Insecurities of Expulsion

Anneeth Kaur Hundle is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Presidential Chair in Social Sciences to Advance Sikh Studies at the University of California, Irvine.

List of Abbreviations ix Preface. From Diasporic to Transcontinental Entanglement xiii Maps xxvi Part I. Imperial Entanglements Introduction. Expulsion as Closure, Expulsion as Opening 1 1. Becoming a Racial Exile, Becoming a Black Nation: Colonial and Postcolonial Orientations 41 Part II. Entanglements of Expulsion 2. Exceptions to the Expulsion: Racial Denizenship in Amin's Uganda 91 3. Insecurities of Repatriation: From Refugee to Returnee 128 Part III. South-South Entanglements 4. Insecurities of Foreign Direct Investment: From Returnee to Investor-Citizen 173 5. Indian Ugandan, African Asian, or Both? Community-Building, Community Citizenship, and Culture and Indigeneity 207 6. Of Gendered Insecurities: Contingent and Ambivalent Feminist Afro-South Asian Intimacies and Solidarities 242 Conclusion. Toward a Transcontinental Anthropology of Afro-South Asian Entanglement 279 Postscript. Fifty Years On 301 Appendix. Active South Asian Community Associations and Institutions in Uganda since the Early 1990s 307 Notes 311 Bibliography 345 Index

"In this detailed, nuanced, and comprehensive study, Anneeth Kaur Hundle develops a complicated picture of South Asian presence, inclusion, and exclusion in contemporary Uganda that grapples not only with the 1972 expulsion but its articulation through different regimes and global economic shifts in capitalism. She offers a rare look at race and racialization in Africa and the Indian Ocean region that goes beyond colonialism or South Africa. In this way, Hundle paves a new path to think about race, imperialism, and capitalism." - Bettina Ng'weno, author of (Turf Wars: Territory and Citizenship in the Contemporary State) "In Insecurities of Expulsion, Anneeth Kaur Hundle skillfully demonstrates how the 1972 Asian expulsion event in Uganda lingers discursively, affectively, and ideologically across various publics, reproducing racialized diasporic subjectivities, nativist nationalisms, and Eurocentric narratives about the 'illiberal' African state. This is pathbreaking work that reconfigures anthropology away from its enduring area studies preoccupations and toward a transnational and imperial accounting." - Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, New York University