ChaChapter 1: Nationality and Statelessness Additionally, there is little evidence of a feeling of a unified struggle between different stateless groups in the region. The stateless populations of the Gulf, for example, would be unlikely to perceive their situation or problems as mutual to the stateless in Lebanon or in Egypt, despite sharing the same legal status for the purposes of international law and the protection of the same international standards. Even within one country, there is often little unity within the stateless persons themselves. For instance, in Lebanon, the Palestinians do not see their situation as common with that of the country’s other stateless people – and vice versa.24 This can even have the effect of suppressing the needs of smaller, less organised or less vocal stateless populations – for example in Kuwait there are also other stateless people in the country besides the group known as Bidoon, but they cannot identify themselves with the discourse surrounding the Bidoon and face even greater marginalisation. It would be exaggerated to suggest that a common terminology would immediately herald a mutual understanding of the problem of statelessness across the region, cultivate a sense of community between 24 - This is clearly apparent from the interviews with the different groups affected by statelessness in Lebanon – and the different stakeholders pressing their cause – undertaken in the course of doctoral research by Jason Tucker in 2012. J. Tucker, Challenging the Tyranny of Citizenship: Practices of Global Citizenship of those Addressing Statelessness in Lebanon, doctoral thesis completed in 2013 (on file with the author). 27