Suzan El Tahhan Bidoons: A Statelessness Plight in Kuwait ‫مجلة الدراسات القانونية واالقتصادية‬ 2- Restrictions on Property Rights: Bidoons are reportedly prevented from officially renting or owning property. These property rights restrictions may leave stateless populations vulnerable to eviction.32In addition, they are not permitted to register a vehicle or obtain a telephone line.33 3- Right to Marriage: Difficulties in registering marriages between Bidoons couples or a Bidoons with a Kuwaiti citizen, which leaves the pair without legal proof of their marriage, have always been reported. This, in turn, means that women lose the recourse to courts for disputes involving divorce, maintenance in addition to child custody.34 The vulnerable position of stateless women makes many of them victims of sexual trafficking and coerced marriages where a Bidoon woman marries any person who carries a nationality through whom she could acquire a nationality. On the other hand, statelessness can drive families apart. The State under the immigration laws may refuse the re-entry of a Bidoon family member or treat the Bidoons husband of a Kuwaiti woman as a foreigner who requires a "sponsor" to enter or remain in the country. Many of the Bidoons families I interviewed during my internship in Jordan, when asked if they would return to Kuwait, said that this wasn't even an available option. A Kuwaiti mother married to a Bidoons man, who left them in Jordan and fled to the United Kingdom, mentioned that her children wouldn't be allowed into Kuwait being Bidoons after their father. 32 UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), The situation of stateless persons in the Middle East and North Africa, October 2010, P.24, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/4cea28072.html [accessed 22 December 2015]. 33 United Kingdom: Home Office, Country Information and Guidance - Kuwaiti Bidoons, February 2014, P.34, available at: https://www.refworld.org/pdfid/52f0b7b04.pdf [accessed 5 February 2019]. 34 UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), The situation of stateless persons in the Middle East and North Africa, October 2010, P.28, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/4cea28072.html [accessed 22 December 2015]. 16