Sudanese migration into Egyptian cities rose as colonization of Sudan peaked

Evidence

Years earlier, their ignorance about the region and its people would have made little difference, but by the 1870s, more and more Sudanese and Nubian people had moved into the cities of Lower Egypt, sometimes as slaves but increasingly as merchants and traders or doormen and gatekeepers. This meant that just as Isma`ïl’s attempt at colonizing the Sudan reached its apogee, these subjects of the Egyptian empire began to create for themselves a presence in Cairo and Alexandria. They were an active part of the increasingly diverse mosaic of the Egyptian population. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 308

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to reverse-migration dynamics in empire: subjugated peoples arriving in the metropole as free workers, mirroring patterns discussed in wider colonial studies.