2021 Statelessness & Citizenship Review 3(2) identities, such as when they were labeled as stateless and not as Palestinian by the SMA. Standpoint theory was deployed as the basis for understanding the relationship between this group of stateless refugees and these labels. While the research found that, even though the labelling process was largely non-participatory, both as a manifestation for epistemic agency and as a vehicle for epistemic justice in statelessness and refugee research, standpoint theory has offered an indispensable lens through which we have accessed the multiple strategies that the interviewees adopted to accept, reject, resist or negotiate their re/de-labelling throughout their journey. 346

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