photo © Edo Landwehr United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees The Hague, November 2011 This study investigates the situation of stateless persons in the Netherlands. UNHCR has reviewed all available statistical information and scrutinized Dutch law and policy in order to shed light on the complex and hidden issue of statelessness. Numerous stateless persons in the Netherlands were interviewed in an attempt to provide the phenomenon of statelessness with a human face. www.unhcr.nl