example, in a case in Bulgaria, a Belgian father had failed to register his child with the Belgian authorities as required under Belgian law and was no longer in contact with the mother or child. The Bulgarian authorities had registered the child as Belgian, but the child had not actually acquired Belgian nationality. In another case, the root cause of the child’s statelessness was the gender discriminatory nationality law in Iraq, which limits women’s ability to confer Iraqi nationality on their children born abroad, resulting in the child in this case being born stateless in Bulgaria. 3.2.5 Imputed nationality and errors in birth registration In several cases in the research, imputed nationality or mistakes during birth registration contributed to creating or exacerbating risks of statelessness. Information recorded at birth varies from country to country but usually one or more of the child’s nationality, the parents’ nationality(ies), the place of birth of child (and parents), and the names of parents, is recorded. In two cases in Bulgaria, for example, the child’s nationality was incorrectly assumed to be the same as one of the parents without verifying whether the child did or could actually acquire that nationality, thus masking their statelessness and necessitating complex legal casework to rectify the mistakes made in the civil registration process. 3.2.6 Children born in conflict zones In the case of one participating family, the children were born to a national of the country of research in a conflict zone abroad where civil registration systems had collapsed, so their births were never registered. The mother and children were repatriated to the country of research but lacked any basic documentation determining their place of birth or family links, so faced significant difficulties later acquiring these and proving their entitlement to their mother’s nationality. 4. Strategies and approaches to resolving (risks of) statelessness among children in migration Over the course of the project, partners worked with families to document which legal strategies worked to resolve the statelessness issues faced by children and young people in different European countries, and which did not. The research framework guided partners to document the outcome sought in each case; current barriers; anticipated challenges; relevant decision-makers and allies; methods proposed and taken in legal casework and in seeking the views of children and families; what worked well and what didn’t; the outcome achieved; the significance of the case for the partner’s wider work; and whether the family wanted to be