Lara Tienshi CHEN is a Professor of Waseda University / Founder of NPO Stateless Network. Lara was born and raised in Japan, lived as a stateless person for over 30 years. After completing her Ph.D. in International Political Economy, she started researching the lives of Stateless people from an Anthropological approach in order to deepen her understanding of this issue and to make apparent the disconnect between the laws regarding statelessness and reality of people’s lived experience. She published Stateless (NUS Press) which is based on her own experience and her research.