Buitenkampers: the outlawed Eurasians? The position of binnen-and buitenkampers compared from 1942 to 1949

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Asian Studies (60 EC) (MA)

Vuure, Suzanne van (2015)

Buitenkampers: the outlawed Eurasians? The position of binnen-and buitenkampers compared from 1942 to 1949

Master thesis | Asian Studies (60 EC) (MA)

This thesis tests a hypothesis of Joost Cote. Joost Cote wrote about Indisch Dutch that moved to Australia. Among these migrants were binnen- and buitenkampers. Cote argues that the incarceration experience consolidated the sense of ‘European-ness’ amongst the Dutch and the Eurasian internees. According to Cote, this difference in war experience shows a fracture within the Indisch community: the Indisch Dutch versus ‘the Hollanders’. This thesis investigates to what extend this fracture was actually present and to what extent this fracture originated in the wartime experience.