UUM Journal of Legal Studies, 13, No. 1 (January) 2022, pp: 345–380 This review of the Hansard records revealed that in the absence of a legal definition for stateless children in Malaysia and to this day, there has been no specific law or policy related to stateless children. Therefore, it would seem that the existence of stateless children in the country was not recognized by the government. As a consequence of this state of affairs, several human rights issues related to stateless children, especially on their rights to education and citizenship could not be addressed fairly in accordance with the law. (ii) Categorization Based on the analysis carried out on the Hansards and reports, there seemed to be no clear demarcation of the categorization and definition of the different migrant populations in Malaysia, i.e. the refugees, asylum seekers and stateless people, as well as the migrants living in civil society in Malaysia. According to Lumayag (2016), the term ‘undocumented children’ referred “to the children who neither hold any form of documentation to prove that they are legal citizens of Malaysia nor have any documentation as a foreign national” (p.193). These children seldom or have never travelled outside their existing geographical location, including to their parents’ home country. The author has stated that the difficulty faced in Malaysia was that there was no precise data on stateless children. In Malaysia, stateless children had no documentation to prove their identity or citizenship. Hence, they were often referred to as undocumented children (Lumayag, 2016, p.193). Therefore, the term ‘undocumented children’ in this article is used interchangeably to refer to stateless children in Malaysia. For the purpose of this article, further research and interviews were conducted with several respondents from selected government departments, such as the Ministry of Home Affairs (MOHA), the Department of Social Welfare (JKM), the National Security Council (MKN), the Attorney General’s Chambers (AGC), and Ministry of Education (MOE). The following are some of the statements and responses given by Ketiga.DR 8.11.2018 Bil.44. Pg. 28. http://www.parlimen.gov.my/files/hindex/ pdf/DR-08112017.pdf#page=44&zoom=70&search=stateless%20children>. 350