Across the Waves: Strategies of Belonging in Indian Ocean Island Societies

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This collection offers insights into how the people of the Indian Ocean islands of Zanzibar, Madagascar, Mauritius and the Comoros negotiate their social and political belonging in these societies, created through waves of migration across the ocean. Contents Notes on Contributors Introduction: Strategies of Belonging in Indian Ocean Island Societies 1 Belonging and Identity in a Mobile World 2 Political, Affective and Social Belonging 3 Claiming Belonging 4 Belonging as Possession 5 Partial, Multiple and Not-Belonging 6 Maintaining Belonging PART 1 Zanzibar 1. Zanzibariness in the Shadow of an Ambiguous Documentary State 1 Belonging (or Not) in Zanzibar 2 Fixing, Controlling, Dividing 3 From Citizenship Patchwork to Exclusionary Politics 3.1 Navigating Rights and Privileges 3.2 Zanzibar’s 1964 Revolution and Its Racial Stance 4 Sorting out the Internal Alien 4.1 Denying Belonging, Denying Citizenship 4.2 Africanizing for Nation-Building 5 Driving out the Invading Other 5.1 Firstcomers, Newcomers in the 2000s 5.2 Ambiguous ID s 6 Conclusion 2. Marriage, Mobility, and Belonging of Asian Women in Zanzibar 1 Introduction 2 Framing the Experience of Asian Women in Zanzibar 3 Marriage and the Shifting Status of Asian Women in Post-Revolutionary Zanzibar 4 Patterns of Marriage and Mobility Today 5 Conclusion 3. Rearing Like the State: Belonging, Child Rearing, and Greeting in Zanzibar 1 Introduction 2 Child-Rearing and the State in Zanzibar 3 Children as Belonging ‘to’ the Community 4 Losing malezi ya jamii, Compromising Respect and Morality 5 Claiming Belonging ‘through’ Children’s Greetings 5 Negotiating Zanzibari Belonging through Child Rearing and Greetings 6 Conclusion 4. To Manifest African Destiny: The (Spiritual) Revolution, Pentecostal Belonging, 1 Introduction 2 National Imaginaries and Religion 3 Christianity in Zanzibar, Pentecostalism and the 2012 Tensions 4 The Past, Arab Rule, and the Revolution 5 The Fight for Freedom? 6 The (Spiritual) Revolution Continued: The Union 7 Discussion and Concluding Remarks List of Interviews Cited PART 2 Madagascar, Mauritius and Mayotte 5. On Belongings and Betrayals. Migratory Projects and Moral Obligations among Youth 1 Introduction 2 Hope and Despair in a Malagasy Port City 3 Ways of Belonging in Urban Mahajanga 4 Shifting Grounds of Belonging. The Frustrations with an Egalitarian Ethos and Its Moral Implications 5 When Trust Flips into Mistrust. The (Un)making of Kin 6 On the Move. Migration Pathways of Young Majungais ​7 Conclusion 6. Identity, Citizenship and Belonging in Postcolonial Mauritius 1 Introduction 2 Multiculturalism, Citizenship and Belonging 3 Identity, Division and Belonging in the Wake of the Independence of Mauritius 4 Multiculturalism in Postcolonial Mauritius 5 Communalism and the Constitution 6 The Best Loser System 7 Language as a Dividing Factor 8 Consolidating the Social Fabric 9 Conclusion Press Articles 7. I Came, Therefore I Belong: Unsettling Origin-Stories on Mainland Mauritius 1 A Decolonial History of the Indian Ocean Islands 2 Belonging to/Owning Land: The Coloniser-Enslavers’ Myth of Origin 3 Sites of Memory: The Celebratory ‘Arrival’ of Indentured Workers versus the ‘Abolition’ of the Colonial System of Slavery 4 Conclusion 8. Mayotte, France and the Comoros: Mimesis and Violence in the Mozambique Channel 1 Mimetic Beginnings 2 The Historical Context and Some Statistics 3 Wandzuani and Wajeni: Who are the Clandestins? 4 Were It Not for the French… 5 Rejecting Ndzuani: The Mimetic Impulse Index