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.
General
Imprint: |
Duke University Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
August 2018 |
First published: |
2018 |
Authors: |
Radhika Mongia
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 15mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
248 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8223-7102-1 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-8223-7102-2 |
Barcode: |
9780822371021 |
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