With 'Stateless,' Cate Blanchett tackles the 'human drama' of immigration
Debates over immigration and national identity dominate the political discourse in the Trump-era United States, but many Americans may be unaware that Australia has grappled with similar issues for decades.
That's about to change with the debut of "Stateless," a Netflix series co-created by Cate Blanchett that dives into her home country's treatment of refugees and asylum seekers.
The drama is set during the mid-aughts, as wars in Iraq and Afghanistan sent thousands fleeing to other countries, including Australia, with the hopes of beginning a new life. The six-part series follows the unusual journey of Sofie (Yvonne Strahovski), an Australian flight attendant who gets involved in a cult, suffers a breakdown and mistakenly winds up in an immigration detention center, where she claims to be a German tourist who overstayed her visa.
At the center - in a parched, economically depressed corner of South Australia - she is
