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Saturday 15 April 2023 08.30 - 10.30
L-13 ETH21 In and Out of India
C24
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Irial Glynn
Organizers: - Discussant: Irial Glynn
Matthijs Kraijo : Destined to leave Hindostan? Explaining the Motivation behind Repatriation and Settlement of Hindustani Labour Migrants in Suriname, 1873-1940
This article investigates the post-indenture choice of Hindustani indentured labour migrants in Suriname of either settling in Suriname or repatriating to India between 1873 and 1940. By basing on an extensive demographic statistical analysis and the autobiography of Rahman Mohammed Khan, this research concludes that familial relations, especially constructed in ... (Show more)
This article investigates the post-indenture choice of Hindustani indentured labour migrants in Suriname of either settling in Suriname or repatriating to India between 1873 and 1940. By basing on an extensive demographic statistical analysis and the autobiography of Rahman Mohammed Khan, this research concludes that familial relations, especially constructed in Suriname, has a strong effect on the relative share of Hindustanis settling themselves in Suriname after their contract period. Additionally, it is proved that the Surinamese context has had an important effect to the development of the individual life courses of Hindustanis. (Show less)

Liesbeth Rosen Jacobson, Maaike Derksen : A Blueprint for Dutch Diversity Policy?
IIn 1952 a new Dutch ministry was founded: the ministry of social work. A similar development was discernible in the former colony of Indonesia with the installation of a Central council of social matters in Jakarta after the formal decolonization in December 1949. This council hired professional social workers to ... (Show more)
IIn 1952 a new Dutch ministry was founded: the ministry of social work. A similar development was discernible in the former colony of Indonesia with the installation of a Central council of social matters in Jakarta after the formal decolonization in December 1949. This council hired professional social workers to help Dutch and Indo-European people with limited means and to manage requests for repatriation to the Netherlands. This paper aims to combine these two largely separate historiographies, the history of social work in the Netherlands (including the involvement of socially and politically active women) and the history of the repatriation of (Indisch) Dutch and Indo-European people to the Netherlands. For that purpose, I look at how the (partly) self-interest organisation Centraal Comité van Kerkelijk en Particulier initiatief voor sociale zorg ten behoeve van gerepatrieerden (CCKP, Central Committee of clerical and particular initiative for social care for the benefit of repatriates’) functioned and cooperated with the ministry. By means of archival material of both the ministry, the CCKP and secondary literature on the rise of social work as a profession, I argue that the form repatriates’ care took represented a light form of combat of asociality (‘onmaatschappelijkheidsbestrijding’) and acted as a try-out or blueprint for later Dutch diversity policies. (Show less)

Shyamal Chandra Sarkar : International Boundary Problems between Berubari and Bangladesh (1947-1974)
South Berubari was a small town. It was located near Indo-Bangladesh border, in Jalpaiguri District of West Bengal. It was around 13 km south of Jalpaiguri, the district headquarters. Berubari Union No. 12, the focus of this study, had an area of 8.75 sq. miles and a population of ... (Show more)
South Berubari was a small town. It was located near Indo-Bangladesh border, in Jalpaiguri District of West Bengal. It was around 13 km south of Jalpaiguri, the district headquarters. Berubari Union No. 12, the focus of this study, had an area of 8.75 sq. miles and a population of ten to twelve thousand residents. After the division of India and Pakistan (1947), the people of South Berubari became involved in a prolonged agitation. The aims of this work to highlight how the problems between Berubari and Bangladesh raised and developed, what steps have been taken by both the countries for solved the problems and whether it success or not.
Key words: Berubari, Radcliffe award, Chhitmahal, Boundary, Agitations (Show less)



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