Groups at risk of Statelessness Some groups of people are particularly at risk of statelessness. These include: Orphaned and abandoned infants and other vulnerable children; People of mixed parentage; Adults who's birth's have never been registered; Undocumented long-term migrants and their children; and Border populations. There is an increasing number of unaccompanied or separated migrant children (USMCs) in South Africa who are placed in the care system through a Children’s Court order and invariably based on the court’s finding that it is in the child’s best interest to remain in South Africa. These children are often undocumented and/or stateless or at risk of statelessness, but there is no legal safeguard for them to obtain citizenship or immigration status in South Africa.