Empire and Asian migration : sovereignty, immigration restriction and protest in the British settler colonies, 1888-1907 / Jeremy C. Martens.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martens, Jeremy C., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emigration and immigration.

History.

Colonies.

Great Britain--Colonies--Emigration and immigration--History--19th century.

Great Britain.

Asia--Emigration and immigration--History--19th century.

Asia.

Physical Description:

288 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Crawley, Western Australia : UWA Publishing, 2018.

Summary:

Empire and Asian Migration makes a vital contribution to current historical scholarship on the under-researched imperial connections between colonial sovereignty, white settlers' opposition to Asian migration, and the emergence of the Gandhian anti-colonial movement in the British Empire. This book is the first historical study explicitly to situate the serious imperial tensions arising from global Asian migration within the context of the limited sovereignty exercised by the self-governing colonies and dominions of the British Empire. In particular, it links geographically and temporally diverse trans-colonial popular protests around Asian immigration between 1888 and 1913 to a fundamental constitutional weakness common to all the settler colonies. The book also argues that the evolution of Gandhian satyagraha after the Boer war should be analyzed in tandem with concurrent populist white settler protests against Asian immigration to southern Africa.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Colonial sovereignty, the Afghan crisis, and anti-Chinese legislation in New South Wales, 1888 p. 15

Chapter 2 Colonial sovereignty and immigration restriction in Australia and New Zealand, 1888-1896 p. 59

Chapter 3 Indian migration, settler protest and the creation of Natal's Immigration Restriction Act, 1897 p. 83

Chapter 4 Japan and the shaping of Australia's immigration restriction legislation, 1897-1905 p. 109

Chapter 5 Colonial sovereignty and popular opposition in New Zealand to the introduction of Chinese labour into the Transvaal, 1903-1904 p. 149

Chapter 6 Chinese labour and responsible government in the Transvaal, 1904-1907 p. 181

Chapter 7 Racial populism, Indian resistance and the beginnings of satyagraha in the Transvaal, 1902-1906 p. 207.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

174258974X

9781742589749

OCLC:

1023533124