Description du projet
En savoir plus sur l’émigration forcée des Chinois au XIXe siècle
Les recherches sur le commerce de coolies en Chine au XIXe siècle — l’achat nominalement rémunéré de paysans pour l’exportation de main-d’œuvre — ont tendance à représenter les femmes et les enfants de manière insuffisante. En tenant compte de toutes les personnes déplacées, le projet TRACMI, financé par l’UE, utilisera des techniques de données de pointe pour analyser les composantes intégrales des réseaux de trafic, des négociants et intermédiaires à but lucratif à l’institutionnalisation de l’État. TRACMI emploiera une combinaison de données ouvertes et ses propres matériaux d’archives collectés et à collecter. En plus d’être ajoutés à la base de données ESTA (Exploring Slave Trade in Asia), les résultats seront publiés sous la forme d’un document et d’un article de journal. En définitive, TRACMI permettra de mieux comprendre l’émigration chinoise forcée au XIXe siècle.
Objectif
Despite the excellent work of historians in the past three decades to provide a comprehensive history of the Chinese coolie trade, the trafficking of women and children remains still underrepresented. This innovative project will use cutting-edge data technology to track, for the first time, the networks operating the trade in children, women, and male labourers in an integrative perspective. It will trace how the private sector, such as intermediaries and companies, and the nations involved shaped the history of international forced migration in nineteenth-century China. Relying on my supervisor's technical expertise, I will mobilize a wealth of quantifiable data accessible on international human transportation in the form of an openly available database to analyse and depict the systems connecting these various forms of bondage. In the past four years as a postdoctoral researcher, I have collected an outstanding amount of data from unpublished multilingual source material, scattered in archives in Europe, Asia and America. During the MSCA-PF, I will undertake further research in Cuba, the UK, France, Spain and Germany to gather the sources needed to complete the datasets and to publish the results in a monograph and a journal article. The data collection will convey a novel contribution to the existing database project Exploring Slave Trade in Asia (ESTA), an international collaboration by the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam, the École Normale Supérieure (ENS) de Lyon, the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (BCDSS) and Linnaeus University. The database will be the structure for a future document preservation project to pursue in more advanced grants. My training at the ENS and the BCDSS will strengthen my specialization as a sinologist, integrate me in state-of-the-art scholarship on Asian bondage, and equip me with the technical and academic abilities needed to boost my career prospects.
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Programme(s)
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
Régime de financement
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European FellowshipsCoordinateur
69342 Lyon
France