Insecurities of Expulsion

In 1972 Ugandan president Idi Amin expelled close to 80000 South Asians of Ugandan heritage from the country by dictatorial decree. In <i>Insecurities of Expulsion</i> Anneeth Kaur Hundle revisits this weighty historical event arguing that it is neither an exceptional nor a parochial event neither a result of primordial Afro-South Asian racial conflict nor an opening into a redemptive search for Afro-South Asian interracial solidarities. Hundle explores the aftermaths and continuous nature of the expulsion event examining its effects and affects; the images representations and differentiated experiences and memories of the event; and the tense and ambivalent practices of citizenship sovereignty and governance that have emerged in the decades following the expulsion. She examines Afro-Asian entanglements in what she describes as transcontinental Uganda through the lenses of race ethnicity class caste religion gender and sexuality. Throughout Hundle argues for stronger attention to knowledge production on global Afro-South Asian connections and the continued dynamics of community citizenship and identity on the African Continent as central to envisioning Black African self-determinism racial reconciliation and interracial pluralisms during shifting imperial postcolonial nationalist and geopolitical times.