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Chinese New Migrants in Suriname

The Inevitability of Ethnic Performing

Paul Tjon Sie Fat author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vossiuspers UvA

Published:8th Sep '09

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This book covers various aspects of New Chinese Migration in Suriname in the 1990s and early 2000s. It is an ethnography of New Chinese Migrants in the context of South- South migration, but also a first ethnography of Chinese in Suriname, as well as an analysis of Surinamese ethnic discourse and ethnopolitics. Starting in the 1990s, renewed immigration from China changed the dynamics of the Surinamese Chinese community, which developed from a Hakka enclave to a culturally and linguistically diverse, modern Chinese migrant group. Local positioning strategies of Chinese had always depended on ethnic entrepreneurship and political participation, but were now complicated by anti-immigrant sentiments.

ISBN: 9789056295981

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 1051g

478 pages