Abstract
In 1949, the Dutch East Indies became independent Indonesia. In the aftermath of decolonization more than 300,000 people migrated from this former colony to the Netherlands. This article focuses on political and public debates in the Netherlands in which the boundaries between former colonizer and colonized were redrawn as a consequence of decolonization and migration. Migrants from former colonies claimed and were attributed a different position in the societies of their former colonizer than other migrants, based on their juridical citizenship, perceived shared history, Dutchness, loyalty and debt. Not all migrants for the former Dutch East Indies could be recipients of the same label. Dutchness could be stretched, but at one point the rhetoric changed from ‘family’ to ‘guests’.
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