Human Rights And Statelessness I N P E N I N S U L AR M AL AYS I A List of Figures Figure 1 Much attention has been paid to understanding broad, macro policies and legal frameworks surrounding stateless persons. Less attention has been paid to understanding the intersectional lived experiences of stateless persons, which involves understanding their relationship to society, policies, the legal system, and economic life 4 Figure 2 Process flow of statelessness Figure 3 Geographical spread of participants in this study 13 Figure 4 Sample Certificate of Registration to register citizens of the Federation of Malaya under Article 16 of the Constitution of the Federation of Malaya 52 Figure 5 Citizenship determination infographic from the Ministry of Home Affairs’ Twitter account 71 Figure 6 A sample birth certificate for an abandoned child with missing information 75 Figure 7 Types of identity cards in Malaysia 106 Figure 8 Types of birth certificates in Malaysia 111 Figure 9 Sample of adoption certificate as a form of identification 112 Figure 10 Stages of citizenship application process through JPN 146 Figure 11 Citizenship application ecosystem 150 Figure 12 Vicious cycle of statelessness and inability to break it 153 Figure 13 The MDS graph that depicts the relationships of all of the human rights themes relative to each other in the dataset 197 xiv 5