Postcolonial Migrants and Identity Politics : : Europe, Russia, Japan and the United States in Comparison / / ed. by Ulbe Bosma, Jan Lucassen, Gert Oostindie.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Blakely, Allison,; Cohen, James,; Cohen, Nicole Leah,; Duany, Jorge,; Marques, M. Margarida,; Oostindie, Gert,; Thandi, Shinder S.,
• HerausgeberIn: Bosma, Ulbe,; Lucassen, Jan,; Oostindie, Gert,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: International Studies in Social History ; 18
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (278 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Figures and Tables --; Abbreviations --; Introduction: Postcolonial Migrations and Identity Politics: Towards a Comparative Perspective --; Chapter 1 Postcolonial Immigrants in France and their Descendants: The Meanings of France’s ‘Postcolonial Moment’ --; Chapter 2 Postcolonial Migrants in Britain: From Unwelcome Guests to Partial and Segmented Assimilation --; Chapter 3 Postcolonial Migrants in the Netherlands: Identity Politics versus the Fragmentation of Community --; Chapter 4 Postcolonial Portugal: Between Scylla and Charybdis --; Chapter 5 Return of the Natives? Children of Empire in Post-imperial Japan --; Chapter 6 Postcolonial Immigration and Identity Formation in Europe since 1945 The Russian Variant --; Chapter 7 The Puerto Rican Diaspora to the United States: A Postcolonial Migration? --; Bibliography --; Notes on Contributors --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780857453280; 9783110998283
• DOI: 10.1515/9780857453280
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Ulbe Bosma, Jan Lucassen, Gert Oostindie.

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.