Postcolonial Netherlands : Sixty-five Years of Forgetting, Commemorating, Silencing

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One of the last boats carrying 'repatriates' from Indonesia arriving in the Netherlands in about 1962.By far the largest number of migrants from the former colony disembarked between 1945 and the mid 1950s.The last, minor peak in 1962 was caused by the handover of New Guinea to the United Nations and hence, indirectly, to the Republic of Indonesia.(collection international institute for social history) de col on iz at ion, m igr at ion a n d t h e post col on i a l bon us 25 gration and exogamy have blurred the borders between them and the surrounding society.Equally, there was no natural sense of solidarity between migrants from different colonies: Dutch with colonial roots associated themselves with the Netherlands East Indies, Suriname or the Antilles, but rarely with the broader context of colonialism itself. 2The three postcolonial migrations more or less succeeded each other.This meant that the migrants arrived in a country that was becoming more clearly postcolonial over time.Immigration from Indonesia peaked in the first five years after the Second World War, coming to a halt by the early 1960s.At the beginning of this period the Netherlands was destitute, to the extent that many Dutch were themselves emigrating.Fifteen years later, by 1970 1980 1990 2000 2008 Total 11.4 13.0 14.1 14.9 15.90 16.4 population million million million million million million indisch dutch

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Oostindie, G. J. (2011). Postcolonial Netherlands : Sixty-five Years of Forgetting, Commemorating, Silencing. Amsterdam University Press. https://doi.org/10.5117/9789089643537