     in making sense of their legal predicament and navigating its limitations during their adolescence’. As she observes, a stateless child’s experience ‘is often reduced to a singular representation of complete deprivation without heeding the diverse historical, social and political causes of their statelessness, the varying access to rights in the place they consider home or their personal circumstances, such as the life pressures that change according to their age and life stage. Stateless children are rarely perceived and portrayed as active agents in constructing and determining their own social lives. Instead, they are transmuted into ahistorical, acontextual and generalized subjects with an ostensibly universal experience of total abjection’. This important work not only sheds light on a particular population in Thailand but exemplifies a path for future research that can offer such nuanced and crucial insight. As a whole, more on-the-ground research and interdisciplinary collaborations would be necessary to formulate effective contextualized solutions for the eventual elimination of statelessness in Asia and beyond. This volume aims to be one such contribution in that direction. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009399555.003 Published online by Cambridge University Press