Souad Akhaty Alamin

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An independent researcher and community advocate based in the Fezzan region of Libya, and a member of the Tuareg community. She has over a decade of professional experience in protection, civil documentation, field research, and monitoring and evaluation across Libya, including work with international humanitarian and migration organisations such as UNHCR, IOM, WFP, and EU-funded programmes. Her research focuses on administrative exclusion, statelessness, indigenous rights, and governance in the Libyan south.

Tuareg Statelessness and the Cost of Political Delay

Abstract This article examines how administrative statelessness functions as a deliberate governance strategy across successive Libyan regimes, with particular focus on the Tuareg communities of the Fezzan region. The delay examined here did not begin with the 2011 revolution: Tuareg families who settled permanently in Libya from the 1950s onward…