| Description |
1 online resource (287 pages) : illustrations |
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1. Decolonization, migration and the postcolonial bonus -- 2. Citizenship : rights, participation, identification -- 3. The struggle for recognition : war and the silent migration -- 4. The individualization of identity -- 5. Imagining colonialism -- 6. Transnationalism : a turning tide? -- 7. An international perspective -- 8. 'Postcolonial' (in the) Netherlands |
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1. Decolonization, migration and the postcolonial bonus -- From the Indies/Indonesia -- From Suriname -- From the Antilles -- Migration and integration in the Netherlands -- The disappearance of the postcolonial community and bonus -- 2. Citizenship: rights, participation, identification -- The right to remain Dutch -- Postcolonial organizations: profiles and meaning -- Political participation -- Ambivalent identities -- 3. The struggle for recognition: war and the silent migration -- From war to exodus -- War and bersiap -- The 'cold' reception -- The uprooting of the Moluccans -- Veterans and the Indisch community -- Memorial culture -- West Indian and Dutch stories and silences around war and exodus -- 4. The individualization of identity -- Identity: individual perception, public significance -- Indisch identity, from Tjalie to Indo4Life -- Moluccan identity around and after the rms -- Diversity without unity: Caribbean identity -- Recognition and erosion -- 5. Imagining colonialism -- The Companies -- 'Something magnificent was done there!' -- The West Indies: without pride -- Colonial slavery, postcolonial settlement -- Unfamiliar discourses and new silences -- Pleasing everyone, all of the time? -- 6. Transnationalism: a turning tide? -- Decolonization, migration circuits and generations -- Citizens and their transnational orientations -- Postcolonial organizations and transnational politics -- Cultural transnationalism, 'diaspora' and community -- 7. An international perspective -- Migrations in post-war Europe -- France: republican dilemmas -- The United Kingdom: Britishness and multiculturalism -- Portugal: reluctant re-migrants -- A typical case: slavery in European memorial culture -- Colonial past and postcolonial migrations: a broad comparison -- Typically Dutch? -- 8. 'Postcolonial' (in the) Netherlands -- Postcolonial migrants: integration, identification, community -- New ideas about the 'Netherlands' -- Intermezzo: international heritage policy -- Postcolonial studies in the Netherlands, a missed opportunity? -- The future of the colonial past |
| Summary |
"The Netherlands is home to one million citizens with roots in former Dutch colonies, such as Indonesia, Suriname, and the Antilles. Due to this influx of non-Western immigrants, a nationwide debate over multiculturalism has been waged over the past decade. Postcolonial Netherlands addresses themes of multicultural integration, such as state-sponsored financial gestures towards first-generation immigrants, and their subsequent results. Taking on a controversial thesis, Gert Oostindie claims that children of immigrants feel diminishing ties to their international origins and that for newer Dutch generations, multiculturalism has less and less importance"--EBL |
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History |
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Postcolonialism |
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Citizenship |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-280) and index |
| Notes |
Text in English; translated from the Dutch |
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Indonesians -- Netherlands
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Surinamese -- Netherlands
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Netherlands Antilleans -- Netherlands
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Postcolonialism -- Netherlands
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Humanities.
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History.
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History: specific events and topics.
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National liberation and independence, post-colonialism.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
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Indonesians.
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Netherlands Antilleans.
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Postcolonialism.
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Surinamese.
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Postkolonialismus
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| SUBJECT |
Netherlands -- emigration & immigration |
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Netherlands -- history |
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Netherlands.
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Niederlande
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789048514021 |
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9048514029 |
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9089643532 |
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9789089643537 |
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