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The Repatriation, Readjustment, and second-term migration of Ex-Indentured Indian Laborers from British Guiana and Trinidad to India, 1838-1955

In: New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids
Author:
Lomarsh Roopnarine. support-igitur@library.uu.nl

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Online Publication Date:
01 Jan 2009
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This article examines the readjustment and remigration of ex-indentured Indian laborers from India to the Caribbean. The author shows that there was a small but steady influx of ex-indentured Indian laborers or second-term Indian migrants to the Caribbean. The central question is why ex-indentured Indians returned to the Caribbean to again work under an abusive indenture system? The author contends that desperate conditions along with the restrictive caste structure in India as well their Caribbean experience forced ex-indentured Indian laborers to re-indenture themselves for a second and even third time.

Title:
The Repatriation, Readjustment, and second-term migration of Ex-Indentured Indian Laborers from British Guiana and Trinidad to India, 1838-1955
Article Type:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/13822373-90002459
Language:
English
Pages:
71–97
In:
New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids
In:
Volume 83: Issue 1-2
Publisher:
Brill
E-ISSN:
2213-4360
Print ISSN:
1382-2373
Subjects:
General, American Studies

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