Post-Colonial Immigrants and Identity Formations in the Netherlands

Post-Colonial Immigrants and Identity Formations in the Netherlands
Author: Ulbe Bosma
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Total Pages: 504
Release: 2012
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9089644547

In this book Ulbe Bosma explores the experience of immigrants in the Netherlands over sixty years and three generations. Looking at migrants from all countries, Bosma teases out how their ethnic identities are informed by Dutch culture, and how these immigrant identities evolve over time.“Fascinating, comprehensive, and historically grounded, this essential volume reveals how the colonial past continues to shape multicultural Dutch society. . . . It is an important counterpart to work on France, Britain, and Portugal.”—Andrea Smith, Lafayette College

Emerging Memory

Emerging Memory
Author: Paul Bijl
Publisher: Heritage and Memory Studies
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2015
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789089645906

Dutch commentators repeatedly claim that their nation has forgotten its violent colonial past. In this compelling study, however, Paul Bijl demonstrates that photographs of colonial atrocities have appeared consistently in the Dutch public sphere and remain widely available in print, on television, and online. The nation, he argues, has not forgotten; rather, the Dutch have failed to absorb the meaning of these ubiquitous images and the scenes they depict. Ultimately, Bijl illuminates the shadowy zone between remembering and forgetting a zone populated by histories that do not correspond to the narratives we construct about the past.

Guarded Neutrality

Guarded Neutrality
Author: Susanne Wolf
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Neutrality
ISBN: 9789004209916

The internment of approximately 50,000 foreign troops in the Netherlands, provided an important showcase for the Dutch Government to demonstrate its neutral stance and its impartiality towards the all of the belligerents.

'The Eurasian Question'

'The Eurasian Question'
Author: Liesbeth Rosen Jacobson
Publisher: Uitgeverij Verloren
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2018
Genre: History
ISBN: 9087047312

‘Within the borders of these isles shall remain a race one calls Indo. Neither white, nor brown.’ This ‘Indo’ was part of the Indo-Europeans, a group of mixed indigenous and European ancestry, from the former Dutch East Indies. In almost all other Asian colonies, including British India and French Indochina, which are also covered in this study, such a group of mixed ancestry came into being. The future of these Eurasians after decolonisation was quite insecure. The European rulers, on which their status was based, were gone. The new indigenous rulers perceived them suspiciously as colonial remnants and often even as traitors. In this chaotic situation, they were forced to make a choice, between staying in the former colony or leaving for the European mother country. Did they belong in the country of their European fathers or the former colony, the country of their Asian mothers?

Window of Opportunity

Window of Opportunity
Author: Susanna Erlandsson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Cold War
ISBN: 9789155492007

Résumé en suédois et allemand.