Hello to everyone
Today, I am speaking as a stateless person who has lived for many years in a legal vacuum — and as someone who no longer wants to remain silent.
I have experienced statelessness not only as a legal condition, but as a life without a voice. When you have no nationality, no identity, and no clear legal status, you gradually learn to live quietly. You learn not to ask too many questions. You learn not to be visible. You learn that silence feels safer than hope.
For many years, this was my life.
My wife, my child, and I are stateless. We have never belonged to any country, never been protected by any state, and never lived with legal certainty. Because of statelessness, our lives have been shaped by fear, waiting, and unanswered applications.
Through this long and painful experience, I realized something very important:
People like me understand each other without needing explanations.
Stateless and migrant people often cannot speak for themselves — not because they have nothing to say, but because the system does not provide them with a safe space, the language, or the protection needed to speak.
That is why I want to change my role.
I want to be a voice for stateless and migrant people who have lived for years in silence, invisibility, and legal uncertainty — just as I have.
I want to speak because:
I understand the fear of living without documents,
I understand how exhausting constant waiting can be,
I understand what it means to raise a child with no legal future,
And I understand how easily stateless people can be forgotten.
From now on, I do not want my experiences to remain only personal suffering. I want them to become a bridge — between stateless communities and institutions, between silence and protection, between invisibility and recognition.
As an independent statelessness advocate and community focal person, I am ready to support the voices of others, document realities on the ground, and engage responsibly within humanitarian and protection frameworks.
I am not asking for privilege.
For myself and for others who share the same fate, I am asking for visibility, dignity, and the right to be heard
Hello to everyone
Dear
Thank you for sharing your powerful and honest thoughts.
Speaking as someone with lived experience of statelessness, and also as part of this community and team: your words resonate strongly. Many of us recognize and have experienced what you describe: the learned silence, the instinct to stay invisible, the feeling that asking questions can be dangerous and the exhaustion from waiting without certainty. Statelessness is definitely not only a legal gap, but an emotional and social one.
The system in which we live and operate rarely provides safe conditions to speak up about our realities. So your wish to turn personal suffering into a bridge is not just admirable from a personal perspective, but also from a collective one, as it contributes to increasing the visibility, credibility and accountability and advancing towards the meaningful system-change that we need to achieve.
This community space was created with that purpose and we want to reiterate that your voice is welcome here, that your experience is valid expertise and that your desire to act with responsibility and care for others is recognized and respected.
Thank you for trusting this space with your story and your intention. We are looking forward to working together towards amplifying stateless voices, creating safer spaces and pushing collectively for recognition, protection and dignity for stateless people everywhere.
Best regards,
Aleksandra & the Team
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