Greek immigration and Settlement in Southern Africa: a history of capital, race and mobility in the British empire

我的博士学位研究了从1917年到1977年的60年间希腊移民到南部非洲的情况。希腊的经历就像一个镜头，映照了帝国在非洲历史上的各种元素，比如种族化治理的发展，支撑这种治理的种族类别的变化，以及这些过程中边境政权的发展。它之所以能够做到这一点，是因为该地区希腊社区的历史对帝国意识形态来说是一个谜——希腊人既不属于大都市定居者，也不属于本土或帝国臣民的意识形态范畴。然而，他们在这些类别之间的空间中发挥着重要的作用。因此，这个项目将有助于形成关于移民、白人的发展、全球流动和种族的管理和意识形态以及地方经济和社会结构的文献。它将通过使用南非、津巴布韦、赞比亚和马拉维的地方国家和非国家档案，以及伦敦的帝国档案馆，以及这些地点的口述历史和家庭档案来进行。中心研究问题：对1917年至1977年东地中海裔移民到南部非洲的研究，能告诉我们“种族”的位置和性质，以及地方和帝国治理中的流动性吗？相关问题：这些移民在区域社会政治和经济格局中的地位是什么？移民的地区角色如何与殖民和帝国治理相互作用？移民对他们被归为“白人”的经历是什么？这种归因如何与先前存在的种族和散居身份相交叉？

My PhD offers a study of Greek immigration into Southern Africa over the course of 60 years, from 1917 to 1977. The Greek experience acts as a lens onto various elements of the history of empire in Africa, such as the development of racialised governance, the shifting racial categories which underpin that governance, and the development of border regimes in these processes. It will be able to do this because the history of the Greek community in the region is an enigma for imperial ideology - Greeks did not fit into the ideological categories of either metropolitan settlers or native or imperial subjects. They nevertheless had important roles to play in the spaces between these categories. This project will thus contribute to a literature on migration, the development of whiteness, of the governance and ideology of global mobility and race and of local economies and social structures. It will be conducted through the use of local state and non-state archives in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi and the imperial archives in London as well as with oral histories and family archives in each of these sites.Central Research Question: What can the study of immigration into Southern Africa of people of eastern Mediterranean origin from 1917 to 1977 tell us about the place and nature of "race" and mobility in local and imperial governance? Related questions: What is the place of these migrants in the regional socio-political and economic landscape? How does migrants regional role interact with colonial and imperial governance? What are immigrants' experiences of the attribution of "whiteness" to them? How does this attribution intersect with pre-existing ethnic and diasporic identities?