Title Indian migration and empire : a colonial genealogy of the modern state / Radhika Mongia

Published Durham : Duke University Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource Contents The migration of "free" labor : contracting freedom -- Disciplinary power and the colonial state : the bureaucracy of migration control -- Gendered nationalism, the racialized state, and the making of migration law : the Indian "marriage question" in South Africa -- Race, nationality, mobility : a history of the passport Summary How did states come to monopolize control over migration? What do the processes that produced this monopoly tell us about the modern state? In Indian Migration and Empire Radhika Mongia provocatively argues that the formation of colonial migration regulations was dependent upon, accompanied by, and generative of profound changes in normative conceptions of the modern state. Focused on state regulation of colonial Indian migration between 1834 and 1917, Mongia illuminates the genesis of central techniques of migration control. She shows how important elements of current migration regimes, including the notion of state sovereignty as embodying the authority to control migration, the distinction between free and forced migration, the emergence of passports, the formation of migration bureaucracies, and the incorporation of kinship relations into migration logics, are the product of complex debates that attended colonial migrations. By charting how state control of migration was critical to the transformation of a world dominated by empire-states into a world dominated by nation-states, Mongia challenges positions that posit a stark distinction between the colonial state and the modern state to trace aspects of their entanglements Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL In English Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Contract system (Labor) -- India -- History Passports -- Government policy -- India -- History SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration. HISTORY -- Asia -- India & South Asia. British colonies Contract system (Labor) Emigration and immigration Emigration and immigration -- Government policy Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects SUBJECT India -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects -- History India -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy -- History Great Britain -- Colonies -- Emigration and immigration. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056643 Subject India Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2018000889 ISBN 9780822372110 0822372118

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