Repression and Migration
Forced Labour Exile of Mozambicans to São Tomé, 1948-1955
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4603879 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Zachary Kagan-Guthrie (Princeton University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 449-462 |
| Publication date | 2011-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Southern African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-7070 • E-ISSN: 1465-3893 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03057070.2011.602885 |
| OpenAlex | W1980894528 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
The forced exile of Mozambican and Angolan labourers to cocoa plantations on the islands of São Tomé in the early 1900s sparked an international scandal and has subsequently generated considerable historical interest. Its later incarnation during the late 1940s and early 1950s, however, has attracted little scholarly attention. Focusing on central Mozambique, this article explores the forced labour exile of ‘undesirables’ and convicts as a product of colonial social and economic relations beyond the paradigm of resistance and repression. In particular, it considers the use of exile as a means of enforcing and reinforcing administrative power and prestige, rather than as a defence against perceived threats to the political and social prerogatives of the colonial state. It also cites the importance of labour demands in São Tomé, rather than the exigencies of colonial control within Mozambique, in spurring the expansion in the number of coerced labourers. Finally, it discusses the widespread exile of economic migrants – both international and internal – into forced labour on São Tomé, arguing that this demonstrates the Portuguese colonial regime's deep concern with its inability to control migrant labour flows, as well as the vulnerability of those migrants who contravened the colonial pass laws that sought to restrict their mobility
Colonialism · Forced migration · Political economy · Political repression · Political science · Politics · Portuguese · Power (physics · Prestige · Refugee · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · State (computer science · African history and culture studies · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · Law
| Citations per year | 0.21 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2012 - 2017 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |