Ethnoscapes of Exile
Political Prisoners from Indochina in a Colonial Asian World
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9969917 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lorraine M Paterson (University of Leicester, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 63 |
| Issue | S26 |
| Pages | 89-107 |
| Publication date | 2018-06-14 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Review of Social History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-8590 • E-ISSN: 1469-512X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0020859018000238 |
| OpenAlex | W2808315102 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 8 |
During the French colonization of Indochina (1863–1954), approximately 8,000 prisoners – many of them convicted of political crimes – were exiled to twelve different geographical locations throughout the French empire. Many of these prisoners came from a Chinese background or a culturally Chinese world, and the sites to which they were exiled (even the penal colonies themselves) contained diasporic Chinese communities. Knowing Chinese might be their greatest asset, or being able to “pass” as Chinese the most valuable tool to facilitate escape. This article explores a group of political prisoners sent from French Indochina to French Guiana in 1913 and their subsequent escape, with the aid of Chinese residents. If exile is, in one sense, the ultimate exercise of colonial power – capable of moving bodies to distant locales – examining these lives through a Vietnamese lens reveals a very different story than the colonial archival record reflects
Ancient history · Colonialism · Empire · Ethnology · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · Vietnamese · Gender Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law · North African History and Literature · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
Space in the TropicsFrom Convicts to Rockets in French Guiana
Vietnamese Anticolonialism 1885–1925
Networks of Empire
Millenarianism and Peasant Politics in Vietnam
The Colonial Bastille
Colonisation or incarceration? The changing role of the French penal colony in fin‐de‐siecle New Caledonia
Les bagnes des Indochinois en Guyane (1931-1963)
| Citations per year | 0.27 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2026 (12) |
| Highly cited | No |