     prejudices could create blind spots for governments that seek more democratic and progressive causes. 1.5.4 Intersectionality and Vulnerabilities Contributions to this volume attest to the fact that statelessness can rarely be reduced to a single cause, nor are its manifestations and consequences one-dimensional. Rather what the authors reveal throughout this book is that causes of statelessness frequently intersect, often affecting already marginalized populations across various social, economic, cultural and political planes. Cheva-Isarakul’s insightful ethnographic account in Chapter 6 of Shan youth experiences in northern Thailand demonstrates how factors such as age, ethnicity and migration affect how statelessness is locally reproduced and experienced. Her research demonstrates how these stateless children, who previously may have been ‘relatively oblivious of their status’, face a particular set of stresses and vulnerabilities as they transition to adolescence and adulthood. By capturing the process of how these youths ‘learn to be stateless’, the author illuminates the emotional and practical burden of statelessness and how affected individuals exercise their agency and resources to manoeuvre their existence as stateless persons. The relevance of migration, particularly in the context of the creation of borders, as a cause of statelessness was explained above. Yet forced migration across the region, such as in the context of the Rohingya crisis, constitutes an ongoing intersecting vulnerability in this context. The lack of frameworks and governance in relation to refugee protection across the region121 leaves stateless refugees particularly vulnerable to a serious deprivation of rights and exploitation. Razali’s chapter reveals the heightened vulnerability of stateless refugee Rohingya children residing predominantly in Bangladesh and Malaysia. While it is well understood that statelessness can lead to a range of legal, social and economic disabilities and exclusions, in Chapter 9, Brunt, Acciaioli and Clifton offer an original and insightful analysis of the impact of intersecting vulnerabilities in the form of cultural appropriation and exploitation. In their exploration of the seafaring indigenous Bajau Laut community of Sabah, Malaysia, they observe that lack of legal status concomitantly brings about a lack of political and economic status 121 See relevant subregional chapters in Cathryn Costello, Michelle Foster, and Jane McAdam (n 23). https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009399555.003 Published online by Cambridge University Press