16 Albarazi Detention generally takes place with the objective of deporting the individual, despite the reality that in most cases this is impossible because there is nowhere to deport them to. This result of the inability of ‘governments to recognise statelessness as a significant issue has resulted in many individuals being detained indefinitely.”10 This happens both in a migratory context, such as in Australia, which has no tailored policy of dealing with stateless persons in detention or the indefinite detention of the Rohingya in neighbouring countries to which they have fled,11 but also with in situ stateless populations such as the case in Jordan. Um Khaled from Jordan talks about how: My son has been arrested twice for not having any documents. The first time they only kept him for two days, but the second time for 16 days as it was his second offence. What is his offence? He is begging for these documents.12 Deportation is an additionally troubling notion that disrupts family unity. Although in most cases the deportation of a stateless individual is impossible, precisely because of their status, there remain many examples of precarious situations in which this has taken place. One high profile example of such a case is the one of Ahmed Abd AlKhaled – a bidoon from the United Arab Emirates. In 2009, the UAE had negotiated a deal with the Comoros Islands where some of its stateless community were able to acquire Comorian passports, despite having no links there. They were told this would legitimize their stay in the UAE and therefore make it easier for them to naturalize in the future. Abd Alkhaled had been targeted due to his active role as someone who criticizes regime policies in the UAE, and in 2012 the government deported him, by using his Comorian ID, to Thailand, where he remains.13 10 11 12 13 Equal Rights Trust, Unravelling Anomaly: Detention, Discrimination and the Protection Needs of Stateless Persons, July 2010, 174: http://www.equalrightstrust.org/ertdocument bank/UNRAVELLING%20ANOMALY%20small%20file.pdf. Ibid, 174. An interview conducted with a Jordanian woman (February 2013) as part of the Women’s Refugee Commission Our Motherland; Our Country project. For more information on this see Human Rights Watch, UAE: Free Blogger Activist, 28 May 2012, available at: http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/05/28/uae-free-blogger-activist. and Financial Times, UAE’s Stateless Acquire Foreign Passports, 4 June 2012 available at http:// www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8abfc14a-a8aa-11e1-be59-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2h7Kw1LLW. tilburg law review 19 (2014) 11-19