WE REFUGEES? Re-defining Britain's East African Asians Saima Nasar As a coda to decades of Africanisation policies, thousands of East African Asians were confronted with mass displacement dunng the 1960s and 1970s. I Popularly associated with the Ugandan Asian expulsion in 1972, when Idi Amin enforced a series of presidential decrees that called for all South Asians to leave Uganda within just ninety days, this displacement took place irrespective of citizenship status. It followed the propagation of inflammatory rhetoric, such as the notion that South Asians were a self-segregating community of bloodsuckers' that had 'sabotaged the economy'c? Patterns of Ugandan Asian deracination could be traced, and indeed were mirrored elsewhere in the region. Faced with social, ethno-political and economic persecution, South Asians were also excluded from the new nation states of Kenya and Tanzania. Altogether, approximately 103,500 East Africa Asians relocat...
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