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Women Gender And The Legacy Of Slavery And Indenture
Hardback Edition: 1
The age of imperialism ushered in a new phenomenon of large-scale organized migration of labourers through the systems of slavery and indenture, which were devised to feed the colonial political-economy. Another feature of such migrations was that it led to the permanent settlement of the uprooted African and Asian labourers in the new lands. These developments, in the long run, intertwined the histories of the ruler and the ruled, the so-called civilized and the uncivilized along with the people from various continents, thus giving rise to plural societies. The narratives, however, remained dominated by the colonial legacies and frames of reference. Today such historical colonial narratives are being challenged and clarified through multi-disciplinary academic engagements. The authors in this volume take gender as a prominent analytical category and raise new questions and understandings in the way we conceptualize, document and write about gendered migrations in the diaspora.
Publisher : Routledge
Pages : 240
Publication date : 2020-11-02
Subjects: Non-fiction, Published in the UK, Humanities, Social Sciences, History, Sociology, Slavery & Abolition Of Slavery, Gender Studies, Gender Groups, Gender Studies: Women