Betwixt the oceans: The Chief Immigration Officer in Cape Town, Clarence Wilfred Cousins (1905�1915)

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dc.contributor.authorDhupelia-Mesthrie, Uma
dc.date.accessioned2018-07-10T12:04:31Z
dc.date.available2018-07-10T12:04:31Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractDrawing on the personal and official papers of an immigration officer, this article highlights his personality, social life, and the quotidian aspects of his work at the port. By placing the officer at the centre, instead of the usual tendency in South African historiography to focus on ethnic immigration histories, one secures broader insights into the administration of policy, such as the writing test (an exclusionary mechanism) and repatriation, which are often associated with state policies against Indians. While the article draws on examples of arrivals at the port from both the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, arguing against a focus on only Indian Ocean traffic, it emphasises how arrivals from India played a role in shaping the immigration bureaucracy. While scholars have recently begun to see Cape Town as an important Indian Ocean port, this article points to settler society�s unease with what sea traffic from Bombay and Durban might bring and how Cape Town sought to establish a disconnect with the East.en_US
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dc.identifier.citationDhupelia-Mesthrie, U. (2016). Betwixt the oceans: The Chief Immigration Officer in Cape Town, Clarence Wilfred Cousins (1905�1915). Journal of Southern African Studies, 42(3): 463-481.en_US
dc.identifier.issn0305-7070
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2016.1168626
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/3871
dc.language.isoenen_US
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dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen_US
dc.rightsThis is the author-version of the article published online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2016.1168626
dc.status.ispeerreviewedTRUE
dc.subjectImmigration officeren_US
dc.subjectClarence Wilfred Cousinsen_US
dc.subjectCape Townen_US
dc.subjectSouth African historiographyen_US
dc.titleBetwixt the oceans: The Chief Immigration Officer in Cape Town, Clarence Wilfred Cousins (1905�1915)en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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