Biology, Culture, “Postcolonial Citizenship” and the Dutch Nation, 1945–2007

Jones, Guno

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“…I have argued elsewhere that the dynamics of citizenship under colonialism and in the 'postcolonial present' are inconsistent with universalist-inclusive and progressive conceptions of citizenship (Jones 2007(Jones , 2014c. The development of 'modern citizenship' in the motherland via expansion of civil and political rights in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was paralleled by its negation in the overseas colonies, as evidenced by the enduring institution of slavery in the 'West Indies' and 'the Dutch East Indies' and the introduction of first and second class citizenship in colonial nationality law in the 'the Dutch East Indies'.…”

Section: Situating Citizenship: Lessons From Colonial and Postcoloniamentioning

confidence: 99%

What Is New about Dutch Populism? Dutch Colonialism, Hierarchical Citizenship and Contemporary Populist Debates and Policies in the Netherlands

Jones

2016

Journal of Intercultural Studies

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This article discusses how Dutch politics of citizenship in the (colonial) past and the present create distinctions, distribute status, rights, opportunities, securities and wealth and how they evoke agency. This process is analysed first by exploring the politics of citizenship in colonial times; second, the implications of political decolonisation for citizenship are discussed; third, present day dynamics around Dutch populism and how they connect to autochthony and Islamophobia are discussed; fourth, a present-day example of the phenomenon termed 'citizenship alienism' will be analysed. These historical and contemporary discourses demonstrate how through the years, Dutch majoritarian politicians have constructed a distinction between 'conditional' versus 'unconditional' citizens through references to a mythical core Dutch nation. The politics of inequality under populism are in that sense not new, but, rather, present-day expressions of a much older Dutch political phenomenon.

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Section: Situating Citizenship: Lessons From Colonial and Postcoloniamentioning

confidence: 99%

What Is New about Dutch Populism? Dutch Colonialism, Hierarchical Citizenship and Contemporary Populist Debates and Policies in the Netherlands

Jones

2016

Journal of Intercultural Studies

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“…In line with the CR argument of the structural embeddedness of exclusion and oppression, CR texts on the Netherlands discuss migrants' everyday experiences related to political, media and institutional factors. Jones (2014), van Dijk (1993b, 2002, Vasta (2007) and Yanow and van der Haar (2013) discuss political discourses and others focus on institutions: Essed (2002), van den Broek (2014) and Vasta (2007) on the labour market, Wekker (2014) on the police and media, Trienekens and Bos (2014) on the arts and culture sector and Weiner (2015) on education.…”

Section: Cr Approaches and Migrants' Exclusion And Oppression In The mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For example, the concept of cultural racism acknowledges the fact that currently, at least in Europe, such processes are primarily justified in a language of culture and ethnicity rather than based on assumed biological inferiority (e.g. Essed and Trienekens 2008;Jones 2014; de Leeuw and van Wichelen 2014; see Balibar and Wallerstein 1991). Whether cultural or biological, however, it still remains racism in CR views.…”

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“Race” versus “ethnicity”? Critical race essentialism and the exclusion and oppression of migrants in the Netherlands

Siebers

2016

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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Howard Winant subordinates "ethnicity" to "race" as the central structuring principle in society. By contrast, Andreas Wimmer takes racism as a particular form of ethnic boundary making. Their debate in this journal (vol. 38, no. 13, 2015) mainly concentrates on the US. This article brings the critical race (CR) literature on migrants' exclusion and oppression in the Netherlands to this debate. It discusses several essentialist shortcomings of this literature. First, CR authors do not contextualize "race" and racism, which repeatedly results in misreadings of the Dutch context. Second, their imposed totalizing notions of racism undermine the explanatory value of the concept. Third, the evidence for their claims remains inconclusive. Fourth, their contributions to the struggle against migrants' exclusion and oppression are limited. To avoid these shortcomings, I argue for a differentiation between "race"/racism and "ethnicity"/ethnicism as two separate concepts that need to be applied and understood in a non-essentialist way.

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“…Crimmigration is considered to be the result of globalisation and presents migration as a security threat which increasingly developed in the 1990s (García Hernández, 2014;Guia et al, 2013;Stumpf, 2006). If deportation is studied historically and seen as a specific instrument of citizenship, which includes the illegalisation and the deportability of former colonial subjects, the conflation of criminality with immigration status is exposed as an old phenomenon (De Genova, 2002;Jones, 2014;Walters, 2002). Jones notes that the debates on citizenship tend to lack critical reflection on the development of the citizenship status of the colonial subject in the postcolonial period (Jones, 2014).…”

Section: Criminalisation Of 'Failed' Citizensmentioning

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“…If deportation is studied historically and seen as a specific instrument of citizenship, which includes the illegalisation and the deportability of former colonial subjects, the conflation of criminality with immigration status is exposed as an old phenomenon (De Genova, 2002;Jones, 2014;Walters, 2002). Jones notes that the debates on citizenship tend to lack critical reflection on the development of the citizenship status of the colonial subject in the postcolonial period (Jones, 2014). The gap between the two policy areas is where the citizenship status of postcolonial immigrants fits and where we can understand how deportation developed in Britain historically.…”

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A Certain Class of Undesirables

Mustafa

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This dissertation focuses on the period between 1948 and 1968 in the British metropole and examines the regulation of interracialised relationships during this time. The large-scale immigration from Britain's former colonies to the metropole began after 1948, coinciding with the development of the British welfare state and job opportunities. The dissertation highlights the political and public discourse surrounding the settlement of colonial citizens, with employment, housing, and 'miscegenation' being recurring themes in political debates and media coverage. The author specifically explores the national discourse on interracialised relationships, particularly between White women and Black men, which attracted political and media attention. The author argues that such relationships posed a threat to the racial order and the construction of a white British nation because they were seen as crossed racialised, gendered and class boundaries thereby challenging societal norms within Britain. This research expands on legal scholarship by exploring the ways control and regulation occurred across diverse social authorities, including non-governmental institutions. It demonstrates that regulation of interracialized relationships went beyond strict legal codes or the state itself. This dissertation presents a comprehensive analysis of the locations where moral regulation occurred by examining the interconnectedness of various governmental and non-governmental departments and institutions. It highlights how institutions such as the police, the church, and immigration agencies played a role in regulating interracial relationships. By situating the analysis of UK policy and governance within the broader historical context of the British empire, the dissertation aligns with postcolonial and decolonial scholarship. It emphasizes the interconnectedness of colonial and metropolitan spaces and contributes to understanding how interracial relationships were racialized within the empire. Overall, the dissertation contributes to the field of 'mixed race' studies by providing a comprehensive analysis of the regulation of interracialized relationships, situating them within historical, social, and cultural processes, and exploring the nuanced ways in which they were governed.

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Biology, Culture, “Postcolonial Citizenship” and the Dutch Nation, 1945–2007

Cited by 25 publications

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What Is New about Dutch Populism? Dutch Colonialism, Hierarchical Citizenship and Contemporary Populist Debates and Policies in the Netherlands

What Is New about Dutch Populism? Dutch Colonialism, Hierarchical Citizenship and Contemporary Populist Debates and Policies in the Netherlands

“Race” versus “ethnicity”? Critical race essentialism and the exclusion and oppression of migrants in the Netherlands

A Certain Class of Undesirables

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