Postcolonial Netherlands : sixty-five years of forgetting, commemorating, silencing /
"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 th...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Text in English; translated from the Dutch. |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
2010.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "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"--EBL |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (287 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-280) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789048514021 9048514029 9089643532 9789089643537 |