Nomadic "Mobile" People

Ms. Chatty tells us a factual story about people passed by, overlooked, neglected, not part of the new oil-rich status of Oman and its neighboring lands. Chatty's concern is the efforts of various governments to force nomads to live in communities instead of continuing to roam the countrysides. "Advocates for nomadic communities around the world have recommended mobile solutions to pastoral development needs for 20 years or more. This notion, that state assistance should be built into and around the spatial strategies of pastoral peoples, flies in the face of nearly all development efforts in the twentieth century. Rather than seeking nomadic solutions, governments, international aid agencies, and nongovernmental organizations are adamant in their efforts to settle pastoral communities and to create peasants and laborers from herders" (Robbins 448). For the first time, a country tried to implement a specific program meant to benefit the Nomads, and make them e

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Approximate Word count = 973
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page)

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