The ten contributions to this volume provide a new perspective on the history of convicts and penal colonies.

1. Transportation, deportation and exile: perspectives from the colonies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Clare Anderson, Christian G. De Vito and Ulbe Bosma; 2. The Andaman Islands penal colony: race, class, criminality and the British Empire Clare Anderson; 3. A natural hulk: Australia's carceral islands in the colonial period, 1788¿1901 Katherine Roscoe; 4. The carceral colony: colonial exploitation, coercion and control in the Netherlands East-Indies, 1810s¿1840s Matthias van Rossum; 5. Ethnoscapes of exile: political prisoners from Indochina in a Colonial Asian world Lorraine M. Paterson; 6. The transformation from Hokkaido from a penal colony to a homeland territory Minako Sakata; 7. Exile as imperial practice: Western Siberia and the Russian Empire, 1879¿1900 Zhanna Popova; 8. The Depósito de Degredados in Luanda, Angola: binding and building the Portugese Empire with convict labor, 1880s to 1932 Timothy J. Coates; 9. Punitive enganglements: Conected histories of penal transportation, deportation, and incarceration in the Spanish Empire (1830s¿1898) Christian G. De Vito; 10. Fearing the flood: transportation as counterinsurgency in the US-occupied Philippines Benjamin D. Weber 11. The 'other' at home: deportation and transportation of Libyans to Italy during the colonial era (1911¿1943) Francesca Di Pasquale.