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Postcolonial Netherlands
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 290

Postcolonial Netherlands

"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 Dutch language and culture as well as a strong rhetorical argument ('We are here because you were there') were strong assets of the first generation. This 'postcolonial bonus' indeed facilitated their integration. In the process, the initial distance to mainstream Dutch culture diminished. Postwar Dutch society went through serious transformations. Its once lily white population now includes two million non-Western migrants and the past decade witnessed heated debates about multiculturalism. The most importan...

Paradise Overseas
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 220

Paradise Overseas

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2005
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  • Publisher: MacMillan

Presents a tour around the main themes of Dutch Caribbean history and its contemporary legacies. Drawing on expertise in Caribbean and Latin American studies, this work posits an analysis of the Dutch Caribbean in a comparative framework. It is aimed at historians, anthropologists and political scientists alike.

Decolonising the Caribbean
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 296

Decolonising the Caribbean

Annotation Elizabeth A. Kaye specializes in communications as part of her coaching and consulting practice. She has edited Requirements for Certification since the 2000-01 edition.

Realm Between Empires
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 348

Realm Between Empires

"The Dutch Atlantic during an era (following the imperial moment of the seventeenth century) in which Dutch military power declined and Dutch colonies began to chart a more autonomous path. A revisionist history of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world, a counterpoint to the more widely known British and French Atlantic histories"--

Dutch Colonialism, Migration and Cultural Heritage
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 374

Dutch Colonialism, Migration and Cultural Heritage

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008-01-01
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Migration flows in the former Dutch colonial orbit created an intricate web connecting the Netherlands to Africa, Asia and the Americas; Africa to the Americas and to Asia; in the nineteenth century Asia to the Americas, with, in the post-Second World War period, the direction of migration shifting to the Netherlands. Some of these migrations were voluntary, others were forced; they helped to create colonial societies that were never typically Dutch, but did have Dutch characteristics. Power imbalance, ethnic differences and creolization characterized the cultural configuration of these colonial societies. This book, with contributions by a number of Dutch scholars, provides state-of-the-art discussions on these migration histories. In addition, it presents reflections on the ways this past and its repercussions are remembered (or forgotten, or actively silenced) throughout the former colonial empire.

Colonialism and Slavery
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 200

Colonialism and Slavery

A surprising look at the history and legacy of imperialist Rotterdam. Dutch imperialism transformed Rotterdam, Netherlands from a murky wetland into Europe's largest seaport. Today, as the so-called "New Rotterdammers" flock to the urban center from former colonies, the city's complex ties to slavery around the world demand increased scrutiny. Gathering insights from an interdisciplinary group of scholars, Colonialism and Slavery confronts the lasting impact of colonization on contemporary Rotterdam's economy, politics, architecture, and art.

Fifty Years Later
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 288

Fifty Years Later

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1996
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  • Publisher: Unknown

The Dutch slave trade, slavery and abolitionism have long remained unduly neglected issues in the burgeoning international debate on capitalism, modernity, and antislavery. Fifty Years Later now offers a thorough and wide-ranging discussion of antislavery in the Netherlands and in the Dutch colonial world, and also provides a fresh contribution to the ongoing debate on the relationship between abolitionism and economic, political, and cultural modernization in the Western world at large.

Ethnicity in the Caribbean
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 258

Ethnicity in the Caribbean

Race and biologized conceptions of ethnicity have been potent factors in the making of the Americas. They remain crucial, even if more ambiguously than before. This collection of essays addresses the workings of ethnicity in the Caribbean, a part of the Americas where, from the early days of empire through today’s post-colonial limbo, this phenomenon has arguably remained in the center of public society as well as private life. These analyses of race and nation-building, increasingly significant in today’s world, are widely pertinent to the study of current and international relations. The ten prominent scholars contributing to this book focus on the significance of ethnicity for social ...

Postcolonial Migrants and Identity Politics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 271

Postcolonial Migrants and Identity Politics

These transfers of sovereignty resulted in extensive, unforeseen movements of citizens and subjects to their former countries. The phenomenon of postcolonial migration affected not only European nations, but also the United States, Japan and post-Soviet Russia. The political and societal reactions to the unexpected and often unwelcome migrants was significant to postcolonial migrants' identity politics and how these influenced metropolitan debates about citizenship, national identity and colonial history. The contributors explore the historical background and contemporary significance of these migrations and discuss the ethnic and class composition and the patterns of integration of the migrant population.

Dutch Colonialism, Migration and Cultural Heritage
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 374

Dutch Colonialism, Migration and Cultural Heritage

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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