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Nomadic Peoples and Alternate Conceptions of Place

2019
AbstractUnder pressure from sedentary majority populations, nomadic peoples face serious threats to their cultural survival and livelihood. Nomadic groups have long faced suspicion and discrimination—as illustrated by the ongoing marginalization of European Roma and Travellers, the Maasai of Tanzania and Kenya, and the Bedouin of the MENA region—and ...
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Nomadic Peoples and Human Rights

2014
Although nomadic peoples are scattered worldwide and have highly heterogeneous lifestyles, they face similar threats to their mobile livelihood and survival. Commonly, nomadic peoples are facing pressure from the predominant sedentary world over mobility, land rights, water resources, access to natural resources, and migration routes.
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The Moving Target: Health Status of Nomadic Peoples

Economic Geography, 1977
The loss of resource productivity affects the health of populations undergoing desertification. One aspect of this loss is the alteration of traditional diets. Key foods drop out of people's diets with dislocation and disruption, causing a reduction in calorie, protein, and vitamin intakes. Traditional foods may not be available, or may be exorbitantly
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Prohibiting Discrimination in Nationality Law against Nomadic Peoples

Abstract Chapter 4 examines the prohibitions under international law against discrimination in the granting of nationality and the extent to which these prohibitions, if properly implemented by states, would effectively prevent nomadic statelessness.
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Nomadic Peoples and Civil Registration under International Law

Abstract Birth registration is currently the only form of civil registration required under international law and is often crucial to preventing statelessness. Examining the experiences with civil registration of the Bedouin, the Tuareg, the Fulani, and the Sama Dilaut in Kuwait, Mali, Côte d’Ivoire, and Malaysia, chapter 3 discusses the
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Nomadic peoples and human rights

Settler Colonial Studies, 2015
This fascinating book is not easy to review as it straddles two disciplines, with distinct discourses and spheres of expertise: jurisprudence (specifically international and human rights law, the a...
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Lifestyle and Livelihood Changes Among Formerly Nomadic Peoples

Ethnic and Indigenous Business Studies
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Nomad Peoples of the Steppes

Nature, 1965
The Royal Hordes Nomad Peoples of the Steppes. By E. D. Phillips. Pp. 144 (141 illustrations). (London: Thames arid Hudson, Ltd., 1965.) 30s. clothback; 15s. paperback.
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People of the Rainbow: A Nomadic Utopia

American Ethnologist, 1999
People of the Rainbow:. Nomadic Utopia. MICHAEL I. NIMAN. Knoxville‐ University of Tennessee Press, 1997. xiv. 274 pp., appendixes, notes, glossary, index, illustrations.
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The nomadic landscape: People in a changing Arctic environment

Geografisk Tidsskrift-Danish Journal of Geography, 2009
Abstract Geografisk Tidsskrift—Danish Journal of Geography 109(2):181–189, 2009 The paper will explore the sense of place in the Thule district, Northern Greenland, including the emotional topography by which people live. The analytical framework is the notion of a nomadic landscape, drawing from the essay on nomadology by Deleuze & Guattari (2004 ...
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