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‘Somewhere to call home’: helping stateless children realise their right to Australian citizenship
An unknown number of children born in Australia to stateless parents are entitled to citizenship, but their families don’t know about it
Muhammad and Sumaiya* have never known a place to call home.
- Ben Doherty
- The Guardian
Denied citizenship in their homeland Myanmar, amid the broader violent oppression of their Rohingya minority, the couple arrived in Australia by boat in 2013, and have lived since with…
The precarity of statelessness was not a status they wanted to pass on to their three children.
But for their youngest, Australian-born son, they discovered – through sheer good fortune in…