WESTAFRGLOBDIA: Citizens and 'Strangers': The Global Diamond Industry, Migration and Citizenship in West Africa (1920-80)

该项目将是对西非钻石开采、移徙和公民身份的第一次比较和深入的介绍。它将比较加纳、几内亚和塞拉利昂钻石业从20世纪20年代早期生产到20世纪80年代国有化的发展。我的核心假设是，对西非钻石日益增长的需求不仅提供了更多的工作和流动机会，而且增加了政府和行业老板之间的殖民和后殖民焦虑。这些焦虑集中在三个问题上：如何最好地发展国家，如何引导人口流动，以及如何控制劳动力。这个研究项目将建立在我以前在西非和欧洲进行的研究的基础上。它将使人们深刻地认识到，成千上万的男女是如何被纳入和排除在西非钻石开采之外的。它将展示工业开发和发展的新殖民议程如何与经济领域以外的不同领域相互作用。它将把目前对非洲和欧洲之间移徙趋势的关注转移到非洲内部更大规模的人口流动上。该项目将在历史、发展和移民之间开展系统的对话，以多学科方法为基础，探讨西非全球钻石业、泛非主义意识形态和控制移民和公民权利的政策之间的关系。它的核心论点是，这个行业不仅为移民工人提供了更多的机会，而且还增加了殖民地和后殖民地对如何最好地发展国家的焦虑，并有助于使国家和公民身份的观念更具排他性。这项工作将把我们的注意力从沿着全球南/北轴线的人口流动转移到非洲大陆内部发生的更深刻的移徙历史上。

This project will be the first comparative and in-depth account of diamond extraction, migration and citizenship in West Africa. It will compare the development of the diamond industry in Ghana, Guinea and Sierra Leone from its early years of production in the 1920s to its nationalisation in the 1980s. My central hypothesis is that the growing demand for West Africa's diamonds not only provided additional opportunities for work and mobility, but also increased colonial and postcolonial anxieties among governments and the industry's bosses. These anxieties coalesced around three issues: how best to develop the nation, how to channel movements of people, and how to control labour. This research project will build upon previous research I carried out in West Africa and Europe. It will provide a deep historicization of the ways in which thousands of men and women came to be included and excluded from diamond mining in West Africa. It will demonstrate how new colonial agendas of industrial exploitation and development interacted with different realms beyond the merely economic sphere. It will shift current preoccupation with migratory trends between Africaand Europe to the more significant movements of people taking place within Africa. The project will develop a systematic dialogue between History, Development and Migration StBased on a multidisciplinary approach, the project explores the relation between the global diamond industry in West Africa, the ideology of Pan-Africanism and policies to control migration and citizenship rights. Its central argument is that this industry not only provided more opportunity for migrant labourers, it also increased colonial and postcolonial anxieties on how to best develop the nation and contributed to make ideas of nation and citizenship more exclusive. This work will shift our attention from movements of people along the Global South/Global North axis to the deeper histories of migration taking place within the African continent.