Where is home? Changing conceptions of the homeland in the Surinamese-Javanese diaspora
In 1890 the first Javanese indentured labourers arrived in Suriname to work on the colony’s plantations. In total almost 30,000 indentured and free immigrants arrived in this small Caribbean colony. Fifty years later, at the end of the migration period, they formed more than one fifth of the populat...
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Language: | English |
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Universitas Indonesia, Faculty of Humanities
2022-10-01
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Series: | Wacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia |
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Online Access: | https://scholarhub.ui.ac.id/wacana/vol23/iss3/2/ |