This paper critically examines the lived experiences of Bhutanese unaccompanied and separated refugee children (UASC) residing in refugee camps in eastern Nepal. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, narrative interviews, and policy analysis, the study explores how these children navigate protracted displacement, legal statelessness, and institutional neglect. Framing the analysis within critical childhood studies, intersectionality, and decolonial thought, the paper reveals how refugee children are rendered both politically invisible and administratively excluded, despite humanitarian narratives of care. It argues that Bhutanese UASC live in a “state-of-nowhere,” where they are denied legal identity, citizenship, psychosocial support, and meaningful inclusion in protection frameworks. The findings expose epistemic and structural violence embedded in current refugee governance and call for a shift toward rights-based, child-centred, and regionally coordinated responses. The study contributes to migration and childhood scholarship by centring the agency and voices of refugee children in one of South Asia’s most protracted and overlooked displacement contexts.