South Asian Migrations in Global History

Labor, Law, and Wayward Lives

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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This collection explores how South Asian migrations in modern history have shaped key aspects of globalization since the 1830s. Including original research from colonial India, Fiji, Mexico, South Africa, North America and the Middle East, the essays explore indentured labour and its legacies, law as a site of regulation and historical biography. Including recent scholarship on the legacy of issues such as consent, sovereignty and skilled/unskilled labour distinctions from the history of indentured labour migrations, this volume brings together a range of historical changes that can only be understood by studying South Asian migrants within a globalized world system. Centering south Asian migrations as a site of analysis in global history, the contributors offer a lens into the ongoing regulation of labourers after the abolition of slavery that intersect with histories in the Global North and Global South. The use of historical biography showcases experiences from below, and showcases a world history outside empire and nation.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2022-07-28
Mått152 x 232 x 20 mm
Vikt420 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor280
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350197343

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List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsForeword, Victor V. RamrajPrologue: Archives, Paper Regimes, and Mobility, Uma Dhupelia-MeshtrieIntroduction, Neilesh BosePart 1: Impacts of Indentured Labor 1. Gokhale, Polak, and the end of Indian indenture in South Africa, 1860 – 1911, Goolam Vahed2. Imperial Labor: Labor, Security, and the Depoliticization of Oil Production in the Arabian Peninsula, Andrea Wright3. Legal Discourse on ‘Coolies’ Migration from India to the Sugar Colonies, 1837-1922, Ashutosh KumarPart II: Law in Migration Histories 4. Slavery, Abolitionism, Indentured Labor: the Problem of Exit and the Border Between Land and Sea in Colonial India, Riyad Koya5. Who is Asiatic? Drawing the Boundary in the Legal and Political Framing of Indian South Africans, 1860-1960, Marina MartinPart III: Historical Biography6. Taraknath Das: A Global Biography, Neilesh Bose7. Beyond the Reach of Empire: Pandurang Khankhoje´s Transit from British Colonial Subject to Mexican 'Naturalizado' (1924-1954), Daniel Kent-Carrasco8. A Woman of Peace and Calm: the Story of Senthamani Govender, Devarakshanam GovindenEpilogue: Oceanic Currents and Wayward Crossings, Renisa Mawani

This important collection breaks new ground in global history, offering an array of case studies that chart subcontinental migrations within and and beyond the rubric of empire. Together, these essays demonstrate the agency of South Asians as their mobility highlights processes of the formation of the modern nation state, even as they seek to transgress the arbitrariness of its borders, identities and legal manoeuvres.