Postcolonial Migrants and Identity Politics

Europe, Russia, Japan and the United States in Comparison
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-85745-327-3
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 18, 278 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 546 g

Reihe: International Studies in Social History

These transfers of sovereignty resulted in extensive, unforeseen movements of citizens and subjects to their former countries. The phenomenon of postcolonial migration affected not only European nations, but also the United States, Japan and post-Soviet Russia. The political and societal reactions to the unexpected and often unwelcome migrants was significant to postcolonial migrants’ identity politics and how these influenced metropolitan debates about citizenship, national identity and colonial history. The contributors explore the historical background and contemporary significance of these migrations and discuss the ethnic and class composition and the patterns of integration of the migrant population.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bosma, Ulbe

Lucassen, Jan

Oostindie, Gert

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Historische Migrationsforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Postkoloniale Geschichte, Nationale Befreiung und Unabhängigkeit
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Tables

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Postcolonial migrations and identity politics: Towards a comparative perspective

Ulbe Bosma, Jan Lucassen and Gert Oostindie

Chapter 1. Postcolonial Immigrants in France and their Descendants: the Meanings of France’s "Postcolonial Moment"

James Cohen

Chapter 2. Postcolonial Migrants in Britain: From Unwelcome Guests to Partial and Segmented Assimilation

Shinder Thandi

Chapter 3. Postcolonial Migrants in the Netherlands: Identity Politics versus the Fragmentation of Community

Gert Oostindie

Chapter 4. Postcolonial Portugal: between Scylla and Charybdis

Margarida Marques

Chapter 5. Return of the Natives?  Children of Empire in Postimperial Japan

Nicole Leah Cohen

Chapter 6. Postcolonial Immigration and Identity Formation In Europe Since 1945: The Russian Variant

Allison Blakely

Chapter 7. The Puerto Rican Diaspora to the United States: A Postcolonial Migration

Jorge Duany

Bibliography

Notes on the Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Lucassen, Jan
Jan Lucassen is Senior Researcher at the International Institute of Social History and Professor at the Free University in Amsterdam.

Bosma, Ulbe
Ulbe Bosma is Senior Researcher at the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam.

Oostindie, Gert
Gert Oostindie is Director of the KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies in Leiden and Professor of Caribbean History at Leiden University.

Ulbe Bosma is Senior Researcher at the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam.