Postcolonial Netherlands: Sixty-Five Years of Forgetting, Commemorating, Silencing
Gert Oostindie, "Postcolonial Netherlands: Sixty-Five Years of Forgetting, Commemorating, Silencing"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 9089643532 | PDF | pages: 290 | 2.6 mb
English | 2012 | ISBN: 9089643532 | PDF | pages: 290 | 2.6 mb
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.