In 1972, Ugandan president Idi Amin expelled close to 80,000 South Asians of Ugandan heritage from the country by dictatorial decree. In Insecurities of Expulsion, Anneeth Kaur Hundle revisits this weighty historical event, arguing that it is neither an exceptional nor a parochial event, neither a result of primordial Afro-South Asian racial conflict nor an opening into a redemptive search for Afro-South Asian interracial solidarities. Hundle explores the aftermaths and continuous nature of the expulsion event, examining its effects and affects; the images, representations, and differentiated experiences and memories of the event; and the tense and ambivalent practices of citizenship, sovereignty, and governance that have emerged in the decades following the expulsion. She examines Afro-Asian entanglements in what she describes as transcontinental Uganda through the lenses of race, ethnicity, class, caste, religion, gender, and sexuality. Throughout, Hundle argues for stronger attention to knowledge production on global Afro-South Asian connections and the continued dynamics of community, citizenship, and identity on the African Continent as central to envisioning Black African self-determinism, racial reconciliation, and interracial pluralisms during shifting imperial, postcolonial, nationalist, and geopolitical times.
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Abbreviations
- Preface: From Diasporic to Transcontinental Entanglement
- Part I. Imperial Entanglements
- Introduction: Expulsion as Closure, Expulsion as Opening
- 1. Becoming a Racial Exile, Becoming a Black Nation: Colonial and Postcolonial Orientations
- Part II. Entanglements of Expulsion
- 2. Exceptions to the Expulsion: Racial Denizenship in Amin’s Uganda
- 3. Insecurities of Repatriation: From Refugee to Returnee
- Part III. South-South Entanglements
- 4. Insecurities of Foreign Direct Investment: From Returnee to Investor-Citizen
- 5. Indian Ugandan, African Asian, or Both?: Community-Building, Community Citizenship, and Culture and Indigeneity
- 6. Of Gendered Insecurities: Contingent and Ambivalent Feminist Afro–South Asian Intimacies and Solidarities
- Conclusion: Toward a Transcontinental Anthropology of Afro–South Asian Entanglement
- Postscript: Fifty Years On
- Appendix: Active South Asian Community Associations and Institutions in Uganda since the Early 1990s
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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