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Saskia Bonjour

Saskia Bonjour is associate professor of political science at the University of Amsterdam and principal investigator of the Strange(r) Families Project.

POSTS BY Saskia Bonjour

28 Januar 2022

Eline Westra, Saskia Bonjour

Postcolonial Migration and Citizenship in the Netherlands

Can formerly colonized subjects and their descendants be full and equal citizens of the former metropoles – and if so, what would that look like? In this blogpost, we explore these politics of belonging in European postcolonial polities by looking at different conceptualizations of the relationship between the Dutch state and Surinamese-Dutch citizens and immigrants. While Dutch government discourses tend to represent Surinamese-Dutch as too different to belong to the Dutch Nation, Surinamese-Dutch organisations claimed postcolonial citizenship as different and equal. Continue reading >>

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