Geographies and Histories of Unfreedom: Indentured Labourers and Contract Workers in Mauritius
通过分析对劳动力流动的各种控制形式，探讨了不同时期劳工移民形式的连续性与差异，以及它们所体现的不自由程度。以毛里求斯为例，研究了契约劳工和合同移民在跨国流动中的强制性与随后在种植园和工厂中的不流动性如何塑造其不自由程度，并连接了殖民时期的契约劳工制度与当代合同劳工招募。
Abstract This article contributes to debates on the continuities and divergences of different forms of labour migration over time and the degrees of unfreedom they manifest. It suggests that levels of (un)freedom can usefully be understood by analysing the various forms of control exercised over the movement of labour. More specifically, the article explores how unfreedom can be understood as a particular assemblage of spatial practices that simultaneously compel migration and enforce spatial confinement. With a focus on Mauritius, it is argued here that the coerced or manipulated nature of the transnational movements of indentured and contract migrant labour combined with their subsequent immobility on plantations and in factory compounds shapes the degree of their unfreedom. Additionally, the article extends the historical trajectory of much previous work on unfreedom by exploring the connections between the colonial regime of indentured labour and the contemporary recruitment of contract labour migrants.