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Postcolonial Netherlands : sixty-five years of forgetting, commemorating, silencing / Gert Oostindie ; [translation, Annabel Howland]
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Oostindie, Gert, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Postkoloniaal Nederland. English.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indonesians--Netherlands.
- Indonesians.
- Surinamese--Netherlands.
- Surinamese.
- Netherlands Antilleans--Netherlands.
- Netherlands Antilleans.
- Postcolonialism--Netherlands.
- Postcolonialism.
- Netherlands--Emigration and immigration.
- Netherlands.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (290 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1 ed.
- Place of Publication:
- 2025.
- Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- 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.
- Contents:
- Table of Contents; Introduction; Decolonization, migration and the postcolonial 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; Acknowledgments; index of people, organizations and memorial sites.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Feb 2021).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0https://www.aup.nl/en/publish/open-access
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed October 10 2025)
- ISBN:
- 1-003-70183-3
- 1-04-078421-6
- 1-283-25927-3
- 9786613259271
- 90-485-1402-9
- 9781003701835
- OCLC:
- 751962342
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