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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Main Authors: Rosemarijn Hoefte, Hariëtte Mingoen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universitas Indonesia, Faculty of Humanities 2022-10-01
Series:Wacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia
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Online Access:https://scholarhub.ui.ac.id/wacana/vol23/iss3/2/