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UNINA9910141116003321 |
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Autore |
Oostindie Gert |
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Titolo |
Postcolonial Netherlands : sixty-five years of forgetting, commemorating, silencing / / Gert Oostindie ; [translation, Annabel Howland] [[electronic resource]] |
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Amsterdam University Press, 2011 |
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Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , 2011 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-25927-3 |
9786613259271 |
90-485-1402-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (290 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Indonesians - Netherlands |
Surinamese - Netherlands |
Netherlands Antilleans - Netherlands |
Postcolonialism - Netherlands |
Netherlands Emigration and immigration |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Feb 2021). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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diminishing ties to their international origins and that for newer Dutch generations, multiculturalism has less and less importance. |
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