Marina Carter

Marina Carter obtained her doctorate in history at the University of Oxford. She was a Research Fellow working on the Indian Uprising in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh and is currently an Honoary Fellow of Edinburgh University’s Centre for South Asian Studies.

She has published extensively in the field of Asian migration and in particular on the Mascarene Islands. Her publications include Abacus & Mah Jong: Chinese Settlement and Socio-Economic Consolidation in Mauritius (2009) with J. Ng Foong Kwong, Coolitude: An Anthology of the Indian Labour Diaspora (2002) with Khal Toorabully and Voices from Indenture: Experiences of Indian Migrants in the British Empire (1996).