Post-Emancipation Indenture and Migration

Maurits S. Hassankhan is a historian from Suriname. His research interests are indentured labour, migration, diaspora and development, inter-ethnic relations and history of Indians in Suriname. He is the co-editor of the Historical Database Suriname (HDS) that includes databases on indentured labourers in Suriname.

Kalpana Hiralal is a professor of History in the School of Social Sciences at Howard College at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Her two key areas of interest are, Gender and South Asian Diaspora and Gender and Resistance in South Africa. She has several published works in these fields.

Cristiana Bastos is an anthropologist at the University of Lisbon, Portugal. Her previous appointments were in the United States and Brazil. Her research addresses health, colonial biopolitics, plantation labor and racialization processes.

Lomarsh Roopnarine is a Professor of Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Jackson State University. He has published on the South Asian Diaspora in the Caribbean. His book, The Indian Caribbean: Migration and Identity in the Diaspora was the 2018 recipient of The Caribbean Studies Association (CSA) Gordon K. & Sybil Lewis Book Award.