As the hearing date looms for the Court of Appeal to deliver its decision on the government’s appeal to deny citizenship to overseas-born children of Malaysian mothers and foreign fathers, several mothers have gathered to recount their tales through Malaysia’s allegedly gender-discriminatory laws. 

This includes security guard Lavinder Kaur, who had to be separated from her daughter for over a year during the Covid-19 pandemic over visa issues.

Her daughter, Sarabjit Kaur, who was born in India...