{"id":277,"date":"2011-12-01T13:48:46","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T13:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grenier.co.uk\/?p=277"},"modified":"2012-08-29T10:20:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-29T10:20:00","slug":"stateless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grenier.co.uk\/?p=277","title":{"rendered":"The state we&#8217;re in"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_278\" style=\"width: 246px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/grenier.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Screen-Shot-2011-12-01-at-13.37.00.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-278\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-278 \" title=\"Screen Shot 2011-12-01 at 13.37.00\" src=\"http:\/\/grenier.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Screen-Shot-2011-12-01-at-13.37.00-236x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"236\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/grenier.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Screen-Shot-2011-12-01-at-13.37.00-236x300.png 236w, https:\/\/grenier.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Screen-Shot-2011-12-01-at-13.37.00.png 440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-278\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The finished report<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s over a decade since I left the Refugee Council, where my final job was as editor of iNexile, the organisation&#8217;s monthly magazine. While I was there, I was also in charge of producing their publications, writing, creating, proofreading and editing research reports, information leaflets and fundraising materials.<\/p>\n<p>Although I&#8217;ve not been working in the &#8216;sector&#8217;, I&#8217;ve retained my interest in refugee issues and was delighted to proofread the latest report from Asylum Aid and UNHCR (which weighed in at over 180 pages). Working to a tight deadline, and not helped by an apparent incompatibility issue between my version of Word 08 and Lion OS (repeated crashes, repeated expletives, repeated cups of coffee), I managed to get the final version back to Asylum Aid in time.<\/p>\n<p>Statelessness affects millions of people across the world: they have no &#8216;official&#8217; state, no papers, are not recognised as belonging to any country. For those in the UK in this position, it can mean a life in perpetual limbo. One of the interviewees, a Belarussian, tells how his life &#8220;started in the Russian Gulag, and now I am stuck in this gulag. Give me a travel document and I will leave immediately. If I am undesirable here, then okay, but please allow me to go out&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s one of a number of shocking stories that can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asylumaid.org.uk\/data\/files\/publications\/174\/Mapping_Statelessness.pdf\">in the final report. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proofreading a major new report on stateless refugees in the UK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":278,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grenier.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grenier.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grenier.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grenier.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grenier.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/grenier.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280,"href":"https:\/\/grenier.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions\/280"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grenier.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grenier.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grenier.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grenier.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}