Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/9549
Title: Indian Ocean Crossings: Indian Labor Migration and Settlement in Southeast Asia, 1870 to 1940
Contributor(s): Kaur, Amarjit  (author)
Publication Date: 2011
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/9549
Abstract: In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Southeast Asia was one of two main destinations of mass migration (the other being the United States) and Indian and Chinese labor migrants dominated migration flows. This movement was a defining feature of Asian globalization and Chinese and Indian immigration rates were comparable to transatlantic immigration rates during the same period. While the transatlantic migration flows are acknowledged as voluntary and resulting from economic, demographic, and technological transformations, Asian voluntary migration has largely been misrepresented as coerced and circular migration only. Asian immigrants' experiences, their considerable impact on Southeast Asian economies and societies, and permanent overseas settlements must thus be seen through the lens of an integrated labor market, connections, and movement. This paper analyses the important pathways linking the British Empire, the complex exchanges, and opportunities associated with the global trade in commodities, and labor crossings in the region. It also examines the forces that shaped Indian emigration to Southeast Asia against the backdrop of India's pivotal role in the region and the interconnections between different societies in Asia. The focus is on Indian Ocean crossings and Indian labor migration to Burma and Malaya to establish and explain these imperial and global connections.
Publication Type: Book Chapter
Source of Publication: Connecting Seas and Connected Ocean Rims: Indian, Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and China Seas Migrations from the 1830s to the 1930s, p. 134-166
Publisher: Brill
Place of Publication: Leiden, Netherlands
ISBN: 9789004193161
9004193162
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 140203 Economic History
160303 Migration
160305 Population Trends and Policies
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 940304 International Political Economy (excl. International Trade)
940299 Government and Politics not elsewhere classified
950502 Understanding Asias Past
HERDC Category Description: B1 Chapter in a Scholarly Book
Publisher/associated links: http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/38838571
http://www.brill.nl/connecting-seas-and-connected-ocean-rims
Series Name: Studies in Global Social History
Series Number : 8
Editor: Editor(s): Donna R Gabaccia and Dirk Hoerder
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