The Nationality and Statelessness of Nomadic Peoples Under International Law

Heather Jean Alexander is a human rights lawyer and an expert on statelessness, nationality, refugee law, climate displacement, and human rights. Heather has fifteen years of experience working with refugees and stateless people in Côte d'Ivoire, Australia, Gabon, Chad, Sri Lanka, Kosovo, and the United States, including with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). She has worked as a researcher for Carleton University, the University of Melbourne, the European University, and the US State Department. Heather was a founding board member of United Stateless, an advocacy network for stateless people in the United States, and is a current board member of the Canadian Centre on Statelessness.

• 1: Introduction2: Antinomadic Bias and Nomadic Perspectives in Academia3: Nomadic Peoples and Civil Registration under International Law4: Prohibiting Discrimination in Nationality Law against Nomadic Peoples5: The Right to a Nationality for Indigenous Persons6: Identifying Nomadic Persons as Stateless for the Purposes of a Solution under International Law7: Conclusion