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.

List of contents

Introduction 1. The Elimination of the Nomads: Colonialism, Extinction and Persecution 2. Mobility: Sedentarisation, Statehood, and Freedom of Movement 3. Nomadic Territories: From terra nullius to collective Land Right 4. Mobile Services: Access to Education, Health, and Water 5. Nomadic Identity: Stigmatisation, Participation, and Cultural rights 6. Nomadic Development: Globalisation, Conservation and Consent Conclusion

About the author

Jérémie Gilbert is Reader in Law and the School of Law and Social Sciences, University of East London

Product details

• Authors: Jeremie Gilbert, Jérémie Gilbert, Jeremie (University of East London Gilbert
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.03.2014
• EAN: 9780415526968
• ISBN: 978-0-415-52696-8
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Routledge Research in Human Rights Law
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Civil law, civil procedural law; Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, LAW / General, LAW / International, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Treaties, International Relations, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Human rights, civil rights, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law, LAW / Indigenous Law & Legal Systems