‘Stateless:’ The Dissection of Privilege, Escapism, and Blood Money

A Tale of Extraction Stateless is lesson on privilege and what it means to weaponize it. A heartbreaking tale that is meant to serve as a reflection and critique on detention centers, Stateless pits two people on separate sides of a crisis and viewers watch them submerge in different forms of turmoil. One whose identity is stripped and one whose livelihood is always put into question. What I loved about this show is that it doesn’t spare feelings or realities to make it easier to swallow. You see the corruption face forward. Xenophobia is the merge between racism and entitlement. Detention centers is yet another site where white supremacy gets to reign supreme. Stateless is an entry point where viewers get to see how the system makes lives extra miserable in a place that was already created to be a site of misfortune. While thinking of detention centers, the first thing that comes my mind is POC displacement. White people do not make up the predominant percentage of prisoners in detention centers. While watching Ameer’s side of the story it felt all too familiar. Looking for a better life to support your family, so you seek refuge in a country that you hope would grant mercy. Yet not having money will grant disadvantages, and of course that cements across the series. People imagine that centers like this is filled with criminals and people who have been struggling with morality because that’s how they teach Xenophobia. They market people seeking refuge as if it is a crime. Te…