Chinese new migrants in Suriname : the inevitability of ethnic performing /
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| Author / Creator: | Tjon Sie Fat, Paul Brendan, 1966- |
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| Imprint: | Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, ©2009. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (iv, 467 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12481010 |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (iv, 467 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9789048511471 904851147X 1282453629 9781282453623 9789056295981 9056295985 |