Refugees from Suriname
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.25071/1920-7336.41310Keywords:
Suriname Refugees, Dutch Refugee Policies, Involuntary MigrationAbstract
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.
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Copyright (c) 1984 Betty Sedoc-Dahlberg
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