Indian Migration and Empire

A Colonial Genealogy of the Modern State

Radhika Mongia (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

248 Seiten

2018
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8223-7102-1 (ISBN)

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How did states come to monopolize control over migration? What do the processes that produced this monopoly tell us about the modern state? In Indian Migration and Empire Radhika Mongia provocatively argues that the formation of colonial migration regulations was dependent upon, accompanied by, and generative of profound changes in normative conceptions of the modern state. Focused on state regulation of colonial Indian migration between 1834 and 1917, Mongia illuminates the genesis of central techniques of migration control. She shows how important elements of current migration regimes, including the notion of state sovereignty as embodying the authority to control migration, the distinction between free and forced migration, the emergence of passports, the formation of migration bureaucracies, and the incorporation of kinship relations into migration logics, are the product of complex debates that attended colonial migrations. By charting how state control of migration was critical to the transformation of a world dominated by empire-states into a world dominated by nation-states, Mongia challenges positions that posit a stark distinction between the colonial state and the modern state to trace aspects of their entanglements.

Radhika Mongia is Associate Professor of Sociology at York University.

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. The Migration of "Free" Labor: Contracting Freedom 22
2. Disciplinary Power and the Colonial State: The Bureaucracy of Migration Control 56
3. Gendered Nationalism, the Racialized State, and the Making of Migration Law: The Indian "Marriage Question" in South Africa 85
4. Race, Nationality, Mobility: A History of the Passport 112
Epilogue. In History: A Colonial Genealogy of the Modern State 141
Notes 151
Bibliography 199
Index 221

Erscheinungsdatum	13.08.2018
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	363 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8223-7102-2 / 0822371022
ISBN-13	978-0-8223-7102-1 / 9780822371021
Zustand	Neuware