Globalization from Below. Circular Migrations between South Asia and Africa, c. 1850-2000 (GloBe)

人口迁移是后帝国时代和全球世界的一个构成因素，并吸引了广泛但不对称的史学关注。有几个不平衡：不同的欧洲帝国和他们之间的边境过境的不均衡的关注；忽视了跨越“帝国的终结”，并考虑殖民时期建立的流动的后殖民影响；对帝国机构的关注损害了对其他群体机构的理解；忽视了不仅是进出大都市的流动，而且还包括任何特定帝国内部和外部的移民；相对而言，忽视了考虑移徙对那些留下来的人以及移徙者的影响，即对移徙者及其社会世界的经历发表意见。《环球报》的目的就是把这些主题置于分析的中心。GloBe比较了南亚人向东非、莫桑比克和南非的多维循环迁移。对多维的、循环的移民运动的关注为西印度洋移民史的研究提供了一个新的视角，它打开了对不同类型的移民运动、不同帝国和民族国家之间的流动、移民与当地人口之间的社会关系的比较观点。因此，分析和理解十九世纪和二十世纪南亚和非洲之间的循环移民运动具有重要意义。南亚仍然是生活在非洲的南亚人的一个参照点，也是一些移民返回或定期前往的地方，以保持他们跨越西印度洋的联系。环球将调查南亚移民到非洲，他们的历史轨迹，他们的运动的连续性和转变，以及他们迁移到非洲不同地区之间的异同。它区分了各种类型的移民，以便对南亚和非洲之间的循环移民运动产生新的理解。在方法上，该项目涉及三大洲（欧洲、南亚、非洲）的档案咨询，并将对幸存的南亚移民的口述历史采访的分析编织到我的工作中。我将为现有的学术贡献新的方面：关于运动的循环特性；大英帝国和葡萄牙帝国内部的联系；关于大英帝国和葡萄牙帝国之间的帝国内部联系，以及从20世纪中叶开始，帝国和民族国家之间的联系，弥合了殖民和后殖民的鸿沟。这份Sachbeihilfe-application是为了补充我的heisenberg - program application，用于支付我在研究期间的档案和实地调研的差旅费以及其他费用。

Migration of people is a constituting element of the post-imperial and global worlds, and has attracted wide but asymmetrical historiographical attention. There are several imbalances: uneven attention to the different European Empires and border-crossings between them; a negligence to look across the "end of Empire(s)" and to consider the post-colonial implications of flows established in colonial periods; a preoccupation with imperial agency to the detriment of understanding the agency of other groups; a neglect of flows that are not merely to and from the metropolis, but which include migrations within and outwith any particular Empire; and a relative neglect to consider the implications of migrations for those left behind as well as those who migrate, i.e. to give voice to the experiences of the migrants and their social worlds. It is the aim of GloBe to put these themes at the centre of the analysis.GloBe compares multi-dimensional, circular migration movements of South Asians to East Africa, Mozambique, and South Africa. The focus on multi-dimensional, circular migrations movements provides a novel perspective in the study of migration history in the Western Indian Ocean which opens up comparative views on different types of migration movements, on flows of mobility across different empires and nation-states, and on social relationships between and among migrants and local populations. It is therefore of great relevance to analyse and understand circulatory migration movements between South Asia and Africa in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. South Asia remained a reference point for South Asians living in Africa, and also was a place to which some migrants returned, or were travelling to on a regular basis to maintain their connections across the Western Indian Ocean. GloBe will investigate South Asian migrants to Africa, their historical trajectories, the continuities and transformations of their movements, as well as similarities in and differences between their migrations to different parts of Africa. It differentiates the various types of migration in order to create a novel understanding of circular migration movements between South Asia and Africa. Methodologically, the project involves consulting archives in three continents (Europe, South Asia, Africa) and weaving the analysis of oral history interviews with surviving South Asian migrants into my work. I will contribute new aspects to existing scholarship: on the circulatory character of movements; on intra-imperial connections within the British and the Portuguese Empires; on inter-imperial connections between the British and Portuguese Empires, and from the mid-twentieth century on, between empires and nation-states bridging the colonial and post-colonial divide.This Sachbeihilfe-application is meant to complement my Heisenberg-Programme application to cover the travel expenses for archival and field research and other costs during the period of research.