Preferred term

NOMADS

Used for

  • MOBILE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
  • NOMADIC COMMUNITIES
  • NOMADIC PASTORALISTS
  • TRAVELLERS (NOMADIC PEOPLE)

Scope note

  • Persons without a fixed place of usual residence who move from one site to another, usually according to well-established patterns of geographical mobility.

In other languages

Arabic

Chinese

French

Spanish

URI

http://metadata.un.org/thesaurus/1004431

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