By Cecily Hilleary

According to Refugees International, stateless people can be found all over the world – the Roma in Europe, Palestinian refugees, minority Muslims in Asia. In Kuwait and other countries of the Arabian Peninsula, the stateless are called Bidun, which translates literally from Arabic as “without.” Some Bidun are descendants of nomadic Bedouins who roamed the deserts of the Gulf long before modern borders were established. After Kuwait achieved independence in the early 1960s, many Bidun failed to register, for one reason or another, to apply for citizenship, a concept largely alien to nomadic peoples.

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