Post-Emancipation Indenture and Migration: Identities, Racialization and Transnationalism

The chapters in this volume contribute to the current scholarship on his­torical and contemporary migrations by providing new interdisciplinary approaches to historical and contemporary global migratory issues, while simultaneously analyzing ethnicization, identity formation, racial­ization, citizenship, nationalism, and transnationalism. Themes such as border crossing, forced migration, displacement, and statelessness are problematized, and in the process, challenge existing dominant meta­narratives. One distinctive feature is how marginalized and silenced voices shift from the margin to the centre of migration narratives, reinforced by the fact?that?most?contributors?write?from?an?insider’s?perspective. About the Author Maurits S. Hassankhan is a historian from Suriname. His research interests are indentured labour, migration, diaspora and development, inter-ethnic relations and history of Indians in Suriname. He is the co-editor of the Historical Database Suriname (HDS) that includes databases on indentured?labourers?in?Suriname. Kalpana Hiralal is a professor of History in the School of Social Sciences at Howard College at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Her two key areas of interest are, Gender and South Asian Diaspora and Gender and Resistance in South Africa. She has several published works in these fields. Cristiana Bastos is an anthropologist at the University of Lisbon, Portugal. Her previous appointments were in the United States and Brazil. Her research addresses health, colonial biopolitics, plantation labor and racialization?processes. Lomarsh Roopnarine is a Professor of Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Jackson State University. He has published on the South Asian Diaspora in the Caribbean. His book, The Indian Caribbean: Migration and Identity in the Diaspora was the 218 recipient of The Caribbean Studies Association?(CSA)?Gordon?K.?&?Sybil?Lewis?Book?Award.