Doctoral Dissertation Research - Colonial Legacies and Administrative Memory: The Legal Construction of Population Management Practices in Three Former British Colonies

政权更迭意味着它将带来变革、改革和进步。然而，即使在政治领导层发生根本性变化之后，国家官僚机构和行政部门也往往阻止新政策的实施。这一点在现代国家从殖民地到后殖民地的过渡中最为明显，人们会期望独立的政府将自己与殖民地的前辈区别开来。但在公民身份、居留权和移民的定义上，前英国殖民地与新民主政权在形式上的相似程度令人惊讶。本项目深入这一正式表面，审查三个前英国殖民地在独立前后人口管理方面的行政做法。该项目探讨殖民遗产是否以及如何持续存在，并在它们存在的地方，追踪这些遗产如何塑造新生民主国家的治理实践。为了研究殖民实践及其遗产，调查人员探索了三个前英国殖民地：以色列，塞浦路斯和印度的行政实践的微观程序。这三个国家都遭受了社区间的暴力和随后的分裂后，他们从大英帝国独立。通过对其行政档案的历史比较，调查人员构建了殖民地国家和随后独立国家移民部门的组织肖像。 近年来，在人口管理领域，政府根据公民、居民、外国人、入侵者或可疑人员的身份将人口分类，这在法律和社会学术以及政策辩论中对安全和民族认同问题都至关重要。该项目探讨了这些分类是如何通过日常行政实践，甚至通过政权更迭来创建和传递的。了解连续性机制如何使不平等永久化并阻止变革，将使决策者能够更好地预测哪些方面需要积极的组织变革，以促进民主做法并遏制歧视的遗留问题。

Regime change carries a promise that it will bring about transformation, reform and progress. However, even after political leadership undergoes radical changes, state bureaucracies and administrations often prevent implementation of new policies. Nowhere is this more visible than in the transition of modern states from colony into post-colony, where one would expect independent governments to differentiate themselves from their colonial predecessors. But former British colonies reveal surprising degrees of formal similarity with the new democratic regimes, in definitions of citizenship, residency and immigration. This project goes beneath that formal surface to examine the administrative practices of three former British colonies in the area of population management before and after independence. This project inquires into whether and how colonial legacies persist, and, where they do, traces how these legacies shape the governing practices of nascent democracies. To examine colonial practices and their legacies, the investigators explore the micro-routines of administrative practices in three former British colonies: Israel, Cyprus and India. All three states suffered from inter-communal violence and subsequent partition following their independence from the British Empire. Through historical comparison of their administrative archives, the investigators construct organizational portraits of the departments of immigration both in the colonial state and in the independent states that followed. In recent years, the field of population management, in which governments classify populations according to their status as citizens, residents, aliens, intruders or suspicious persons, has become crucial to issues of security and national identity, both in law and society scholarship and in policy debates. This project explores how those classifications are created and passed on through daily administrative practices, even through regime changes. Understanding how mechanisms of continuity perpetuate inequalities and prevent change will enable policy makers to better anticipate where active organizational transformation is needed in order to promote democratic practices and curb legacies of discrimination.