Postcolonial Migrants and Identity Politics

Ulbe Bosma is Senior Researcher at the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam.

• List of Figures and TablesList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Postcolonial migrations and identity politics: Towards a comparative perspectiveUlbe Bosma, Jan Lucassen and Gert OostindieChapter 1. Postcolonial Immigrants in France and their Descendants: the Meanings of France’s "Postcolonial Moment"James CohenChapter 2. Postcolonial Migrants in Britain: From Unwelcome Guests to Partial and Segmented AssimilationShinder ThandiChapter 3. Postcolonial Migrants in the Netherlands: Identity Politics versus the Fragmentation of CommunityGert OostindieChapter 4. Postcolonial Portugal: between Scylla and CharybdisMargarida MarquesChapter 5. Return of the Natives?  Children of Empire in Postimperial JapanNicole Leah CohenChapter 6. Postcolonial Immigration and Identity Formation In Europe Since 1945: The Russian VariantAllison BlakelyChapter 7. The Puerto Rican Diaspora to the United States: A Postcolonial MigrationJorge DuanyBibliographyNotes on the ContributorsIndex

“Together, the contributions to this collection offer an insightful and helpful overview of postcolonial migration within different national frameworks…Too often, migrants have been deemed a problem…[This volume] in comparison complicates contemporary discussions around migration and integration and points to several potential avenues for further research and contribution. It is therefore a timely addition to the rich literature on what happens when the empire, so to speak, comes home.” • Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History“This is a stimulating book…The academic quality is very high, and the conceptual and methodological concerns are central to current debates concerning the second half of the twentieth century. The inclusion of a large geographic variety of cases is important and thought provoking.” • Nancy L. Green, L’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris