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Journal articles on the topic "Indentured labourers"

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Mishra, Amit Kumar. "Indian Indentured Labourers in Mauritius." Studies in History 25, no. 2 (2009): 229–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/025764301002500203.

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Sharma, Umesh, and Helen Irvine. "The social consequences of control: accounting for indentured labour in Fiji 1879-1920." Qualitative Research in Accounting & Management 13, no. 2 (2016): 130–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/qram-04-2015-0039.

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Purpose This is a study of the social consequences of accounting controls over labour. This paper aims to examine the system of tasking used to control Indian indentured workers in the historical context of Fijian sugar plantations during the British colonial period from 1879 to 1920. Design/methodology/approach Archival data consisting of documents from the Colonial Secretary’s Office, reports and related literature on Indian indentured labour were accessed from the National Archives of Fiji. In addition, documented accounts of the experiences of indentured labourers over the period of the study gave voice to the social costs of the indenture system, highlighting the social impact of accounting control systems. Findings Accounting and management controls were developed to extract surplus value from Indian labour. The practice of tasking was implemented in a plantation structure where indentured labourers were controlled hierarchically. This resulted in their exploitation and consequent economic, social and racial marginalisation. Research limitations/implications Like all historical research, our interpretation is limited by the availability of archival documents and the theoretical framework chosen to examine these documents. Practical implications The study promotes a better understanding of the practice and impact of accounting controls within a particular institutional setting, in this case the British colony of Fiji. Social implications By highlighting the social implications of accounting controls in their historical context, we alert corporations, government policy makers, accountants and workers to the socially damaging effects of exploitive management control systems. Originality/value The paper contributes to the growing body of literature highlighting the social effects of accounting control systems. It exposes the social costs borne by indentured workers employed on Fijian sugar plantations.
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Brown, Laurence. "Experiments in indenture: Barbados and the segmentation of migrant labor in the Caribbean 1863-1865." New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids 79, no. 1-2 (2008): 31–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/13822373-90002500.

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Focuses on indentured and other labour migration from Barbados to other parts of the Caribbean starting in 1863. Within the context of the sugar estate-dominated agriculture of Barbados, as well as its high population density, the author describes the policies and decisions of the governors and local assemblies regarding emigration. He points out how the sugar industry's need for labourers remained dominant in the policies, but that the drought in 1863 caused privations and unrest among the labourers, resulting in more flexibility regarding allowance of indentured emigration schemes and recruitment, such as toward St Croix and Antigua, and later toward British Guiana, and to a smaller degree Jamaica. He discusses how this led to rivalries regarding labour immigrants between colonies, and further attempts at restrictions on labour emigration and recruitment in Barbados.
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Brown, Laurence. "Experiments in indenture: Barbados and the segmentation of migrant labor in the Caribbean 1863-1865." New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids 79, no. 1-2 (2005): 31–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22134360-90002500.

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Focuses on indentured and other labour migration from Barbados to other parts of the Caribbean starting in 1863. Within the context of the sugar estate-dominated agriculture of Barbados, as well as its high population density, the author describes the policies and decisions of the governors and local assemblies regarding emigration. He points out how the sugar industry's need for labourers remained dominant in the policies, but that the drought in 1863 caused privations and unrest among the labourers, resulting in more flexibility regarding allowance of indentured emigration schemes and recruitment, such as toward St Croix and Antigua, and later toward British Guiana, and to a smaller degree Jamaica. He discusses how this led to rivalries regarding labour immigrants between colonies, and further attempts at restrictions on labour emigration and recruitment in Barbados.
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Maurer, Jean-Luc. "The Thin Red Line between Indentured and Bonded Labour: Javanese Workers in New Caledonia in the Early 20th Century." Asian Journal of Social Science 38, no. 6 (2010): 866–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853110x530778.

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AbstractThis short article presents a relatively unknown historical experience of indentured labour having seen thousands of Javanese workers being sent from the end of the 19th century to the outbreak of WWII by the colonial authorities of the Netherlands Indies to New Caledonia, a French colony in the south-west Pacific. Being drawn from a comprehensive study of historical sociology written in French and published in 2006, it summarises the reasons behind this odd labour migration movement and focuses on the recruitment and working conditions of these indentured labourers. Its main argument is to show that there are many points of comparison between past and present forms of labour migration and that one finds some elements of bondage in both of them, the red line being therefore very thin indeed between indentured labour of the colonial period and present day globalisation migrant workers recruitment and employment practices.
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Robie, David. "The paradox of two countries called Fiji." Pacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa 13, no. 2 (2007): 207–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/pjr.v13i2.915.

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This book, Stopover, is a poignant documentary of the lives of the cane families and a story of migration. It is illustrated with some 59 sepiatoned Connew portraits and other studies, seven diaspora snapshots, two grainy Speight television images and a faded image of two unkown men, earlier descendants (c. 1940's) of the girmitiya, 19th century indentured labourers brought to Fiji by the British colonialists to establish the sugar plantations.
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Kothari, Uma. "Geographies and Histories of Unfreedom: Indentured Labourers and Contract Workers in Mauritius." Journal of Development Studies 49, no. 8 (2013): 1042–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2013.780039.

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Mohabir, Nalini. "Kala Pani: Aesthetic Deathscapes and the Flow of Water after Indenture." Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas 5, no. 3 (2019): 293–314. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/23523085-00503003.

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This article focuses on the kala pani (dark waters) as a deathscape particular to indentured labourers and their descendants. Following a historical discussion of representations of the kala pani, the author turns to contemporary artists Maya Mackrandilal and Andil Gosine to explore how their artistic engagements are rerouting the flows of the kala pani away from discourses of caste stigma or the finality of (social) death to a reckoning of past and future time for those living in the diasporic space of North America.
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Pandey, Suesh Kumar, and GAURAV SHUKLA. "Cultural Change and Economic Achievements of Descendants of Indian Indentured Labourers in Fiji." International Journal of Indian Culture and Business Management 1, no. 1 (2020): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/ijicbm.2020.10030040.

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Pandey, Suesh Kumar, Gaurav Shukla, and Shiu Lingam. "Cultural change and economic achievements of descendants of Indian indentured labourers in Fiji." International Journal of Indian Culture and Business Management 22, no. 3 (2021): 417. http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/ijicbm.2021.114082.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Indentured labourers"

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De, Silva Maureen. "Javanese indentured labourers in British North Borneo, 1914-1932." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2009. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/29298/.

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This thesis examines the historical realities of Javanese indentured labour in British North Borneo from 1914 to 1932. The empirical findings are interpreted in terms of the theoretical debate surrounding the indentured labour system, seen either as a 'new system of slavery', or as a particular variety of 'free labour'. By using primary and secondary sources, the study analyses the dynamics of the Javanese indentured labour system, i.e. from the negotiation between the colonial states for the procurement of Javanese labour, to the actual recruitment in Java, and working conditions in British North Borneo under civil contracts, which sanctioned criminal punishments. The thesis argues that the desperate need for labour, the prevailing conditions in Java, the regulated recruitment and immigration procedures, the characteristics of their indenture experience on British North Borneo enterprises, the post-indenture options available to the labourers, the inferior position of the Company government vis-a-vis the Dutch authorities, and the incessant disagreement between employers' representatives, which weakened their collective bargaining power, have all helped to depict Javanese indentured labour experience in British North Borneo not so much as slavery in a disguised form, but as a unique variety of 'free labour'. This thesis contributes to the wider history of colonial labour in three ways. Firstly, it provides an extensive and analytical review of Javanese indentured labour in British North Borneo during the period of imperialism and colonialism, which has not been attempted before. Secondly, it goes beyond the study of colonial and capitalist interests, moving towards an analysis of the experience of indenture by Javanese immigrants themselves. Thirdly, in contrast with previous studies depicting Javanese labourers as part of British North Borneo's local history, this thesis frames the story in terms of the wider debate surrounding the system, thus providing a modest contribution from British North Borneo to continuing deliberations on this controversial topic.
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Ali, Alicia Alison. "Chinese indentured labourers in British Guiana (1838-1900) : an exploration of colonial text." Thesis, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/11621.

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During the post-emancipation period of British Guiana (1838-1900) Chinese indentured servants were imported into the colony for the purpose of working on sugar plantations. It is argued in this paper that colonial literature constructed two competing themes regarding Chinese identity in British Guiana. Using colonial discourse analysis, specifically Foucault, Said and Bhabha, this thesis explores how dementi's narrative represented the Chinese immigrant as an "ideal immigrant" who embraced the sugar plantation of British Guiana, while Kirke's memoirs portray an "exotic immigrant" in need of constant vigilance. Although the writings of Clementi and Kirke attempt to organize, order and assert power over the colonized space of British Guiana, these two authors reveal tension and ambivalence between the colonized Chinese subject and the dominant colonial discourse.
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Meyer, Anja. "An assessment of metabolic bone disease in the skeletal remains of Chinese indentured mine labourers from the Witwatersrand." Diss., 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/33240.

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An essential part of bioarchaeology is the study of diet and nutrition and its effects on the general health of a person. Interpretation of nutritional and metabolic disease related pathologies often provide additional insight into the daily social and cultural practices of people. It is therefore also an essential part of understanding differences amongst past populations from archaeological contexts and provides an alternative means for cross referencing historical accounts. In this study the skeletal remains of 36 Chinese indentured mine labourers, who worked and died on the Witwatersrand mines during the period AD 1904-1910, were assessed for any signs of metabolic or nutritionally related signs of disease. Historical information suggests that these indentured Chinese labourers came from poverty stricken communities in China where disease and malnutrition were often encountered. Once in South Africa they were again subjected to the harsh living and working conditions associated with mining. Analyses suggest that all 36 individuals were males between the ages of 16 and 45 years, with the majority being of young adult age (20-34 years). Pathology that could be observed included a high prevalence of nutrition-related changes and linear enamel hypoplasia which suggests that the Chinese miners had been subjected to long periods of malnutrition and illness throughout childhood continuing into adulthood. Nevertheless, a large proportion of lesions associated with malnutrition showed some degree of healing. A high frequency of traumatic lesions, specifically peri-mortem fractures, was observed and may have contributed to the death of many of the Chinese miners. It therefore seems that even though the healing of pathological lesions associated with malnutrition indicated a period of improved nutritional intake, possibly during their time on the Witwatersrand mines, the high prevalence of peri-mortem fractures attests to the hazardous working conditions associated with deep-level mining. In order to aid in the interpretation of skeletal pathology associated with metabolic and nutritional diseases non-specific signs of disease observed in a cadaver skeletal sample with known causes of death (related to specific metabolic or nutritional diseases) were compared to pathology observed in the Chinese miners. This provided pathological patterns which enabled a better interpretation of the pathology observed in the Chinese skeletal remains.<br>Dissertation (MSc)--University of Pretoria, 2014.<br>am2014<br>Anatomy<br>unrestricted
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Pillay, Kathryn. "A cross-generational study of the perception and construction of South Africans of Indian descent as foreigners by fellow citizens." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/11406.

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This thesis examined how the perceptions of South Africans of Indian descent as foreign, by fellow South African citizens, have changed or the extent to which they have remained the same from the time of the first arrival of indentured labourers from India in 1860 to the present. In so doing the study also revealed how those classified as ‘Indian’ in South Africa have constructed their identities in relation to, and because of, differing social, political and economic contexts. In order to achieve the aims of this research, the study was periodised based on the key political transitions over the last 150 years. As a result, the constructions and perceptions of ‘Indians’ by others were explored from the period of indenture under colonialism (1860-1910), through to the formation of Union (1910-1948), into apartheid (1948-1994) and ultimately through to democracy (1994-present). The data collection methods included documentary sources, oral histories, and semi-structured interviews. The main documentary sources collected included articles from The Mercury and Ilanga newspapers, spanning 150 years but taken from the key periods as discussed above. In addition it was deemed equally important to conduct in-depth interviews with South African families of Indian descent. The trajectories of five such families, and of the individuals within these family units, were explored, covering the period from the arrival of the first immigrant from India to South Africa, to the present day. The findings reveal that the perceptions of ‘Indians’ as foreign have endured more than it has altered in the psyche of fellow South Africans through each of the political dispensations and because the dominant racial discourse has persisted throughout the various periods albeit through varying mechanisms and diverse narratives justifying it at different times. Although democracy brought with it hope for a more inclusive South Africa with the African National Congress-dominated parliament adopting a constitution based on shared citizenship, the basis of the policies that followed however represent the antithesis of inclusion by entrenching existing notions of difference through the perpetuation of ‘race’ categories that were previously reproduced and legitimised by the repealed apartheid-era Population Registration Act. Blatant xenophobic discourse against South Africans of Indian descent are indeed still apparent, with the latest expressions centering around notions of autochthony which imply that ‘Indians’ are not indigenes of South Africa and hence should have no claim to its resources.<br>Ph.D. University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 2014.
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Books on the topic "Indentured labourers"

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Khan, Munshi Rahman. Autobiography of an Indian indentured labourer. Shipra Publications, 2005.

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Anderson, Robert K. The identification of elements to consider in the integration of families of Caribbean origin with a traditional Presbyterian congregation: With special reference to descendants of indentured labourers from South Asia. [s.n.], 1992.

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Majumdar, Biplab K. Exportation of Indian labours. Punthi Pustak, 1994.

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van Rooy, Bertus. English in South Africa. Edited by Markku Filppula, Juhani Klemola, and Devyani Sharma. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199777716.013.017.

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South African English (SAfE) traces its roots to the 1820 British settlers. From here, it spread to the descendants of Indian indentured labourers, who later shifted to English as home language. English diffused as second language to the indigenous African population and speakers of Afrikaans, and today occupies an important position as language of government, education, business, and the media. SAfE has borrowed vocabulary from Afrikaans, ancestral Indian languages, and in recent years also from other South African languages. Phonetically, SAfE has raised front vowels, the short front /i/ has allophones that range from high front in KIN to centralized in PIN, and a back vowel realization of START. Non-native varieties display various degrees of vowel contrast reduction. The modal must is used more extensively than in other varieties of English, while Black SAfE also uses the progressive aspect for a wider timespan than just temporariness.
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(Editor), Jeevan Prakash, and Kathinka Kerkhoff (Translator), eds. Autobiography of an Indian Indentured Labourer. Shipra Publications,India, 2006.

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Kiple, Kenneth F. Biology and African Slavery. Edited by Mark M. Smith and Robert L. Paquette. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199227990.013.0014.

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This article reviews scholarship on the biology of African slaves. Mother Africa ensured that her sons and daughters could tolerate a disease environment sufficiently harsh that it served as a barrier to European outsiders for many centuries, keeping them confined to the coast and, save for some notable exceptions, away from the interior. Falciparum malaria and yellow fever, however, the chief ramparts in this barrier, did not remain confined to Africa. Rather, they reached the Americas with the Atlantic slave trade to rage among non-immune white and red people alike. But they largely spared blacks who were relatively resistant to these African illnesses, as well as to the bulk of those Eurasian diseases whose ravages were mostly directed at indigenous peoples. The sum of these pathogenic susceptibilities and immunities added up to the elimination of the latter (and white indentured servants) as contenders for tropical plantation labourers, and placed that onus squarely on the shoulders of the Africans. Yet, such a nomination in an age of rationalism bore with it the notion that black people, because of their ability to resist fevers, were sufficiently different biologically from Europeans as to constitute a separate branch of humankind and a lower one at that.
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Book chapters on the topic "Indentured labourers"

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Gounder, Farzana. "Gender Performativity in Subaltern Life Stories: Changing Discourses of Indentured Women as Mothers and Labourers." In Indentured and Post-Indentured Experiences of Women in the Indian Diaspora. Springer Singapore, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1177-6_2.

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Schuler, Monica. "The recruitment of African indentured labourers for European colonies in the nineteenth century." In Colonialism and Migration; Indentured Labour Before and After Slavery. Springer Netherlands, 1986. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4354-4_7.

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Emmer, P. C. "The meek Hindu; the recruitment of Indian indentured labourers for service overseas, 1870–1916." In Colonialism and Migration; Indentured Labour Before and After Slavery. Springer Netherlands, 1986. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4354-4_9.

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Allen, Margaret. "Circuitous Routes." In Indians and the Antipodes. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199483624.003.0003.

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The chapter traces the history of several families whose ancestors migrated as indentured labourers to sugar plantations in Fiji, the Caribbean, and to the French colonies of Réunion and New Caledonia. Once indenture ended these migrant workers travelled to Australia in search of a better life. These stories of migration across imperial boundaries, struggle against racial discrimination and restrictive immigration rules offer evidence of agency and enterprise, rather than benign profiles of helpless indentured labourers. This chapter sheds new light on the issues of gender and agency in migrant lives through the stories of matriarchs who showed courage and enterprise in keeping their families united and making a living in the hostile environment of colonial Australia. It also traces intergenerational mobility and shows how the later generations proudly reconstruct that genealogy of displacement, discrimination and agency as badges of their historic transnational identity.
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MAHASE, RADICA. "Imperialist Contradictions: Health Issues and Indentured Indian Labourers." In Legacy of Slavery and Indentured Labour. Routledge, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315271989-5.

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Prakash, Brahma. "Materiality." In Cultural Labour. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199490813.003.0004.

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Bidesia can be literally translated as ‘the theatre of the migrants’ or theatre of the indentured labourers. It is a popular ‘folk performance’ from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh regions in eastern India. The performance emerged as a cultural response to the British era colonial out-migration of the nineteenth and early twentieth as a text of tribulation of those who were left behind, remembering those who often forcefully migrated to bides (foreign land) and pardes (another region). Based on the contemporary Bidesia (theatre of migrant labourers) in Bihar, this chapter argues how materiality remains core to the aesthetics of cultural labour and perhaps one of the main reasons for the denigration of ‘folk performances’ of the subaltern communities in India. While the power of bidesia rests in its materiality, the chapter shows how the same materiality become the problem of the bourgeois discourse.
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Harrigan, Michael. "The labouring body." In Frontiers of servitude. Manchester University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9781526122261.003.0004.

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This chapter explores how French texts echoed shared ideas about labour in the plantation context. Plantation labour employed the bodies of slaves in new, proto-industrial processes. Within this context the concept of accumulation was central to understanding slaves and the free. Commentators show the importance of numeracy to colonial knowledge, which organised labour, space, and productivity. This knowledge implied forms of belonging and exclusion. Slave labour remained human labour and could be disrupted by social dynamics and desire. The distinctions between slave and free even encompassed time, which was inseparable from accumulation and power. Comparison with free indentured labourers illustrates the condition of the slave, and comparison with animals demonstrates what was gratifying or repellent about slave labour.
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van Onselen, Charles. "Mozambican Labour Regimes and the Eastern Main Line." In The Night Trains. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197568651.003.0004.

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The South African mining industry profited from the slave- and forced-labour regimes that preceded it in the adjacent Portuguese colony of Mozambique. Many of the earliest migrants were part of a labour force ‘recruited’ through coercion. Black Mozambicans later preferred to work as cheap, indentured migrant labourers rather than face working for no or low wages in their own country. The chapter explains how this helped underpin the illusion that black labour was somehow free, mobile and voluntary. But as southern Mozambique became progressively more underdeveloped economically, the need to coerce black labour became less necessary and the system was said to be operating on a wholly voluntary basis as part of an economy dominated by ‘market forces’.
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Buckingham, Jane. "Disability, Leprosy, and Plantation Health among Indian Indentured Labourers in Fiji, 1879–1911." In Social Aspects of Health, Medicine and Disease in the Colonial and Post-colonial Era. Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003140597-12.

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Leckie, Jacqueline. "‘A Rich Tapestry’." In Indians and the Antipodes. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199483624.003.0009.

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This chapter presents a micro-history of Sir Anand Satyanand, New Zealand’s first governor general of Asia-Pacific origin. Sir Anand Satyanand’s maternal and paternal great-grandparents migrated from India to Fiji as indentured labourers in the 1880s. His father moved to Auckland for his medical education and practice and his mother was a trained nurse in Auckland. Sir Anand was trained as a lawyer and eventually was appointed New Zealand’s governor general. His life story reflects the colonial and postcolonial interconnections between India and the Antipodes and the strength of the Indian contribution to the making of New Zealand. This chapter demonstrates how racial boundaries are transcended by Indian migrants through struggle, educational priority, familial relations, and intergenerational mobility.
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