Migration, religion and post-imperial formations

Bibliographic Data

ID4263109
AuthorsT B Hansen (0000-0003-3090-4185, Stanford University, corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume14
Issue3
Pages273-290
Publication date2014-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGlobal Networks (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1470-2266 • E-ISSN: 1471-0374
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/glob.12059
OpenAlexW2100603019
LanguageEN
Citations received14
References cited58

Most scholarship on international migration focuses on the incorporation of ethnic and religious minorities into societies in Europe and North America. Much of this work overlooks that a very substantial part of contemporary flows of migration happen within well-trodden pathways of language, commercial ties and cultural imagination established by colonial empires and the networks of exchange and control they enabled. Adopting a notion of the post-imperial formation as a crucial economic and cultural factor in contemporary migration flows affords one to understand a much broader set of migratory movements beyond the Euro-American context. In this article, I explore two such examples - migration to Johannesburg and Durban in South Africa, and labour migration from the Indian subcontinent to the Gulf States - in the light of how movement of labour, commercial transactions and religious-cultural difference were managed within the British imperial and post-imperial formation

Archaeology · Colonialism · Economics · Economy · Ethnic group · Ethnology · Geography · Indian subcontinent · Political economy · Political science · Scholarship · Sociology · Anthropology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · History · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy

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