The Plight of the Rightless: Mapping and Understanding Statelessness in Tripoli-V1.3
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Statelessness, Antisocial Behaviour and Violence
35% of stateless persons said they have been arrested or under investigation which is a relatively
high percentage. 22% recognize that they have been involved in violent interactions with state
institutions, in the streets, or at home. This raises the question of the relation between
statelessness on one hand and criminal or violent behaviour on the other. Factor analysis and
Generalised Linear Regression Estimates were used to assess the relation between
statelessness and violence. Measures of violence, statelessness, and fraud were built using factor
analysis combining relevant questions. Then, a stepwise regression was run to predict violence,
using all hypothesised indicators in the survey. Gender, extent of statelessness in the family, fear
from checkpoints, trust in the State and use of a false ID to pass checkpoints or get access to a
hospital turned out to be significant predictors. The overall results produce an R Square of 0.17
with significant coefficients for all predictors except revenue.
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