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...Show moreThis 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.Show less
