Migration and Creation of New Societies
A Story from the Indian Ocean
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23472589 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Abdul Sheriff (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Pages | 354-372 |
| Publication date | 2019-05-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Transregional Trade and Traders (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oso/9780199490684.003.0016 |
| OpenAlex | W2945644780 |
| ISBN | 9780199490684 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
The general outline of Indian migration to East Africa is broadly understood, and there have been a number of detailed family histories of prominent people of Indian origin, which sometimes tend to freeze the image of Indians as a homogeneous and separate entity. The author decided to compile a history of his family which had lived in Zanzibar for five generations. He wanted to understand, within the context of much wider migrations and settlements across the Indian Ocean by all sorts of peoples, why and how they migrated, how they became not a ‘diaspora’ but an indigenized and part of a constantly evolving multicultural society, a perspective that is often lacking in the existing literature on the Indians overseas.
Archaeology · Art · Context (archaeology) · Diaspora · Ethnology · Genealogy · Geography · Homogeneous · Human settlement · Indian ocean · Multiculturalism · Perspective (graphical) · Political science · Sociology · Visual arts · African history and culture studies · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Gender Studies · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Law
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |