2025 Statelessness & Citizenship Review 7(1) international law that struggles to hold state actors to account for their crimes. Further, the digitisation and universalisation of ID systems and bordering practices, which further alters the international structures of capital and power, can make socio-economic bars close in faster on the excluded and the persecuted. Posing these challenges then is really an invitation to all of us who do anti-statelessness work to put all ears close to the ground and, in these turbulent times, listen harder than we have ever listened before. 30