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Postcolonial Netherlands : sixty-five years of forgetting, commemorating, silencing /

"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 th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Oostindie, Gert
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Dutch
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.
  • 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.