non-citizens. Although they find their own alternative way how to access the rights (Sigona 2015, Sardelić 2017) that are taken away from them when they are deprived of citizenship, they do not enjoy the same level of protected rights as Baltic citizens. In that respect their position is more similar to those deprived of citizenship in the case of Windrush Scandal and some Syrian refugee children. On the other hand, it differs from the position of stateless in the Dominican Republic and Myanmar, where the minorities in question were targeted directly by discriminatory laws. In the case of Roma, due to Romaphobia (McGarry 2017), a form of anti-Roma racism, they were often perceived as less than human. Romaphobia, coupled with longstanding marginalization, contributed to their position as stateless people, which often resembles what Hannah Arendt described as the “abstract nakedness of being nothing but a human” (Arendt 1968: 299300). The position of stateless Roma also shows that their statelessness is never a product of absence of state interventions and law-making or, to paraphrase Soraya Post, the Roma did not become stateless by accident (Post, 2017). References Arendt, H. 1968. The origins of totalitarianism. London: Harcourt Belton, K. 2017. Statelessness in the Caribbean. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. Blitz, B. 2018. The State and the statelessness: The legacy of Hannah Arendt reconsidered. In: T.Bloom, K. Tonkiss and P. Cole eds., Understanding Statelessness, 1st ed. New York City: Routledge, pp.70-83. Csepeli, G. and Simon, D. 2004. Construction of Roma identity in Eastern and Central Europe: perception and self‐identification. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 30(1), pp.129-150. ERRC 2017. Statelessness, Discrimination and Marginalisation of Roma in the Western Bal kans and Ukraine, retrived from: http://www.errc.org/uploads/upload_en/file/roma-belong.pdf ERRC 2018. Statelessness, Discrimination and Marginalisation of Roma in Albania, retrieved from: http://www.errc.org/uploads/upload_en/file/4993_file3_roma-belong-albania-englishlanguage.pdf FRA. 2016. Second European Union Minorities and Discrimination Survey EU-MIDIS II): Roma – selected findings. Institute for Statelessness and Inclusion 2016. Understanding statelessness in the Syria refu gee context, retrieved from: http://www.syrianationality.org/pdf/report.pdf Institute for Statelessness and Inclusion 2018). Causes of Statelessness, retrieved from: http://www.institutesi.org/world/causes.php Kochenov, D. 2007. EU influence on the citizenship policies of the candidate countries: The case of Roma exclusion in the Czech Republic. Journal of Contemporary European Research, 3(2), 124–140. Kochovski, I. 2017. “The applicant, a stateless person” – Roma, statelessness and the Euro pean Court of Human Rights, retrieved from https://www.statelessness.eu/blog/applicantstateless-person-roma-statelessness-and-european-court-human-rights Kuczyńska-Zonik, A. 2017. Non-citizens in Latvia: Is it a Real Problem?. Sprawy http://community.apsanet.org/migrationcitizenship/home 18