"As long as the family system prevails": gender, the family and law in indentured labour recruitment in India, 1800-1930

“只要家庭制度盛行”：1800-1930 年印度契约劳工招聘中的性别、家庭和法律

• 批准号: 2370604
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: School of Oriental and African Studies
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2370604
• 关键词: long; family; system; prevails; gender

I analyse the project of Indian indentured labour through a gendered lens and through the prism of the family. By understanding the processes of recruitment for indentured labour as fundamentally gendered, I analyse the legal construction of the labouring family as both a colonial settlement project and as a means of economic extraction. Indentured labour brought both Indian people and the people who inhabited the colonies they were sent to into increasing contract with and control of the state. This contact was mediated not just through direct control but also by creating and manipulating societal factors. I question why the logics of indenture and the logics of family have been held so distinct. I hope to uncover both who the indentured family was and what it was imagined they could be. Alongside this, I will analyse the ways in which a gendered labour system was constructed under the guise of the family. Key questions for this are how colonial understandings of femininity and masculinity affected this and what role did economic factors play. Crucial to my understanding of this is Samita Sen's work on the utility of marriage for the regulation of labour in colonial India. Finally, I look at the spatiality of the indentured family and it's impacts, particularly with regards to indigeneity. When were different groups associated with indenture read as 'belonging' and when were they read as 'strangers'? How was all of this written into and perpetuated through the law? For this project I utilise multiple methodologies, including transnational history, queer theory, spatiality and gender as a project of power.

我通过性别的透镜和家庭的棱镜来分析印度契约劳工的项目。通过理解契约劳工的招聘过程中，从根本上性别，我分析了劳动家庭的法律的建设作为一个殖民地定居项目，并作为一种手段的经济提取。契约劳工使印第安人和殖民地居民与国家的契约和控制不断加强。这种接触不仅通过直接控制，而且通过创造和操纵社会因素来调解。我质疑为什么独立的逻辑和家族的逻辑如此不同。我希望能揭开契约家庭是谁，以及他们想象中的样子。与此同时，我将分析在家庭的幌子下，性别化的劳动体系是如何构建的。这方面的关键问题是，殖民地对女性气质和男性气质的理解如何影响这一点，以及经济因素发挥了什么作用。对我理解这一点至关重要的是Samita Sen关于婚姻在殖民地印度的劳动力调节中的效用的工作。最后，我看看契约家庭的空间性及其影响，特别是关于印第安人。什么时候与独立相关的不同群体被解读为“归属感”，什么时候被解读为“陌生人”？这一切是如何写进法律并通过法律永久化的？在这个项目中，我使用了多种方法，包括跨国历史，酷儿理论，空间性和性别作为一个权力项目。