Human Rights And Statelessness I N P E N I N S U L AR M AL AYS I A would be concealed by changing the names, locations, and parties that may be mentioned during the interview. For Zoom interviews, the video function would not be utilised by the participants and the interview would only be recorded aurally. All recordings of the interviews would be kept in password protected folders on the researchers’ computers and destroyed 14 days after the interview is transcibed. Protections surrounding mental health and physical distress In the event that certain questions were distressing for the participants, all interviewers were given basic psychological first aid training to pick up signs of distress and to respond appropriately, either through active listening and practices surrounding empathy, or through a referral list of experts and professionals who could help aid the participants. Participants who were deemed to need it were offered information on avenues to attend counselling with mental health practitioners or social workers. 1.8 Literature review In reviewing the literature on statelessness in Malaysia, we found that there were more studies that focus on statelessness in Peninsular Malaysia, compared to studies on statelessness in East Malaysia. We found 20 studies that focus on statelessness in Peninsular Malaysia, as compared to 13 studies on statelessness in East Malaysia, particularly amongst the Bajau Laut community and Filipino stateless refugee community in East Malaysia. We used the following phrases “stateless Malaysia”, “statelessness Malaysia”, “right to citizenship Malaysia”, “isu kewarganegaraan Malaysia”, and “orang tanpa kewarganegaraan Malaysia” to search for these studies in English and Bahasa Malaysia across Google Scholar, Research Gate, Research Rabbit, and other web search engines on scholarly literature. Table 4 illustrates the breakdown of the academic articles found, which include a mix of peer-reviewed articles published in international journals and non-peer-reviewed publications such as Malaysian university journal articles, working papers, and students’ dissertations. For articles on Peninsular Malaysia, 50% of the articles in English are published in peer-reviewed international journals whereas 100% of the articles in 20