Settled Strangers

Asian Business Elites in East Africa (1800-2000)

Gijsbert Oonk (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

292 Seiten

2013
Sage Publications India Pvt Ltd (Verlag)
978-81-321-1054-5 (ISBN)

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Aims at understanding the social, economic and political evolution of the transnational migrant community of Gujarati traders and merchants in East Africa. This book is an attempt to provide some balance in the form of a history of the South Asians in East Africa through the lens of the actors themselves.

Settled Strangers aims at understanding the social, economic and political evolution of the transnational migrant community of Gujarati traders and merchants in East Africa. The history of South Asians in East Africa is neither part of the mainstream national Indian history nor that of East African history writing. This is surprising because South Asians in East Africa outnumbered the Europeans ten-to-one. Moreover, their overall economic contribution and political significance may be more important than the history of the colonisers.

This book is an attempt to provide some balance in the form of a history of the South Asians in East Africa through the lens of the actors themselves. It studies the kind of social, economic and political adjustments the emigrant Gujaratis had to make in the course of this migration. By using insights from the social sciences, including concepts like cultural capital, family firm, transnationality, middleman minorities and cultural change, this book aims to achieve a broader understanding of communities that do not belong to nations, yet are part of national states.

Gijsbert Oonk is Head of Department of History at the Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication (ESHCC), Rotterdam, the Netherlands. He is the ‘South Asian Area/History’ editor of the Journal of Economic and Social History of the Orient (JESHO) as well as editor of Geschiedenis Magazine (History magazine, published in Dutch). He was also the Alfred D. Chandler Jr International Visiting Fellow in Business History at the Harvard Business School (Boston) for the year 2011–2012. He specialises in business, migration and economic history. He is particularly interested in the role of South Asian (Indian) migrants and settlers in East Africa. His earlier publications include: The Karimjee Jivanjee Family: Merchant Princes of East Africa, 1800–2000 (2009) and Global Indian Diasporas: Exploring Trajectories of Migration and Theory (edited) (2007).

Preface
Introduction
Settled Strangers: From Middleman Minorities to World Citizens
Asians in Africa 1880-1920: Settling as an Economic Process
Asians in Africa 1880-1960: Settling as a Cultural Process
Asians in Africa 1880-2000: Settling and Unsettling as a Political Process
A Quest for an Interdisciplinary History from Below in Explaining Social Change.
Appendix
Bibliography
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.12.2013
Verlagsort	New Delhi
Sprache	englisch
Maße	139 x 215 mm
Gewicht	480 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	81-321-1054-4 / 8132110544
ISBN-13	978-81-321-1054-5 / 9788132110545
Zustand	Neuware