Publications

Journal Article (5)

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Journal Article
Slama, Martin and Iain Walker. 2022. Plurilocal communities in the Indian Ocean world. Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies 6(1): 3–9. DOI: https://doi.org/10.26443/jiows.v6i1.119 .
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Journal Article
Walker, Iain. 2021. The Hadrami diaspora: a "diaspora for others" in the Indian Ocean. Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies 4(2): 188–211. DOI: https://doi.org/10.26443/jiows.v4i2.83.
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Journal Article
Walker, Iain and Martin Slama. 2021. The Indian Ocean as a diasporic space: a conceptual introduction. Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies 4(2): 76–90. DOI: https://doi.org/10.26443/jiows.v4i2.78.
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Journal Article
Story, Joanna and Iain Walker. 2016. The impact of diasporas: markers of identity. Ethnic and Racial Studies 39(2): 135–141. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2016.1105999.
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Journal Article
Walker, Iain, Marie-Aude Fouéré , and Nadine Beckmann. 2015. Un explorateur allemand à Ngazidja en 1864: Otto Kersten. Études Océan Indien 53-54: 349–393.

Book Chapter (17)

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Book Chapter
Walker, Iain. 2023. The Hadrami diaspora: a plurilocal mahjar. In: Dalia Abdelhady and Ramy Aly (eds.). Routledge handbook on Middle Eastern diasporas. London ; New York: Routledge, pp. 367–382.
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Book Chapter
Walker, Iain. 2022. Mayotte, France and the Comoros: mimesis and violence in the Mozambique Channel. In: Iain Walker and Marie-Aude Fouéré (eds.). Across the waves: strategies of belonging in Indian Ocean island societies. African Social Studies Series 44. Leiden; Boston: Brill, pp. 200–223.
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Book Chapter
Walker, Iain and Marie-Aude Fouéré. 2022. Introduction: strategies of belonging in Indian Ocean island societies. In: Iain Walker and Marie-Aude Fouéré (eds.). Across the waves: strategies of belonging in Indian Ocean island societies. African Social Studies Series 44. Leiden; Boston: Brill, pp. 1–18.
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Book Chapter
Walker, Iain. 2019. The Comoros: strategies of islandness in the Indian Ocean. In: Toyin Falola, R. Joseph Parrott, and Danielle Porter Sanchez (eds.). African islands: leading edges of empire and globalization. Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora. Rochester; Woodbridge: University of Rochester Press; Boydell & Brewer, pp. 370–396.
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Book Chapter
Walker, Iain. 2019. The production of identities on the island of Mayotte: a historical perspective. In: Burkhard Schnepel and Tansen Sen (eds.). Travelling pasts: the politics of cultural heritage in the Indian Ocean world. Crossroads 1. Leiden; Boston: Brill, pp. 246–270.
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Book Chapter
Walker, Iain. 2019. Al-muwāṭana wa-l-intimā bain al-ḥaḍārim fī Kīniyā. In: Noel Brehony (ed.). Ḥaḍara mawt wa al-mahjar: al-siyāsat al-Yamaniyah wa al-huwiyat wa al-hijrah. Translated Books 5. Riyadh: King Faisal Centre for Research and Islamic Studies, pp. 219–245.
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Book Chapter
Walker, Iain. 2018. Ali Mfaume: a comorian hub in the western Indian Ocean. In: Burkhard Schnepel and Edward A. Alpers (eds.). Connectivity in motion: island hubs in the Indian Ocean world. Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 159–180.
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Book Chapter
Ali, Damir Ben and Iain Walker. 2017. Attempts at fusion of the Comorian educational systems: religious education in Comorian and Arabic and secular education in French. In: Iain Walker (ed.). Contemporary issues in Swahili ethnography. 1. ed. London; New York: Routledge, pp. 196–214.
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Book Chapter
Walker, Iain. 2017. Introduction: contemporay issues in Swahili ethnography. In: Iain Walker (ed.). Contemporary issues in Swahili ethnography. 1. ed. London; New York: Routledge, pp. 1–6.
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Book Chapter
Walker, Iain. 2017. Citizenship and belonging among the Hadhramis of Kenya. In: Noel Brehony (ed.). Hadhramaut and its Diaspora: Yemeni politics, identity and migration. Library of Modern Middle-East Studies 196. London; New York: Tauris, pp. 164–186.
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Book Chapter
Walker, Iain, Manuel João Ramos, and Preben Kaarsholm. 2017. Introduction. In: Iain Walker, Manuel João Ramos, and Preben Kaarsholm (eds.). Fluid networks and hegemonic powers in the Western Indian Ocean. Ebook'IS. Lissabon: Centro de Estudos Internacionais, pp. 11–17.
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Book Chapter
Walker, Iain and Joana Story. 2017. The impact of diasporas: markers of identity. In: Iain Walker and Joana Story (eds.). The impact of diasporas: markers of identity. Ethnic and Racial Studies. London; New York: Routledge, pp. 1–7.
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Book Chapter
Walker, Iain. 2016. Al-huwiyyāt al-ḥaḍramiyya fī al-mamlaka al-ʿarabiyya al-saʿūdiyya. In: Noel Brehony and Saud al Sarhan (eds.). Iʿādat bināʾ al-Yaman: Al-taḥaddiyāt al-siyāsiyya wa-l-iqtiṣādiyya wa-l-ijtimāʿiyya. Riyadh: King Faisal Centre for Research and Islamic Studies, pp. 62–84.
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Book Chapter
Walker, Iain. 2015. African island migration. In: Frank D. Bean and Susan K. Brown (eds.). Encyclopedia of migration. Dordrecht: Springer, pp. 1–8.
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Book Chapter
Cinnamon, John and Iain Walker. 2015. Comoros. In: Thomas Riggs (ed.). Worldmark encyclopedia of religious practices 2. 2. ed. Farmington Hills: Gale, Cengage Learning, pp. 357–363.
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Book Chapter
Walker, Iain. 2015. A diaspora-for-others: Hadramis in the world. In: Nando Sigona, Alan Gamlen, Giulia Liberatore, and Hélène Neveu Kringelbach (eds.). Diasporas reimagined: spaces, practices and belonging. Oxford: Oxford Diasporas Programme, pp. 83–86.
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Book Chapter
Walker, Iain. 2015. Hadrami identities in Saudi Arabia. In: Noel Brehony and Saud Al-Sarhan (eds.). Rebuilding Yemen: political, economic and social challenges. Berlin: Gerlach Press, pp. 42–60.

Working Paper (2)

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Working Paper
Walker, Iain. 2023. Creating self and other: discourses of inclusion and exclusion on Mayotte. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Working Papers 212. Halle/Saale: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology.
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Working Paper
Walker, Iain. 2016. Place and space on Ngazidja and among Comorians in Zanzibar. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Working Papers 172. Halle/Saale: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology.

Issue (3)

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Issue
Slama, Martin and Iain Walker (eds.). 2022. Plurilocal communities in the Indian Ocean world. Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies 6(1).
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Issue
Walker, Iain and Martin Slama (eds.). 2021. The Indian Ocean as a diasporic space. Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies 4(2).
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Issue
Story, Joanna and Iain Walker (eds.). 2016. The impact of diasporas: markers of identity. Ethnic and Racial Studies 39(2).

Other (2)

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Other
Walker, Iain. 2022. The history of the Comoro Islands. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History. New York: Oxford University Press.
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Other
Walker, Iain. 2020. Myth or wishful thinking? The Portuguese on the Comorian island of Ngazidja. Ports and trans-ports: evolution and revolution(s) in the Indian Ocean world; proceedings of the Workshop; GUtech; March 4-6, 2019. Aachen: Freunde des Reiff.

Collected Edition (4)

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Collected Edition
Walker, Iain and Marie-Aude Fouéré (eds.). 2022. Across the waves: strategies of belonging in Indian Ocean island societies. African Social Studies Series 44. Leiden; Boston: Brill.
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Collected Edition
Walker, Iain, Manuel João Ramos, and Preben Kaarsholm (eds.). 2017. Fluid networks and hegemonic powers in the western Indian Ocean. Ebook'IS. Lisboa: Centro de Estudos Internacionais.
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Collected Edition
Walker, Iain. 2017. Contemporary issues in Swahili ethnography. 1. ed. London; New York: Routledge.
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Collected Edition
Walker, Iain, Story, Joanna (ed.). 2017. The impact of diasporas: markers of identity. 1. ed. Ethnic and racial studies. London; New York: Routledge.

Monograph (1)

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Monograph
Walker, Iain. 2019. Islands in a cosmopolitan sea: a history of the Comoros. London: Hurst.
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