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or all of the following documents; international passport, birth
certificate, national identification card and driver’s licence, and
voter’s card. 25% of the respondents in this group have dependents
that have most of these documents. Only 33% had the required
document of birth certificate to show a bond to the state according to
its laws. The most striking thing about this group is that majority of
the persons in this group know about the concept, from the name of
course, but only a few of them had in-depth knowledge of the
concept. It is one thing to have an idea or decipher the meaning of a
concept from its name and to actually understand the concept and
how it applies, and in the instance of statelessness, the risk that such
a concept pose. As for the documents they possess the same
explanation given above for working adults applies here i.e. socioeconomic reasons prompted them to possess such documents not the
issue of statelessness or the risk of being stateless.
c) Students that are less than 18 years (Children): 90% of this group
do not know about the concept of statelessness and 10% know what
the concept means. 15% state that they ‘have an idea’ (from the word
‘Statelessness’ they can deduce the meaning) they have one or all of
the following documents: international passport, birth certificate and
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