Zwischen Geld, Gewalt und Rassismus. Neue Perspektiven auf die koloniale Schweizer Söldnermigration nach Südostasien, 1848–1914

Kurzbeschreibung: „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 19th century. By combining colonial, migration and mercenary history, this article not only contributes to a revision of the statistics of Swiss emigration, it also provides new perspectives on an entangled history between Switzerland and Southeast Asia. I... Mehr ...