1st Edition
Postcolonial Netherlands Sixty-five Years of Forgetting, Commemorating, Silencing
By Gert Oostindie
Copyright 2011
288 Pages
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Routledge
The Netherlands is home to one million citizens with roots in the former colonies - Indonesia, Suriname and the Antilles. Entitlement to Dutch citizenship, pre-migration acculturation in the Dutch language and culture as well as a strong rhetorical argument (“We are here because you were there!”) were important assets of the first generation, facilitating its integration into the Dutch society.... Read more
Introduction, Decolonization, migration and the postc olonial bonus, Citizenship: rights, participation, identification, The struggle for recognition: war and the silent migration,The individualization of identity, Imagining Colonialism, Transnationalism: A Turning Tide? An International Perspective, ‘Postcolonial’ (in the) Netherlands, NOTES, Bibliography, Acknowledgements, Index of people, organizations and memorial sites.
Biography
Gert Oostindie is director of the Royal Institute of Linguistics and Anthropology (KITLV) in Leiden and professor of Caribbean history at Leiden University.
