Statelessness and COVID-19 that begin with being able to access the internet or having the proper equipment, such as computers or phones, to attend class. 7 She also documents the heroic efforts that stateless Bidoon persons in Kuwait have in working in healthcare and contributing to the fight against the spread of COVID-19, only to still be denied any hope that they will receive citizenship. 8 In many communities around the world, the pandemic is experienced more harshly than others, and despite the contributions stateless persons make in fighting the pandemic, they are often the last to be thought of when discussions about public health measures and recovery are taking place. Second, access to health care was a common theme. With regards to accessing services that are not related to COVID-19, Frédérique Chabot writes how stateless and undocumented persons do not have the same means to access alternative resources for reproductive health care since Canada does not provide equal and comprehensive access to abortions. 9 Chabot, through her work with Action Canada, documents how the pandemic is seeing stateless and undocumented women at greater risk of seeking unsafe procedures or being denied the help they need. 10 Anne Baltazar and Amanda Cheong discuss how linguistic diversity, illiteracy and consumption of information via different platforms make communication of public health measures with stateless persons in Sabah, Malaysia more difficult. 11 Areej Alshammiry discusses the tragic consequences of not addressing the mental health of stateless communities with an increase in suicides. She notes that while the world has seen an increase in mental health issues due to the pandemic, this is exacerbated in stateless communities because of the inability to access work, services and assistance due to their lack of status. 12 This brings me to the final common thread. Each commentary discusses how the lack of status is not only the fundamental reason why stateless and undocumented persons face abuse, exploitation, poverty and other challenges but how their status is politically constructed. Yvonne Su, Tyler Valiquette and Yuriko Cowper-Smith write how the influx of undocumented Venezuelan LGBTQI+ asylum seekers in Brazil is a particularly vulnerable population as a result of their ‘politically produced precarity’ that overlaps with the precarity caused by the pandemic. 13 Frédérique Chabot and Action Canada support the Status for All campaign in Canada, arguing that immigration and citizenship status would fundamentally change the way in which people would be able to access the limited reproductive health care services equally. 14 Areej Alshammiry discusses the tactics Kuwait is using to identify Bidoon as foreigners rather than long-standing members of the community deserving of citizenship. 15 Saifullah Muhammad and Yuriko Cowper-Smith discuss the urgency in addressing the status of Rohingya in Bangladesh, given that many do not have exit visas or refugee status and there is 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Alshammiry (n 4) 127. ibid 128–29. Chabot (n 3) 143. ibid 146. Baltazar and Cheong (n 5) 133–34. Alshammiry (n 4) 128–29. Su, Valiquette and Cowper-Smith (n 2) 157. Chabot (n 3) 146–47. Alshammiry (n 4) 124. 121