The Regulation, Division, and Multiplication of Emigrant Labor The Border between Land and Sea in Colonial India, 1834–1922

• Published in: Journal of world history Vol. 32; no. 1; pp. 45 - 63
• Main Author: KOYA, RIYAD SADIQ
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Honolulu University of Hawai'i Press 01.03.2021; University of Hawaii Press
• Subjects: 19th century; 20th century; Abolition of slavery; Abolitionists; Alien labor; Alien labour; Bans; Borders; Boundaries; Boundaries (Geography); British colonialism; British Empire; Campaigns; Economic aspects; Emigration; Foreign labor; Government regulation; History; Immigrants; Labor migration; Labor mobility; Labour mobility; Land; Laws, regulations and rules; Legislation; Manual workers; Migration; Mobility; Multiplication; Overseas employment; Regulation; Social aspects; Trafficking; Voluntariness; India; Pakistan; Indian Ocean; South Asia
• ISSN: 1045-6007; 1527-8050; 1527-8050
• DOI: 10.1353/jwh.2021.0003

In this article, I argue the significance of the border between land and sea for the regulation of labor migration. I identify an early sense of this border in the East India Company’s efforts to prohibit the trafficking of slaves overseas by foreign powers. I focus on a shift in the imaginary of th...