(Im)mobility in a sea of migration : race, mobilities, and transnational families in Zanzibar and Oman, 1856-2019
The central aim of this dissertation is to examine the history of connections between Omanis and Zanzibaris from the point of view of non-elites. The principle actors of histories of movements and connections between East Africa and the Arabian Peninsula has, in past scholarship, generally been elite men, principally statesmen and merchants. Many of the core assumptions about this history that have shaped past scholarship have been based on the priorities of this cast of actors whose goals and motives have been recorded in archival documents. Using oral history, this dissertation is able to offer a history "from below" that instead privileges the experiences of women and the rural poor. This research is based principally on interviews in Pemba, rural Unguja, and Oman. By shifting the central actors in this history, this dissertation is able to make several important contributions. It highlights the important divisions between Arabs in East Africa, a racial category too often discussed as if it represented a unified bloc. Further, it offers immobility as a crucial missing piece in this history that has been most often typified by the mobility of its most elite actors, arguing that mobility has been too central in our understanding of transnational communities.
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- Material Type
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Theses
- Authors
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Marshall, Judith K.
- Thesis Advisors
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Fair, Laura
- Committee Members
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Hawthorne, Walter
Moch, Leslie
Monson, Jamie
Smith, Aminda
- Date Published
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2021
- Subjects
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Transnationalism
Immigrants
Oral history
Civilization--West Indian influences
Civilization--West African influences
Civilization--Welsh influences
Civilization--Tibetan influences
Civilization--Thai influences
Civilization--Syrian influences
Civilization--Swedish influences
Civilization--Soviet influences
Civilization--Slovenian influences
Civilization--Sicilian influences
Civilization--Serbian influences
Civilization--Semitic influences
Civilization--Scots-Irish influences
Civilization--Sarmatian influences
Civilization--Pure Land influences
Civilization--Polynesian influences
Civilization--North African influences
Civilization--Moroccan influences
Civilization--Mongolian influences
Civilization--Kalmyk influences
Civilization--Jaina influences
Civilization--Indonesian influences
Civilization--East Asian influences
Civilization--Czech influences
Civilization--Cuban influences
Civilization--Cretan influences
Civilization--Chilean influences
Civilization--Caribbean influences
Civilization--Canadian influences
Civilization--Belgian influences
Civilization--Azorean influences
Civilization--Assyro-Babylonian influences
Civilization--Armenian influences
Civilization--Andalusian influences
Civilization--Albanian influences
Civilization
History
Emigration and immigration
Relations
Africa
Middle East
Africa, East
Arabian Peninsula
Oman
Tanzania--Zanzibar
- Program of Study
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History - Doctor of Philosophy
- Degree Level
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Doctoral
- Language
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English
- Pages
- viii, 226 pages
- ISBN
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9798759960430
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- https://doi.org/doi:10.25335/t97q-7h95