Refugees from Suriname
The lack of political responsibility by the weak Surinamese governments is demonstrated through the absence of in- terest in the migration of 25% of the population to the Netherlands. Increas- ing social unrest gave rise to an uninter- ested and uncaring attitude towards the migration of professionals, technicians, and skilled workers since the fifties: in the sixties and seventies, the so-called crisis strata and socially explosive elements of the society followed. More- over, after the 1980 military take-over by non-commissioned officers, the power elites developed strategies to en- courage... Mehr ...
Verfasser: | |
---|---|
Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 1984 |
Verlag/Hrsg.: |
York University Libraries
|
Schlagwörter: | Suriname Refugees / Dutch Refugee Policies / Involuntary Migration |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27413968 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
Powered By: | BASE |
Link(s) : | https://refuge.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/refuge/article/view/41310 |
The lack of political responsibility by the weak Surinamese governments is demonstrated through the absence of in- terest in the migration of 25% of the population to the Netherlands. Increas- ing social unrest gave rise to an uninter- ested and uncaring attitude towards the migration of professionals, technicians, and skilled workers since the fifties: in the sixties and seventies, the so-called crisis strata and socially explosive elements of the society followed. More- over, after the 1980 military take-over by non-commissioned officers, the power elites developed strategies to en- courage migration of so-called "destab- ilizing" countrymen. A massacre in December 1982 by the nearly three-year old leftist junta led to the involuntary migration to the Netherlands of more than one thousand persons of several ethnic groups.