Tienshi Lara Chen discusses her lived experience of statelessness and how this led her to research and assist other stateless people in Asia
Chen was born in Japan to parents from Taiwan with ROC citizenship. When Japan switched diplomatic relations from the ROC to the PRC in 1972 her family became stateless
https://www.melbourneasiareview.edu.au/interview-i-was-stateless-in-japan-for-32-years/
Abdallah A. lived in Germany since he was two months old and last year gained German citizenship. But now he’s been stripped of it because of pro-Palestinian Instagram posts, in a disturbing legal case that points to the rise of citizenship-on-probation.
"The Convergence of Two Sins:
These two events, (1) the myth of #statelessness and (2) the #immunity from legal liability, fed each other. The fantasy of a separate cyberspace provided the ideological cover for the exceptional legal treatment worldwide. Why burden these pioneers with old-world laws if they were building a new world?"
https://circleid.com/posts/thirty-years-of-original-sin-of-digital-and-ai-governance
In February 1996, a libertarian myth of cyberspace and sweeping US platform immunity collided, hardwiring digital exceptionalism. Three decades on, that original sin still shields tech and AI from accountability, with legal and social consequences.
A Bajau family in Labuan lost their citizenship over old registration issues, leaving them stateless despite growing up here. Yet seven foreign-born “heritage” players accused of forged documents were fast-tracked into citizenship.
The family has lost access to aid, work, and even schooling for a child marked “belum ditentukan.”
This is statelessness in Malaysia: people who belong here treated like outsiders.
#statelessness #injustice #Malaysia
https://www.malaysiakini.com/read4free/762062/AHci03oA_#stateless-bajau-family-questions-treatment-cites-heritage-players
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