The Making of Citizenship
(Gebundene Ausgabe)
The Case of the East African Asians in Tanzania and Uganda, c. 1945-1972
- wbg Academic in der Verlag Herder GmbH
- 1. Auflage 2022
- Gebunden
- 340 Seiten
- ISBN: 978-3-534-40712-5
- Bestellnummer: P3407129
Citizenship is a process in motion. When empires crumbled and nation-states arose, subjects became citizens. Independence in East Africa brought the transition from imperial to national citizenship. And therefore, those who had arrived in East Africa via imperial channels of migration had to navigate a new world. Asians in Tanzania and Uganda often found themselves out of place and out of space as their social and economic opportunities were shrinking.
This book compares the process of citizenship making in 1960s Tanzania and Uganda and how it enabled African politicians to implement more stringent migration, economic policy in a changing global context of migration systems and how finally this narrowing of national space culminated in the expulsion of the Asian minority from Uganda in 1972.
Autorin
Julia B. Held works as a Policy Advisor in London. She studied History, Political Science, Egyptology and Classical Archaeology at the University of Heidelberg. As a Research Fellow, she was a member of the Leibnizpreis Research Group Global Processes at the University of Konstanz from where she received her doctorate in History in 2020.