Statelessness, Trauma and Mental Well-being surfaced and not silenced and forgotten. From a research perspective, we support the view that ‘enabling stateless people’s voices to be heard more strongly and more widely is a fundamental requirement for a better understanding of the problem of statelessness and how to tackle it’.50 We strongly acknowledge that engaging with stateless people's voices and lived experiences can strengthen advocacy and policy because it informs balanced debates and helps in the person-centred identification of needs, gaps, and solutions in the resolution of statelessness. In securing a better future for them, targeted funding, and dedicated support is crucial.51 We should be cautious not to discredit single voices because they can also provide insights to increase our understanding of some complexities around statelessness and enable further opportunities for these to be strengthened, refuted, or clarified. In as much as there is increasing research on traumatic events and interventions being universal phenomena,52 there is a need to investigate culture-specific manifestations of trauma, as exhibited by stateless persons in different contexts as well as cultural transformative ways to identify local idioms of distress and explanatory models of somatic symptoms. This paper is based on a review of literature; hence, empirical studies are recommended to understand statelessness-related traumas based on lived experiences and the systematic rights violations. This would give voice to this silenced yet vulnerable population and to identify what justice means to them. VII. CONCLUSION In this paper, we argue that statelessness, whether de jure or de facto has traumatic effects on the individuals and families. Mental health distress for stateless persons may be mitigated by interventions targeting environmental stressors and risk factors (pre-, during and post-statelessness, if applicable) to promote well-being. Policymakers and activists should work collaboratively with mental health practitioners to broaden their understanding of effective, holistic interventions that include tackling psychosocial and emotional distresses brought about by statelessness. The authors hope that this study will inspire additional efforts in understanding and incorporating a critical trauma-informed lens influencing mental well-being toward the development of more nuanced and transformative multi-level and multi-systemic interventions. Ieksejs Ivashuk ‘Tackling statelessness: The fundamental importance of stateless people’s voices’ (2022) 70 FMR 13 at 14, available at https://www.fmreview.org/issue70/ivashuk, accessed on 05 November 2022. 51 Katie Robertson & Sarah Dale ‘A place to call home’ Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness (2021), available at https:// law.unimelb.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/3645547/StatelessChildrenReport.pdf, accessed on 05 November 2022. 52 Andrew Riley et al. (2017) op cit note 9 at para 1. 50 55