Convicts and Coolies: Rethinking Indentured Labour in the Nineteenth Century1
Convicts and Coolies: Rethinking Indentured Labour in the Nineteenth Century1
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罪犯和苦力：重新思考 19 世纪的契约劳工1
DOI：
10.1080/01440390802673856
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发表时间：
2009
影响因子：
0.7
通讯作者：
Clare Anderson
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作者：
Clare Anderson
本文试图改变讨论印度契约移民的分析框架。它认为，对契约的殖民话语和实践最好的理解不是关于它是否是“一种新的奴隶制”的共同历史框架，而是关于殖民在监禁和监禁方面的创新。这篇文章展示了印度人关于海外移民的经验和知识如何以重要的方式影响了他们自己对移民的理解和表达，以及与雇佣契约劳工相关的殖民实践。在详细描述两种被认为不同的劳工制度之间的联系时，它为围绕它们的所谓区别的辩论带来了进一步的复杂性。
This article seeks to shift the frame of analysis within which discussions of Indian indentured migration take place. It argues that colonial discourses and practices of indenture are best understood not with regard to the common historiographical framework of whether it was ‘a new system of slavery’, but in the context of colonial innovations in incarceration and confinement. The article shows how Indian experiences of and knowledge about transportation overseas to penal settlements informed in important ways both their own understandings and representations of migration and the colonial practices associated with the recruitment of indentured labour. In detailing the connections between two supposedly different labour regimes, it thus brings a further layer of complexity to debates around their supposed distinctions.