Tag Archives: Migration

Plural Pasts in Southeast Asian Port Cities

Posted on 19. October 2016 by

By Su Lin Lewis, University of Bristol Conflict and division characterize the way we often think of race relations in the colonial era, but the social history of Asia’s most multi-ethnic cities gives us a different view. The colonial scholar … Continue reading →

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From Rural to City Dwellers: A New Book on Indians in Kenya

Posted on 29. August 2016 by

Sana Aiyar, Indians in Kenya: The Politics of Diaspora, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2015, 384 pp., $49.95 / £36.95 / €45.00. Reviewed by Saima Nasar, University of Birmingham Indians have contributed to Kenya’s multiracial tapestry for centuries. At Independence, … Continue reading →

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Black London: Two New Books on the Postcolonial British Capital

Posted on 7. June 2016 by

Marc Matera, Black London: The Imperial Metropolis and Decolonization in the Twentieth Century, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2015, 414 pp., $29.95 / £22.95, ISBN: 9780520284302 Kennetta Hammond Perry, London is the Place for Me: Black Britons, Citizenship and the … Continue reading →

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Conflict or Brotherhood? Two Studies of Muslim-Jewish Relations in Urban France

Posted on 14. April 2016 by

Ethan B. Katz, The Burdens of Brotherhood: Jews and Muslims from North Africa to France, Cambridge, Mass./ London: Harvard University Press, 2015, 480 pp, $35.00/ £25.95/ €31.50, ISBN: 9780674088689. Maud S. Mandel, Muslims and Jews in France: History of a … Continue reading →

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Hotels for Refugees: Colonialism, Migration, and Tourism in Lisbon

Posted on 2. March 2016 by

Christoph Kalter, University of California, Berkeley Lisbon is a peculiar metropolis. The city is the capital of a nation that one of its leading intellectuals, the sociologist Boaventura de Sousa Santos, has qualified as semi-peripheral. On the one hand, Lisbon … Continue reading →

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What’s in a Grid? Finding the Form of Settler Colonialism in Melbourne

Posted on 11. February 2016 by

Nadia Rhook, La Trobe University In recent years Melburnians have been educated about an episode of Australian history previously little known in non-Indigenous circles. A play, Coranderrk: we will show the country, has been performed in theatres around Melbourne, and this … Continue reading →

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Imperial Cities as Cultural Nodes: A View from Early Twentieth-Century Tokyo

Posted on 13. January 2016 by

Jordan Sand, Georgetown University I recently published a collection of essays exploring the culture of the Japanese empire. It proved impossible to talk about this subject without talking about other empires, which provided the institutional models and many of the material … Continue reading →

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Revolutionary Chic: Left-Wing Exiles, Design, and Urbanism in Mexico City

Posted on 3. December 2015 by

Randal Sheppard, Universität zu Köln Mexico City was one of the most important and culturally vibrant hubs of political exile in the Western Hemisphere during the twentieth century. However, the scholarly literature about this phenomenon has so far been limited … Continue reading →

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Historicizing “Urbanity”: Buenos Aires in the epidemic years

Posted on 3. December 2015 by

Antonio Carbone, Freie Universität Berlin Scholars in the field of urban studies have been arguing for decades about what exactly the object of their research could be. At a first glance the ‘urban’ appears as a clearly defined field of … Continue reading →

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The Latin Quarter and the Third World

Posted on 3. December 2015 by

Michael Goebel, Freie Universität Berlin Between the two World Wars, imperial centers such as London or Paris became bridgeheads for the spread of nationalism throughout the colonial world. As I argue in my recent book about Paris as an Anti-Imperial Metropolis, migration to … Continue reading →

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