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Exclusion at the heart of empire : Punjabi migrants in Buenos Aires and London before the First World War Bryce, Benjamin
Abstract
This article charts the history of hundreds of Punjabi labourers who migrated to Argentina in 1912 and then onward to the United Kingdom. It argues that both worker agency and imperial concerns about mobility shaped this episode of migration and exclusion. Drawing from sources produced in Britain and Argentina in English and Spanish, it shows how both workers and bureaucrats pursued competing goals and how the ideas and activities of both groups mattered. On the one hand, it examines these migrant labourers’ voices and goals in Argentina and the United Kingdom. These Punjabi men repeatedly weighed their options and pursued opportunities for advancement, often taking advantage of their imperial subjecthood to do so. On the other hand, this research also shows how those strategies coexisted with efforts of bureaucrats in Buenos Aires and London who sought to repatriate these migrants.
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Exclusion at the heart of empire : Punjabi migrants in Buenos Aires and London before the First World War
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2023
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| Description |
This article charts the history of hundreds of Punjabi labourers who migrated to
Argentina in 1912 and then onward to the United Kingdom. It argues that both worker agency
and imperial concerns about mobility shaped this episode of migration and exclusion. Drawing
from sources produced in Britain and Argentina in English and Spanish, it shows how both
workers and bureaucrats pursued competing goals and how the ideas and activities of both
groups mattered. On the one hand, it examines these migrant labourers’ voices and goals in
Argentina and the United Kingdom. These Punjabi men repeatedly weighed their options and
pursued opportunities for advancement, often taking advantage of their imperial subjecthood
to do so. On the other hand, this research also shows how those strategies coexisted with efforts
of bureaucrats in Buenos Aires and London who sought to repatriate these migrants.
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eng
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2023-04-11
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Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
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10.14288/1.0430444
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Bryce, B. (2023). Exclusion at the Heart of Empire: Punjabi Migrants in Buenos Aires and London Before the First World War, Journal of Migration History, 9(1), 27-51.
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10.1163/23519924-09010002
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Reviewed
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Faculty
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