Western investment and aid infrastructure created the networks enabling Asian migration to Europe

Evidence

Early postwar migration from Asia to European countries took place in the context of decolonization. Western penetration through trade, aid, and investment had created the material means, the cultural capital, and the communicative networks necessary for migration. Labor migration from the Indian subcontinent to Britain in the 1950s was soon followed by family reunion and settlement. Movements from Indo-China to France and from Indonesia to the Netherlands had both political and economic motivations. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3874

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the gift/infrastructure paradox — Western colonialism built the transport and communication networks that later carried migrants to European metropoles, like the grafting/tamarisk infrastructure theme.