Georgia

Georgia faces the challenge of overcoming intergenerational cycles of non-registration and statelessness among its Roma population. From 2015-2019 the government was working with the Innovations and Reform Centre and UNHCR to facilitate access to ID documents as part of a broader project to reduce and prevent statelessness. The approach typically taken to breaking cycles of intergenerational statelessness is to document the parents first, so they can meet requirements for registering their children. However, children sometimes grow up in the interim, perpetuating the cycle. In Georgia, temporary IDs are issued for street children from the Roma community (as well as stateless Meskhetian Muslims), as a stopgap measure. Whether these break the cycle or place the temporary ID holders in a prolonged state of structural ambiguity remains to be seen.