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The term nomadism is used to designate a lifestyle that implies the permanent transfer from one place to another and not establishment Definitive in no space in terms of habitat. Although nomadism is much more characteristic of some types of animals than of the human being, this has also been known to be a nomadic animal for a long time in its history. Nomadism exists today as a critical phenomenon related to the different complexities of today's society, with the excess of population over the spaces available to live, with cultural issues and with attitudes of discrimination Y conflict between diverse peoples.

The period in which the human being was characterized by being exclusively nomadic was the one that began Prehistory and which became known as Paleolithic. At this time, the human being had not yet developed the means that would allow him to provide his own. food without depending on the availability of the environment that surrounded it. Thus, he had to move and relocate permanently whenever the

resources the space he was in was exhausted. His dwellings were therefore very precarious and perhaps even simple natural forms that served as a refuge (caves, holes, etc.). Such a situation would end with the invention of agriculture and the emergence of the sedentary lifestyle.

We can say that a large part of the current population maintains sedentary life traits. This means that man no longer needs to move from one space to another except for voluntary reasons: modern life It allows you to have in your own fixed home with all the services and basic elements to carry out his daily life.

However, the different political, economic and cultural crises continue to generate in many peoples the need to move permanently from one place to another in search of protection, safety or means to live. Refugees are today the clearest representatives of this situation since their lifestyle does not allow them to have a fixed home or provide themselves with those basic elements feeding. This situation is reproduced especially in a large part of the African continent, in the Middle East and in some South Asian countries.

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