AHMR African Human Mobilty Review - Volume 8 No 3, SEP-DEC 2022 engaged with topics such as gender, the generational impacts of statelessness, legal protections, the application of immigration laws and detention, mental health, and climate change. Some of the articles in this issue examine situations of statelessness broadly on the continent, with a focus on Southern Africa. Other articles analyse aspects of statelessness in specific states. While it is correct to view the problem of statelessness mostly as a failure of law and policy as well as a result of discrimination, the articles also broach the possibilities of “solutions from below” whereby stateless persons themselves can shape the improvement of their situations. Unfortunately, globally, close to 20 countries continue to have legislation that does not allow women to pass their nationality to their children on the same basis as men.29 There is also a possibility that women may be discriminated against in their ability to confer a nationality to a spouse, or to acquire, change, and retain their nationality. It is hence no surprise that gender-based discrimination is ‘a leading cause of statelessness worldwide’, which the article by Beninger and Manjoo firmly underscores with an anchor on Africa. Their article, richly substantiated, makes a strong case for the challenges that stateless persons, especially women, face in ‘exercising a range of internationally protected civil, political, social, and economic rights’. As such, the authors do not shy away from locating the gender gaps in international laws on statelessness. As the article zooms on Southern Africa, the relevant regional and sub-regional instruments (including the Draft Protocol on Nationality) benefit from a gender-lens exposé; indeed, it might come as a surprise to learn that ‘even the Maputo Protocol provides an exception allowing states to retain gender discriminatory laws with respect to passing nationality to children’. The authors’ overall assessment is that there is progress in some areas of the law (both international and national), especially in reforming gender-discriminatory laws; at the same time, the article details ongoing challenges in bridging the gap of statelessness due to gender discrimination gap. Warria and Chikadzi contribute a psychosocial approach to a predominantly legal examination of statelessness in Africa. This approach draws attention to the stress and trauma experienced by stateless persons as individuals. Thus, it also underscores the humanity and personhood of a stateless person - something which is often underrepresented in discussions of stateless persons as a group. Statelessness affects the ability of individuals to meet their basic needs, access services such as education and healthcare and realise their human rights. The authors demonstrate the difference between big ‘T’ trauma and little ‘t’ trauma by emphasising how dayto-day traumas (little ‘t’ traumas) negatively affect stateless persons. The article uses a case study of a young man in South Africa to illustrate the cumulative effects of little ‘t’ traumas. Acknowledging the stress and trauma as a result of statelessness should be part not only of understanding the problem, but of pursuing solutions to it. In this regard, the authors advocate for a holistic and collaborative approach among policy29 8 See Equal Nationality Rights ‘The problem’ (2019), available at https://equalnationalityrights.org/the-issue/the-problem