Chinese New Migrants in Suriname

The Inevitability of Ethnic Performing

Paul Tjon Sie Fat

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2025
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040783924
• Subtopic: Sociology
• Index: Politics & International Relations

This book covers various aspects of New Chinese Migration in Suriname in the 1990s and early 2000s. It is an ethnography of New Chinese Migrants in the context of South- South migration, but also a first ethnography of Chinese in Suriname, as well as an analysis of Surinamese ethnic discourse and ethnopolitics. Starting in the 1990s, renewed immigration from China changed the dynamics of the Surinamese Chinese community, which developed from a Hakka enclave to a culturally and linguistically diverse, modern Chinese migrant group. Local positioning strategies of Chinese had always depended on ethnic entrepreneurship and political participation, but were now complicated by anti-immigrant sentiments. This book covers various aspects of New Chinese Migration in Suriname in the 1990s and early 2000s.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Acknowledgements
• Table of Contents
• Illustrations
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Chinese Ethnic Identity in Suriname
• 3 Fuidung’On Hakkas – The ‘Old Chinese’
• 4 The New Chinese
• 5 The PRC Presence In Suriname
• 6 Migration and Changing Public Perceptions
• 7 The ‘Old Chinese’ Route to Participation: Politics of Chineseness
• 8 The New Chinese Route to Participation: Chinatown Politics
• 9 The 2005 Legislative Elections
• 10 Conclusions
• Epilogue
• Appendix 1: The Frame of Chinese Stereotypes
• Appendix 2: Tong’ap Lives Through Chinese Texts
• Appendix 3: Chinese Ethnic Identification In Suriname
• Appendix 4: Glossary of Chinese Terms
• List of Abbreviations
• Maps
• References
• English Summary
• Nederlandse Samenvatting