The Palgrave Handbook of Bondage and Human Rights in Africa and Asia (Hardcover)

1. Introduction.- 2. The Domestic Outsider: Interpreting Contradictions in the Status of Maidservants in Qing China.- 3. The Abolition of Slavery and the Status of Slaves in Late Imperial China.- 4. Labour Migration to the French Islands of the Western Indian Ocean, 1830?60.- 5. Relationships between Economic and Environmental Factors, and Labour Migration to Reunion, 1820-60.- 6. Trafficking, Slavery, Peonage: Dilemmas and Hesitations of Colonial Administrators in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Malaysia.- 7. Disciplining the Hill Tribes into Coolie Labour for Road Construction.- 8. Mediated (Im)mobility: Indian Labour Migration to Ceylon under the Kangany System (c. 1850-1940).- 9. Anti-indenture as Antislavery: Early Indian Nationalism and the Trope of Slavery.- 10. Changing Masters in the Longue Duree: Slavery and Abolition in Egypt and the Sudan, 1798-1882.- 11. Abolitionism and the African Slave Trade in the Ottoman Empire (1857?1922).- 12. The Abolition of Slavery and the ‘New Labour Contract’ in French Equatorial Africa, 1890?1914.- 13. The Persistence of Slavery in the Southern Red Sea Region in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.- 14. Sex, Money, and Modern-Day Slavery: Trafficking of Women and Children in China.- 15. Rural Women as Property in Zambia: The AIDS Exit.- 16. Child Labour and its Interaction with Adult Labour in Ivory Coast (1980-2002).- 17. Trauma and Inter-Communal Relations among a Captive Population: Preliminary Findings from the Malakal POC, South Sudan.- 18. The Persistence of Debt Bondage in South India: Market and Political Alliances.- 19. Debt Bondage and Vulnerable Work in South Indian Silk Processing.- 20. Indebted to Work: Bondage in Brick Kilns.