Postcolonial Netherlands

The current Dutch population counts two million non-Western migrants.Postcolonial Netherlands, which elicited much praise but also controversy following the publication of its Dutch edition, is the first scholarly monograph to address these themes in an internationally comparative framework.

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

Introduction, Decolonization, migration and the postc olonial bonus, Citizenship: rights, participation, identification, The struggle for recognition: war and the silent migration,The individualization of identity, Imagining Colonialism, Transnationalism: A Turning Tide? An International Perspective, 'Postcolonial' (in the) Netherlands, NOTES, Bibliography, Acknowledgements, Index of people, organizations and memorial sites.