    2024, including achieving universal birth registration.131 These and other initiatives have reinvigorated CRVS efforts in Asia. Moreover, and following a global trend, many states in the region are making use of the spread of new technologies to implement digital identification management systems, often in combination with biometric identifiers. Yet, coverage and eligibility for inclusion in such systems varies across the region.132 There is potential for these new identification systems to assist with expanding the reach of government services and making them more inclusive. However, there are also risks, especially when new digital identification systems do not consider stateless populations in their design and are then coupled with rules that make proof of legal identity mandatory for accessing rights and services. In contexts where there are discriminatory laws or practices, such an approach may risk intensifying exclusion from basic rights and protections for certain populations, posing new challenges for the struggle against statelessness. This more complex perspective highlights another area in which future research is needed.133 It is increasingly recognized that the perspectives of stateless people ‘must play a central role in advocacy and research related to statelessness’.134 The continuing dominance of simplistic and singular stereotypes and images of stateless persons as ‘invisible’, ‘ghost-like’ and powerless fails to account for their agency in navigating the barriers that noncitizenship present, to value or appreciate their advocacy and its costs,135 or to provide the evidence base needed to develop nuanced and targeted responses to statelessness. In this regard, Cheva-Isarakul’s chapter (Chapter 6) offers a crucial intervention in challenging the ‘dominant and static framing of stateless children by examining the dynamic process through which Shan youth participants in northern Thailand engage See ‘Civil Registration and Vital Statistics in Asia and the Pacific’ (Get in the Picture) <https://getinthepicture.org/crvs-decade> accessed 3 August 2020. 132 Asian Development Bank, Identity for Development in Asia and the Pacific (2016) <www.adb.org/sites/default/files/publication/211556/identity-development-asia-pacific .pdf.> accessed 13 September 2023. 133 See Sperfeldt (n 15) 5–6. 134 Lindsey Kingston and Ekaterina E, ‘Responding to Netflix’s Stateless Series: Misrecognition and Missed Opportunities’ (2023) 5(1) Statelessness & Citizenship Review 4. 135 Deirdre Brennan, ‘Caring about Statelessness: Unpacking the “End Statelessness” Campaigns through a Feminist Ethics of Care’ (Critical Statelessness Studies, May 2021) <https://law .unimelb.edu.au/centres/statelessness/resources/critical-statelessness-studies-blog/caring-abo ut-statelessness-unpacking-the-end-statelessness-campaigns-through-a-feminist-ethics-of-ca re> accessed 13 September 2023. 131 https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009399555.003 Published online by Cambridge University Press