Description
Book SynopsisWorld War II sparked a wave of decolonizations throughout the world. These transfers of sovereignty resulted in extensive, unforeseen movements of citizens and subjects to their former countries. Present-day Western Europe, France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Portugal are home to six million first-generation postcolonial migrants.
Trade Review “Together, the contributions to this collection offer an insightful and helpful overview of postcolonial migration within different national frameworks…Too often, migrants have been deemed a problem…[This volume] in comparison complicates contemporary discussions around migration and integration and points to several potential avenues for further research and contribution. It is therefore a timely addition to the rich literature on what happens when the empire, so to speak, comes home.” • Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History
“This is a stimulating book…The academic quality is very high, and the conceptual and methodological concerns are central to current debates concerning the second half of the twentieth century. The inclusion of a large geographic variety of cases is important and thought provoking.” • Nancy L. Green, L’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris
Table of Contents 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
