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The Politics of the Migrant Labor Remittance System in British Central Africa, 1930s–1960s

Anusa Daimon
African Economic History, November 2024, 52 (2) 46-79; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/aeh.52.2.46
Anusa Daimon
University of the Free State
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vol. 52 no. 2 46-79
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https://doi.org/10.3368/aeh.52.2.46
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African Economic History
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0145-2258
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2163-9108
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  • Published online November 8, 2024.
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  1. Anusa Daimon⇑
  1. University of the Free State
  1. Anusa Daimon (adaimon4{at}gmail.com) is a Research Associate with the International Studies Group at the University of the Free State in South Africa as well as a senior lecturer of African history at the University of Malawi. He is currently on a research residence stay in southern Germany as an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation research fellow with the Institut für Ethnologie at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. He works on migration, labor, politics, ethnic minorities, citizenship, statelessness, borders and borderlands across the Malawian, Zimbabwean, Mozambican and South African geospatial frontiers. He has published on the aforementioned themes in numerous refereed journals and has also worked closely with the American Council of Learned Societies—African Humanities Program (AHP); the Social Science Research Council—African Peacebuilding Network (APN); the Harry Guggenheim Foundation and the Amnesty International, Zimbabwe.
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    • Introduction
    • Labor Pacts and the Formalization of the Colonial Remittance System
    • Colonial Remittance Infrastructural Schematics and Paraphernalia
    • Remittance Technicalities and Glitches
    • Nyasa Reactions to the Remittance System
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