Community, Memory, And Migration In A Globalizing World : The Goan Experience, c. 1890-1980

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Goans have long been a mobile community and helped to shape the contours of empires and the modern world. But the story of their migrations has not been told until now. Using rarely-consulted archives and interviews with nearly 300 people of Goan origin, this book tells the fascinating story of how and why Goans went to East Africa and then on to Canada, the UK or India. In this study of globalization from below, Frenz illuminates how Goans established communities in East Africa and explores their experience of migration as well as their memories and how these influenced their individual and collective identities. This connected history juxtaposes and bridges the tensions between a structural, external account from a global perspective and a personal, experiential, approach that reveals the perceptions and memories of the migrants themselves. Its analyses of migration processes and of economic, social, cultural and political developments are relevant beyond the specific case of the Goans. Providing novel insights into multi-stage migration movements in a long-term historical perspective, this book is a major contribution to scholarship.John Baylis, Steve Smith and Patricia Owens: Introduction Anthony McGrew: Globalization and global politics Part 1: The historical context David Armstrong: The evolution of international society Len Scott: International history, 1900-99 Michael Cox: From the end of the cold war to the new global era? Andrew Hurrell: Rising powers and the emerging global order Part 2: Theories of world politics Tim Dunne and Brian C. Schmidt: Realism Tim Dunne: Liberalism Steven L. Lamy: Contemporary mainstream approaches: neo-realism and neo-liberalism Stephen Hobden and Richard Wyn Jones: Marxist theories of international relations Michael Barnett: Social constructivism Lene Hansen: Poststructuralism Christine Sylvester: Post-colonialism Richard Shapcott: International ethics Part 3: Structures and processes Mike Sheehan: The changing character of war John Baylis: International and global security Ngaire Woods: International political economy in an age of globalization J. Ann Tickner: Gender in world politics Christian Reus-Smit: International law Richard Little: International regimes Paul Taylor and Devon Curtis: The United Nations Peter Willetts: Transnational actors and international organizations in global politics Part 4: International issues John Vogler: Environmental issues James D. Kiras: Terrorism and globalization Sheena Chestnut Greitens: Nuclear proliferation John Breuilly: Nationalism Edward Best and Thomas Christiansen: Regionalism in international affairs Matthew Watson: Global trade and global finance Tony Evans and Caroline Thomas: Poverty, development, and hunger Amitav Acharya: Human security Jack Donnelly: Human rights Alex J. Bellamy and Nicholas J. Wheeler: Humanitarian intervention in world politics Part 5: Globalization in the future Andrew Linklater: Globalization and the transformation of political community Ian Clark: Globalization and the post-cold war order