![]() For providing me with a desk and access to computers that allowed me to finish a large part of the text, I am grateful to the Amsterdam office of International Institute of Asian Studies (IIAS), especially Jeroen de Kloet and Heleen van der Minne, who are proof that you can still find Real People in the academic world. It took a while to find a suitable team, but eventually Ad de Bruijne, Leo Douw, and Michiel Baud formed a triad that could cover the different areas of Surinamese studies, modern Chinese migration, and transnationalism in the Caribbean Region, as well as successfully deal with the capriciousness of an older, foreign, and inexperienced PhD candidate. ![]() The idea for studying the Chinese of Suriname came from Ad de Bruijne, to whom I was introduced by Ivet Pieper during a presentation he gave on the Lebanese of Suriname at the Dutch embassy in Paramaribo. Paul Brendan Tjon Sie Fat geboren te Paramaribo, Surinameįaculteit der Maatschappij- en GedragswetenschappenĪCKNOWLEDGEMENTS I need to express my deepest appreciation to my promotor and copromotores, and WOTRO, the science division within the Netherlands Institute for Scientific Research (NWO) that provided the grant which made this project possible, and also AMIDSt for its help in the publication of this book. van den Boom ten overstaan van een door het college voor promoties ingestelde commissie, in het openbaar te verdedigen in de Agnietenkapel op donderdag 8 oktober 2009, te 12.00 uur Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this book may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise) without the written permission of both the copyright owner and the author of the book.ĬHINESE NEW MIGRANTS IN SURINAME THE INEVITABILITY OF ETHNIC PERFORMINGĪCADEMISCH PROEFSCHRIFT ter verkrijging van de graad van doctor aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam op gezag van de Rector Magnificus prof. Tjon Sie Fat / Vossiuspers UvA – Amsterdam University Press, 2009 All rights reserved. Tjon Sie Fat Cover design: René Staelenberg, Amsterdam Cover illustration: Ranu Abhelak He returned to the Netherlands to commence his PhD research at the University of Amsterdam in 2001, bringing to bear his background in Sinology, linguistics, identity issues and anti-discrimination NGOs on the problems of modern migration and citizenship in Suriname.Ĭhinese New Migrants in Suriname The Inevitability of Ethnic Performing Paul B. Paul Brendan Tjon Sie Fat (Paramaribo, 1966), studied Sinology at Leiden University. Local positioning strategies of Chinese had always depended on ethnic entrepreneurship and political participation, but were now complicated by anti-immigrant sentiments. ![]() 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. It is an ethnography of New Chinese Migrants in the context of SouthSouth migration, but also a first ethnography of Chinese in Suriname, as well as an analysis of Surinamese ethnic discourse and ethnopolitics. ![]() ![]() This book covers various aspects of New Chinese Migration in Suriname in the 1990s and early 2000s. Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences ![]()
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