Chinese New Migrants In Suriname: The Inevitability Of Ethnic Performing (uva Proefschriften)
2009 / English / PDF
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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.
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.
