Postcolonial Netherlands: Sixty-Five Years of Forgetting, Commemorating, Silencing [Paperback]

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 Netherlandsaddresses 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.

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