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Title Postcolonial migrants and identity politics : Europe, Russia, Japan and the United States in comparison / edited by Ulbe Bosma, Jan Lucassen and Gert Oostindie
Published New York, NY : Berghahn Books, 2012
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Description 1 online resource (x, 259 pages)
Series International studies in social history ; v. 18
International studies in social history ; v. 18.
Contents Introduction : postcolonial migrations and identity politics : towards a comparative perspective / Ulbe Bosma, Jan Lucassen and Gert Oostindie -- Postcolonial immigrants in France and their descendants : the meanings of France's "postcolonial moment / James Cohen -- Post colonial migrants in Britain : from unwelcome guests to partial and segmented assimilation / Shinder Thandi -- Postcolonial migrants in the Netherlands : identity politics versus the fragmentation of community / Gert Oostindie -- Post-colonial Portugal : between Scylla and Charybdis / Margarida Marques -- Return of the natives? : children of empire in postimperial Japan / Nicole Leah Cohen -- Postcolonial immigration and identity formation in Europe since 1945 : the Russian variant / Allison Blakely -- The Puerto Rican diaspora to the United States : a postcolonial migration / Jorge Duany
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century -- Case studies
Postcolonialism -- Case studies
Immigrants -- Case studies
Group identity -- Case studies
Identity politics -- Case studies
HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century.
Emigration and immigration
Group identity
Identity politics
Immigrants
Postcolonialism
Genre/Form Case studies
History
Form Electronic book
Author Bosma, Ulbe, 1962- editor.
Lucassen, Jan, editor.
Oostindie, Gert, editor.
LC no. 2011040767
ISBN 9780857453280
0857453289