The Plight of the Rightless: Mapping and Understanding Statelessness in Tripoli-V1.3 Figure 8-Stateless demographic projection Causes of Statelessness The type of statelessness we are dealing with is important to assess as the cases of nonregistered individuals of Lebanese fathers are much easier to resolve than the cases of Maktoum Al Qayd whose father is of unknown origins. The fieldwork reveals that two thirds of the stateless people in Tripoli already have a Lebanese father, which means that most of the cases are people who should have no serious problem regularising their case. Sixty-three percent of the respondents are non-registered stateless individuals born to a Lebanese father.47 A third of these non-registered cases (33%) are due to family problems and more particularly the non-registration of their parents’ marriages. Such respondents have explained that this is often due to the fact that marriage registrations of stateless women and Lebanese men are much more complex and costly, if not impossible, which hinders parents’ ability to register children’s births. Other non-registered cases are due to parents’ negligence (30%) and financial problems (11%). 75% of the stateless have a Lebanese mother and 55% have both, Lebanese father and mother. •67% have Lebanese father •75% have a Lebanese mother •55% have a Lebanese father and a Lebanese mother •28% have Lebanese siblings •43% have Lebanese spouse •Among those who have kids, 24% have Lebanese nationality 47 Stateless persons currently living in Tripoli are distributed as follow: 63% of non-registered, 22% of Maktoum Al Qayd and 9% of under-study. Another 5% were rendered stateless for other reasons such as lost or damaged registries and being born to unknown parents. 31