This law is to prevent and combat the illicit trafficking of migrants; protect the rights of migrants subject to illicit trafficking; and promote and facilitate national and international cooperation to prevent and combat the smuggling of migrants in all its forms.
The law determines which individuals have Nigerien nationality at birth as their nationality of origin. Nigerien nationality is acquired or lost, after birth, by the effect of the present legislation or by decision of the public authority taken under the conditions laid down in this law.