In the Dominican Republic, more than 130,000 people of Haitian descent are currently living without a nationality, after a 2013 court ruling left them stateless. They have been stripped of basic rights such as education, healthcare, employment and social protection. Now, the pandemic, which has had a sweeping effect throughout the whole country, has hit the stateless communities the hardest. Bridget Wooding, Coordinator of the Caribbean Migration and Development Observatory