{"id":13809,"date":"2009-04-01T10:54:47","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T10:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=13809"},"modified":"2017-07-27T12:09:11","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T12:09:11","slug":"am-i-stateless-because-i-am-a-nomad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/am-i-stateless-because-i-am-a-nomad\/","title":{"rendered":"Am I stateless because I am a nomad?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content-header\">\n<p class=\"title\">By Ekuru Aukot<\/p>\n<p class=\"title\"><em class=\"panel-region-separator\">As a pastoralist from Turkana, who am I and where are my nationality and citizenship?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"content-area\">\n<div class=\"panel-fmr-2col-stacked clear-block panel-display\">\n<div class=\"center-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"panel-col-first panel-panel\">\n<div class=\"inside\">\n<div class=\"panel-pane pane-node-body\">\n<div class=\"pane-content\">\n<p>I hail from the Ateker nation, an <em>Itung\u2019a-<\/em>speaking group, bound by ethno-linguistic ties and practising nomadic pastoralism as our main livelihood activity. The Ateker inhabit the borderland area straddling four countries \u2013 Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda.<\/p>\n<p>They occupy the peripheral semi-arid and arid borders of their respective nation-states and are arguably the most marginalised peoples there. This is also one of the most conflict-prone zones in the Horn and East Africa region, with both intra- and inter-ethnic conflicts with other Ateker groups and non-Ateker neighbouring communities. The zone also suffers from weak or absent state institutions.<\/p>\n<p>Download from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fmreview.org\/statelessness\/contents.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forced Migration Review<\/a>: <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"filefield-icon field-icon-application-pdf\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fmreview.org\/sites\/all\/modules\/filefield\/icons\/application-pdf.png\" alt=\"application\/pdf icon\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fmreview.org\/en\/statelessness\/aukot.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf; length=364790\">aukot.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"panel-region-separator\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Ekuru Aukot As a pastoralist from Turkana, who am I and where are my nationality and citizenship? I hail from the Ateker nation, an Itung\u2019a-speaking group, bound by ethno-linguistic ties and practising nomadic pastoralism as our main livelihood activity. The Ateker inhabit the borderland area straddling four countries \u2013 Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda. [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-east-africa","region-kenya","type-academic-articles","item-year-487","item-theme-discrimination","item-theme-ethnic-racial-religious","item-theme-statelessness"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13809"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13823,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13809\/revisions\/13823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}