
Yemenis who are born to foreign parents
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Yemenis who are born to foreign parents face institutional discrimination because of their percived lack of purity. Activist Atiaf Alwazir writes that Anyone who has navigated the streets of Yemen will ultimately experience the friendly curiosity of its inhabitants. People are often inquisitive, welcoming, and honest. Political "correctness" does not exist here. Despite the long history of Yemeni traders travelling abroad, immigrating, and forming cross-cultural families, the term "Muwalad" is still used today to describe children born to one parent of another nationality

