By all means, Australia is not the only country in the world that employs questionable policies when dealing with migrants and asylum seekers. When the news that an Australian citizen was wrongly detained, Australia was forced to review its policies of dealing with asylum seekers, looking for a more humane way to treat them.īoat asylum seekers are now detained in offshore centres where journalists have no access. One is a former airline hostess from Australia who, following a traumatic event, escapes a suburban cult under a fake identity one is an Afghan asylum seeker who reaches Australia on a boat with his family one is a bureaucrat following orders coming from higher-ranking officials, and one is a man who finds himself working as a security guard at the detention center. Stateless follows the true story of four persons with very different backgrounds who end up in a detention center for asylum seekers in the desert of Australia.
