that can fly everywhere I want in the sky.” "My life has changed. Now I’ve become a bird When UNHCR met her in 2015, Artee Ma-Yer was a stateless student in northern Thailand. She shared her dreams and challenges in a workshop with stateless youth in Chiang Rai...
Statelessness in France A stateless person is ‘a person who is not considered as a national by any State under the operation of its law’. In more simple terms, someone who is stateless is someone who does not have the nationality of any country. This status has been...
“When you lose all your document, it is as if life stops”. PARIS, FRANCE – October 21. Yannick Vivet was born in Cameroon in 1979 and grew up there. His Belgian father passed him his Belgian citizenship. He moved to Paris in 2003 and has lived there ever since. He...
PARIS, FRANCE – October 20. The Adzovic family is of Roma, Muslim, and Montenegrin origin. Their family suffered a lot of discrimination for a long period of time. Silvana (the mother) became stateless in 2004 when the Montenegrin authorities told her she did not...
“…of course I would choose French nationality”. PARIS, FRANCE – October 20. Victoria was born in 1989 in Tikhoretsk, in Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, USSR where she stayed until 1991, which is when she and her family moved to Kazakhstan. She has been...
