Community, Memory, and Migration in a Globalizing World

Margaret Frenz opens her work on Goan migration to East Africa with the assertion that migration is ‘one of the—if not the—major constituents of global society in the twenty-first century’ (p. 2). In the current international climate, where anxieties over the negative implications of migration are pervasive, Frenz’s claim is no overstatement. In its nuanced and thought-provoking exploration of Goan East Africans, her book provides a rich historical counterweight to fears and assumptions over the economic competition, socio-political disorder and threats to national security that contemporary migratory experience is perceived to engender. The book foregrounds mobility and adaptation as key conditions of modernity. Yet, in charting the journeys of Goans from the Indian subcontinent to East Africa and beyond, this is never a simple narrative about one group’s relocation, but a book which blends individual agency with large structural processes to provide a complex, multi-generational, multi-sited account of migration across the twentieth century

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