Abstract:Between money, violence and racism: new perspectives on colonial Swiss mercenary migration to South East Asia, 1848Asia, -1914 The historiography of Swiss overseas emigration has tended to ignore the migration of 5,600 Swiss colonial mercenaries who served in the Dutch East Indies between 1848 and 1914. This article argues for conceiving these mercenaries as life-cycle military labour migrants and aims to place them in the migration history of the 19 th century. By combining colonial, migration and mercenary … Show more
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