124 T. MCGEE governments, other international organizations, civil society and stateless groups to form a ‘global coalition’ and increase their collaboration to fight statelessness” (p. 17). At the same time, given the presently uncertain situation regarding UNHCR’s global funding, it remains to be seen what level of resourcing the agency will dedicate to the future of statelessness work. In all cases, questioning the “Ending Statelessness” framing may prove a productive starting point for recalibrating work to support people affected by the issue around the world. Notes 1. For a list of signatories to the two statelessness Conventions: UNHCR, States Parties to the 1954 Convention: https://www.unhcr.org/au/media/states-parties-1954-convention-relating-status-statelesspersons; UNHCR, States Parties to the 1961 Convention: https://www.unhcr.org/media/states-parties- 1961-convention-reduction-statelessness. 2. Hosted at the University of Melbourne: <https://law.unimelb.edu.au/centres/statelessness/engage/gps>. 3. For the pledges: <https://www.unhcr.org/ibelong/results-of-the-high-level-segment-on-statelessness/#:~:text= A%20total%20of%20360%20pledges,by%20international%20and%20regional%20organizations>. 4. This includes interactions through my capacity as an individual member of the European Network on Statelessness since 2017, and as co-coordinator of the MENA Statelessness Network (Hawiati) since 2020. 5. The European Network on Statelessness’ Community Speaker Policy may here serve as a good example of co-designed engagement with stateless people: (Al Khatib, 2021). Acknowledgments I would like to thank my PhD supervisors, Prof. Michelle Foster, Prof. Susan Kneebone and Dr Christoph Sperfeldt. Disclosure statement Ethical approval for the research was granted by the Human Research Ethics Committee at the University of Melbourne (Reference Number: 2021-21009-24523-5). Notes on contributor Thomas McGee is a Max Weber fellow at the European University Institute (EUI)s Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies (RSCAS) and Melbourne Law School honorary fellow. This paper was developed in parallel to his PhD on “Syria”s Changing Statelessness Landscape – 2011 as Critical Juncture” at the Peter McMullin Center on Statelessness at Melbourne Law School. ORCID Thomas McGee http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9192-4169 References Al Khatib, L. (2021, October 12). “Please don’t buy me a plane ticket to present at your event, I don’t have a passport” – The birth of ENS’s community speaker policy. European Network on Statelessness. https://www. statelessness.eu/updates/blog/please-dont-buy-me-plane-ticket-present-your-event-i-dont-have-passport-birth-enss Apple, B., & Bingham, L. (2017). The SDGs: An opportunity to leave no stateless child behind. In Laura van Waas & Amal de Chickera, The world’s stateless children (pp. 295–304). Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion/Wolf Legal Publishers. Back, L., & Quaade, V. (1993). Dream utopias, nightmare realities: Imaging race and culture within the world of Benetton advertising. Third Text, 7(22), 65–80. https://doi.org/10.1080/09528829308576402 Bahram, H. (2021). Towards a stateless standpoint epistemology. Statelessness & Citizenship Review, 3(1), 113–119. https://doi.org/10.35715/scr3001.118 Baluarte, D. (2015). Life after Limbo: Stateless persons in the United States and the role of international protection in achieving a legal solution. Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, 29, 351–389. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2796321 Baluarte, D. (2019). The arrival of “statelessness studies”. Statelessness and Citizenship Review, 1(1), 156–160. https:// doi.org/10.35715/SCR1001.117