Nomadic Peoples

Nomadic Peoples

Nomadic Peoples and Human Rights

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. Adding to these traditional problems, rapid growth in the extractive industry and the need for the exploitation of the natural resources are putting new strains on nomadic lifestyles. This book provides an innovative rights-based approach to the issue of nomadism looking at issues including discrimination, persecution, freedom of movement, land rights, cultural and political rights, and effective management of natural resources. Jeremie Gilbert analyses the extent to which human rights law is able to provide protection for nomadic peoples to perpetuate their own way of life and culture. The book questions whether the current human rights regime is able to protect nomadic peoples, and highlights the lacuna that currently exists in international human rights law in relation to nomadic peoples. It goes on to propose avenues for the development of specific rights for nomadic peoples, offering a new reading on freedom of movement, land rights and development in the context of nomadism.

Sedentarization Among Nomadic Peoples in Asia and Africa

Introduction: Studies of Sedentarization / Kazunobu Ikeya -- 1. Prehistoric Transitions to Sedentarization and Agriculture in Temperate and Tropical Regions / Hiroo Nasu -- 2. Maritime Diaspora and Creolization: Genealogy of the Sama-Bajau in Insular Southeast Asia / Kazufumi Nagatsu -- 3. "Sedentarization" of Transhumant Herders: A Case of Sheep Herders of East Nepall / Kazuyuki Watanabe -- 4. Decline and Restructuring of Gypsies' Nomadism in France: Beyond the Nomadic/Sedentary Binary / Ryoko Sachi-Noro -- 5. Mobility and Sedentarization among the Philippine Agta / Tessa Minter -- 6. Population Dynamics among the Orang Asli of Peninsular Malaysia / Shingo Odani -- 7. Sedentarization and Landscape Change among the Mlabri in Thailand / Kazunobu Ikeya and Shinsuke Nakai -- 8. Sedentarization of Nomadic Shifting Cultivators: The Majangir of Lowland Ethiopia / Ren'ya Sato -- 9. Not foragers, not not-foragers: The Case of the Omaheke Jul' hoansi / Velina Ninkova -- 10. Living Without the Forest: Adaptive Strategy of Orang Rimba / Adi Prasetijo -- 11. Reconsidering the Spatiality of Nomadic Pastoralists in East African Pastoral Society / Shinya Konaka -- 12. Sedentarization and the Creation of Alternative Livelihood among Saho Pastoralists in the Qohaito Plateau of Eritrea / Robel Haile -- 13. Sedentarization and Nomadism among the Penan of Sarawak / Kentaro Kanazawa