Postcolonial Netherlands : : sixty-five years of forgetting, commemorating, silencing / / Gert Oostindie ; [translation, Annabel Howland]

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 o...

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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press,, 2011.
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (290 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).
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Table of 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.