When humans become migrants

A blog containing Marie-Bénédicte Dembour's 30 episode podcast to support her book.

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Episode three: When Asians were expelled from East Africa

In this episode, I explain how the European Convention on Human Rights was not meant to reach colonial subjects. [podcast]https://blogs.brighton.ac.uk/humanrights/files/2015/01/hrm3_when_asians_were_expelled_from_east_africa-2abpyha.mp3[/podcast] I use the example of the East African Asians case. After Uganda and Kenya became independent, the governments of these countries started to make the life of the Asians who lived there increasingly difficult. Many Asians had…

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