1st Edition
Chinese New Migrants in Suriname The Inevitability of Ethnic Performing
By Paul Tjon Sie Fat
Copyright 2009
478 Pages
by
Routledge
478 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book covers various aspects of New Chinese Migration in Suriname in the 1990s and early 2000s. It is an ethnography of New Chinese Migrants in the context of South- South migration, but also a first ethnography of Chinese in Suriname, as well as an analysis of Surinamese ethnic discourse and ethnopolitics. Starting in the 1990s, renewed immigration from China changed the dynamics of the... Read more
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS , ILLUSTRATIONS 1. INTRODUCTION 2. CHINESE ETHNIC IDENTITY IN SURINAME 3. FUIDUNG’ON HAKKAS – THE ‘OLD CHINESE’ 4. THE NEW CHINESE 5. THE PRC PRESENCE IN SURINAME 6. MIGRATION AND CHANGING PUBLIC PERCEPTIONS 7. THE ‘OLD CHINESE’ ROUTE TO PARTICIPATION: POLITICS OF CHINESENESS 8. THE NEW CHINESE ROUTE TO PARTICIPATION: CHINATOWN POLITICS 9. THE 2005 LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS 10. CONCLUSIONS, EPILOGUE, APPENDIX 1: The Frame of Chinese Stereotypes APPENDIX 2: Tong’ap Lives through Chinese Texts APPENDIX 3: Chinese Ethnic Identification in Suriname APPENDIX 4: GLOSSARY OF CHINESE TERMS, LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS, MAPS, REFERENCES, ENGLISH SUMMARY, NEDERLANDSE SAMENVATTING.
Biography
Paul Brendan Tjon Sie Fat (Paramaribo, 1966), studied Sinology at Leiden University. He returned to the Netherlands to commence his PhD research at the University of Amsterdam in 2001, bringing to bear his background in Sinology, linguistics, identity issues and anti-discrimination NGOs on the problems of modern migration and citizenship in Suriname.
