My paper will explore the history and historiography of labor migration across the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean in the early modern and modern period (1750-1950). Much has been written on the Mediterranean as a connective space linking territories, regions, ideas and cultures, but in fact labor migration in the Mediterranean, and the various kinds of work and recruitment processes it entailed, has received relatively scant attention by historians.
Read MoreWe are told that the sea is filling up with things we should not see - plastic things particularly, and the debris of old, often ruined, lives that linger, but should not. Out of sight, out of mind perhaps, but these things are not so very invisible, at least not anymore.
Read MoreI have encountered waterways in my research for some time: urban creeks and backwaters in New York, Melbourne, and Shanghai; liquid metaphors for capital flows in global supply chains; and the designation of the US-Mexico border in the middle of the Rio Grande.
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