ISBN:
9781503636095
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9781503632981
Language:
English
Pages:
xvii, 284 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Series Statement:
South Asia in motion
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Ramnath, Kalyani Boats in a Storm
DDC:
342.54083
Keywords:
20. Jahrhundert (1900 bis 1999 n. Chr.)
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20th century
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Postkolonialismus
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Südostasien
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Südasien
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Citizenship History 20th century
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Citizenship History 20th century
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Noncitizens History 20th century
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Noncitizens History 20th century
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Decolonization History 20th century
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Decolonization History 20th century
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Emigration and immigration law History 20th century
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Emigration and immigration law History 20th century
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20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000
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Asian history
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Asiatische Geschichte
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General & world history
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Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte
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HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia
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HISTORY / World
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LAW / Legal History
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Legal history
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Migration, Einwanderung und Auswanderung
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Migration, immigration & emigration
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Rechtsgeschichte
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration
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Indian sub-continent
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Indischer Subkontinent
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Südasien
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Südostasien
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Migration
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Staatsangehöriger
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Bürgerrecht
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Geschichte 1942-1962
Abstract:
"For more than a century before World War II, traders, merchants, financiers, and laborers steadily moved between places on the Indian Ocean, trading goods, supplying credit, and seeking work. This all changed with the war and as India, Burma, Ceylon, and Malaya wrested independence from the British empire. Set against the tumult of the postwar period, Boats in a Storm centers on the legal struggles of migrants to retain their traditional rhythms and patterns of life, illustrating how they experienced citizenship and decolonization. Even as nascent citizenship regimes and divergent political trajectories of decolonization papered over migrations between South and Southeast Asia, migrants continued to recount cross-border histories in encounters with the law. These accounts, often obscured by national and international political developments, unsettle the notion that static national identities and loyalties had emerged, fully formed and unblemished by migrant pasts, in the aftermath of empires. Drawing on archival research conducted in India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, London, and Singapore, Kalyani Ramnath narrates how former migrants battled legal requirements to revive prewar circulations of credit, capital, and labor, in a postwar context of rising ethno-nationalisms that accused migrants of stealing jobs and hoarding land. Ultimately, Ramnath shows how decolonization was marked not only by shipwrecked empires and nation-states assembled and ordered from the debris of imperial collapse, but also by these forgotten stories of wartime displacements, their unintended consequences, and long afterlives."
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: Boats in a Storm 1. 1942 2. Banana Money 3. Partnership Deeds 4. Application Forms 5. Women Who Wait 6. Red Flags 7. 1962 Conclusion: An Uneasy Calm
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