Indian Migration and Empire - A Colonial Genealogy of the Modern State Mongia RadhikaPaperback / softback
Indian Migration and Empire - A Colonial Genealogy of the Modern State Mongia RadhikaPaperback / softback How did states come to monopolize control over migration? In Indian Migration and Empire…
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Indian Migration and Empire - A Colonial Genealogy of the Modern State Mongia RadhikaPaperback / softback
How did states come to monopolize control over migration? 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. What do the processes that produced this monopoly tell us about the modern state?
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 Focused on state regulation of colonial Indian migration between 1834 and 1917, Mongia illuminates the genesis of central techniques of migration control.