Marianne Hirsch, Director of the Center for the Study of Social Difference (CSSD), wrote about her experience as a "stateless" child and the importance of protecting the rights of those who have received legal status through DACA and those who qualify to apply.

"At 11, I left communist Romania with my parents. Upon our emigration, our citizenship was revoked; the state I.D. card replaced by a little booklet with our pictures, a travel permit. On the paper, our nationality was marked as 'stateless.'" - Marianne Hirsch

Read Hirsch's article in the Los Angeles Review of Books here.