2022 Statelessness & Citizenship Review 4(1) territory. Such recognition of the shared parent–child aspect (where children may, for instance, inherit or accrue entitlements, such as the legal right to enter and reside in a country owing to a parent’s status there) has enabled an interpretation where stateless children born outside the country of nationality or former habitual residence of their parent(s) can be conceived, at the time of refugee status determination, as having a country of former habitual residence within the meaning of the refugee definition, notwithstanding that they have never before resided in that territory. This is possible in the context of the forward-looking assessment of concurrent yet individually assessed family claims that hypothesises the child’s presence, together with their parent(s), in the country of former habitual residence of their parent(s), in tandem with considerations of potential returnability and risk of persecution upon return. 32