Postcolonial Netherlands

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

Introduction 1. Decolonization, migration and the postcolonial bonus From the Indies/Indonesia From Suriname From the Antilles Migration and integration in the Netherlands The disappearance of the postcolonial community and bonus 2. Citizenship: rights, participation, identification The right to remain Dutch Postcolonial organizations: profiles and meaning Political participation Ambivalent identities 3. The struggle for recognition: war and the silent migration From war to exodus War and bersiap The 'cold' reception The uprooting of the Moluccans Veterans and the Indisch community Memorial culture West Indian and Dutch stories and silences around war and exodus 4. The individualization of identity Identity: individual perception, public significance Indish identity, from Tjalie to Indo4Life Moluccan identity around and after the RMS Diversity without unity: Caribbean identity Recognition and erosion 5. Imagining colonialism The Companies 'Something magnificent was done there!' The West Indies: without pride Colonial slavery, postcolonial settlement Unfamiliar discourses and new silences Pleasing everyone, all of the time? 6. Transnationalism: a turning tide? Decolonization, migration circuits and generations Citizens and their transnationalorientations Postcolonial organizations and transnational politics Cultural transnationalism, 'diaspora' and community 7. An international perspective Migrations in post-war Europe France: republican dilemmas The United Kingdom: Britishness and multiculturalism Portugal: reluctant re-migrants A typical case: slavery in European memorial culture Colonial past and postcolonial migrations: a broad comparison Typically Dutch? 8. 'Postcolonial' (in the) Netherlands Postcolonial migrants: integration, identification, community New ideas about the 'Netherlands' Intermezzo: international heritage policy Postcolonial studies in the Netherlands, a missed opportunity? The future of the colonial past Notes Bibliography Acknowledgements Index of people, organizations and memorial sites