‘Stateless’ on Netflix Review

Stateless

Netflix

A limited series inspired by true stories within the Australian Immigration detention, Stateless is heavy.  

Immigration is such an important and divisive topic.  What Cate Blanchett, and her co-creators, have managed to do is put faces to the countless people held in immigration detention.  Every face has a story, and while this is inspired by true events, it is true that every face does have a story.

Immigration is such a heavy topic because you think of what people are willing to do, what they are willing to risk, what they are willing to go through, to get to another country.  At the end of the day, borders are arbitrary.  Why is one person allowed in a country just because they happen to be born there while another person is not?  Borders are literally invisible.  Yet there has to be some sort of laws…

I’m not an immigration expert (clearly) and I don’t have the answers.  But I do think there must be a better way.   

I am: Obsessed