The introduction presents “the insecurities of expulsion” as an overarching analytic concept, describing its components and their interrelation. It reframes Uganda’s1972 Asian expulsion as a “global critical event,” arguing that its aftermaths linger in contemporary and transcontinental Uganda. It introduces the term “expulsion exceptionalism” to indicate the ways in which Uganda, Black Africa, Idi Amin, and the 1972 Asian expulsion are understood through global and racialized imaginaries of illiberalism in relation to an imagined liberal West and a liberal Indian nation. It introduces critical and feminist anthropological approaches to the study of citizenship, sovereignty, and governance as well as normative studies of race, class, and citizenship in East Africa. It critiques other parochialized and overdetermined scholarly, disciplinary, and area studies frames surrounding the expulsion, arguing for a transcontinental anthropology of Afro–South Asian entanglement. Finally, it offers methodological notes, definitions of key terminology, and chapter summaries.