Postcolonial Netherlands: Sixty-five Years of Forgetting, Commemorating, Silencing - Brossura

Oostindie, Gert

Brossura

ISBN 10: 9089643532 ISBN 13: 9789089643537

Casa editrice: Amsterdam University Press, 2011

Riassunto

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.

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Gert Oostindie is director of the KITLV/Royal Institute of Linguistics and Anthropology in Leiden and professor of Caribbean history at Leiden University.

Gert Oostindie is director of the Royal Institute of Linguistics and Anthropology (KITLV) in Leiden and professor of Caribbean history at Leiden University.

Dalla quarta di copertina

Nederland telt ruim een miljoen burgers met wortels in de voormalige koloniën, Indonesië, Suriname en de Antillen. Juridisch staatsburgerschap, voorgaande bekendheid met de Nederlandse taal en cultuur en een sterk retorisch argument ('Wij zijn hier omdat jullie daar waren') gaven deze migranten een vergelijkenderwijs sterke uitgangspositie. Deze 'p

Dal risvolto di copertina interno

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. The current Dutch population counts two million non-Western migrants, and the past decade witnessed heated debates about multiculturalism, the most important ones centered on acknowledgement and inclusion of colonialism and its legacies in the national memorial culture. Postcolonial Netherlands, which elicited much praise but also controversy following the publication of its Dutch edition, is the first scholarly monograph to address these themes in an internationally comparative framework.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Amsterdam University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 9089643532
• ISBN 13: 9789089643537
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 288
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile