Netflix recently released the trailer of Cate Blanchett, Elise McCredie, and Tony Ayres’ immigration-focused series “Stateless” and it can be made out that the show will not only offer a sharp take on the pressing issues regarding immigration policies but will also offer a lot of drama. Stateless is originally an Australian series which is partly inspired by the real-life story of Cornelia Rau, an Australian permanent resident who was unlawfully detained under the Australian Government’s mandatory detention program.
As per Netflix, “Stateless” is a powerful and timely series about four strangers whose lives collide at an immigration detention center in the middle of the Australian desert. The four strangers around whom the story revolves are – an airline hostess (Yvonne Strahovski) on the run from a dangerous cult, an Afghan refugee (Fayssal Bazzi) and his family fleeing persecution, a young father (Jai Courtney) escaping a dead-end job, and a bureaucrat (Asher Keddie) running out of time to contain a national scandal.
The series highlights Australia’s controversial immigration policies, inhuman treatment of asylum seekers and misappropriation of funds meant for the care of immigrants. The issues focused in this limited series are not unknown to anyone but are often not brought to notice of the common public. This makes it more so important to showcase the human rights violations happening because of these unreasonable immigration policies. Cate Blanchett, the co-creator of the show also serves as an ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
“Stateless has been a labour of love for many years and we could not be more thrilled that it will reach an international audience via Netflix,” Blanchett and fellow co-creators Tony Ayres and Elise McCredie said in a statement. “The issues addressed in the series have universal resonance but have been cloaked in silence and muddied by fear and misinformation. Our hope is that Stateless will generate a global conversation around our systems of border protection and how our humanity has been affected by them.”
Stateless will premier on Netflix on 8th July, 2020. Netflix acquired the global rights to the series in February.
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