Status Updates From Grenskolonialisme

The Haitian revolution occurred, it says here, between 1971 and 1804. What a fantastical misprint!

Following Radhika Mongia's Migration and Empire, argues indentured labour from India replaced slavery to maintain human labour to plantations - although looking at the dates and locations given here it does notxseems it was a direct process.

Discussion of colonalism from 16th century as the origin of bordrr and migration politics.
I think of domestic plumbing systems - you want to flow to be (a) controllef and (b) to go in one direction eg if Britain allows Catholics, Quakers, 'Puritans' and other god awful people to go to the north american colonies, it certainly doesn't want them to flow back...let alone the people who were already there!

The Mediterranean sea as a paradise for tourists and a mass grave for migrants is not a contradiction, but a reflection of our global apartheid.

- reminds me of reading Braudel when in the 16th century there was a flow of people in the other direction from the West into the Ottoman empire, and I recall that paradise comes from the Persian (Farsi?) Meaning (walled) garden

Contrasts tourists and capital with refugees in the Mediterranean. The former permitted (even encouraged) to move freely, the latter policed.

As with the term slave, she argues, we use words like migrant or refugee or illegal without considering the violent implications. Thus she is going to prefer to refer to people made into migrants in this book.
I now begin to have a feeling why this book has 179 pages of text... not that I disagree or disapprove, but a lazy and a imprecise use of language certainly makes it easier and faster to (mis) communicate

Slave not an objective term - it masks the violence involved and implies a natural or inevitable state; some therefore prefer to use something like 'enslaved person' to draw attention to what was done to the individual.

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