Invisisbility and selectivity. Introduction to the special issue on Dutch overseas migration in the nineteenth and twentieth century

Schrover, Marlou; Faassen, Marijke van

doi:10.18352/tseg.374

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“…At the end of the nineteenth century, national (frequently church-based) NGOs actively encouraged emigration from Europe. 45 In 1906, the International Congress on Unemployment was held. Labour bureaus, international trade unions and NGOs drafted a proposal for international labour exchanges, in the hope of increasing labour emigration, but no country signed it.…”

Section: The First Rights Revolution:1860s-mid 1920smentioning

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NGOs and West European Migration Governance (1860s until Present): Introduction to a Special Issue

2019

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Social and political scientists are involved in an extensive but inconclusive debate about the role of international nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) in European migration governance. The European Union (EU) and NGOs work under the assumption that NGOs are crucial to migration governance and yet the role of NGOs is not clear. The EU has invested time and money in its attempts to involve NGOs more actively in migration governance, but it does so without much knowledge of how ngos in the past have influenced migration governance, and thus with no idea if the current investments are worthwhile. In this article, which is the introduction to the special issue on this subject, we take a closer look at the NGOs involved in West European migration in the period from the 1860s until the present day in order to understand the changing role of NGOs in migration governance in Europe. Providing moral, logistical and expert authority in a purportedly impartial way, NGOs have added a dimension to migration governance that states cannot replicate. As a result, the number of NGOs has gradually increased and at times their influence has become significant. However, in providing a chronology of the involvement of NGOs in migration governance, we show that their influence on migration governance policies and practices has not been linear. During some windows of opportunity (e.g. in the immediate years following the First and Second World Wars and the Cold War), NGOs became more prominent and effective, while at other times (e.g. the 1930s), their importance waned. The presence and capacity of NGOs to contribute to migration governance depended on whether states, and increasingly after 1945, intergovernmental organisations such as the UN, needed them to further their own interests or to fulfil a role that they could not play.

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Section: The First Rights Revolution:1860s-mid 1920smentioning

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NGOs and West European Migration Governance (1860s until Present): Introduction to a Special Issue

2019

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“…In the NAMA case, Australian co-subsidizing of the passage required migrants to work in Australian government service for 2 years. The schema also included migrant selection with both Australian and Dutch involvement (Schrover and van Faassen, 2010). On the other side, it also implied that the Dutch authorities wanted to make migration a success.…”

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Migrant visibility: Digitization and heritage policies

Faassen¹,

Hoekstra²

2022

Front. Hum. Dyn.

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Digitization and digital methods have had a big impact on migration history and history in general. The dispersed and fragmented nature of migration heritage that involves at least two countries and many cultural heritage institutions make it clear that migration history can be much improved by using digital means to connect collections. This makes it possible to overcome the biases that policy have introduced in private and public collections alike by selection and perspective. Digital methods are not immune to these biases and may even introduce new distortions because they often change heritage contextualizations. In this article, Van Faassen and Hoekstra argue that therefore they should be embedded in source criticism methodology. They use the example of post-world War II Dutch-Australian emigration to show how a migrant registration system can be used as a structural device to connect migrant heritage. They use methods from computer vision to assess the information distribution of the registration system. Together, connecting collections and information assessments give an encompassing view of the migrant visibility and invisibility in the heritage collections and perspectives for scholars to become aware of heritage biases.

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“…76 In the post-war years, 115,000 people were repatriated to the Netherlands from the Dutch East Indies or Indonesia. 77 Dutch authorities feared hundreds of thousands more would come. They hoped that some of the repatriates would be able to go to the US as refugees.…”

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Displaced persons, returnees and ‘unsuitables’: the Dutch selection of DPs (1945–1951)

Schrover

Walaardt²

2018

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After the Second World War, Dutch authorities allowed 8,000 displaced persons (DPs) to come to the Netherlands, but only 3,904 came, and 25 per cent of them returned to camp life in Germany. This article seeks to explain why debates on the DP issue changed so rapidly within a short period of time. In earlier publications, it has been claimed that ‘selling’ DPs as workers helped to solve the DP issue. This strategy did not work for the Netherlands. This article analyses how the DP issue was framed by organisations, the Dutch government, civil servants, the Dutch Homeland Security Department, newspapers and employers.

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Invisisbility and selectivity. Introduction to the special issue on Dutch overseas migration in the nineteenth and twentieth century

Cited by 11 publications

References 4 publications

NGOs and West European Migration Governance (1860s until Present): Introduction to a Special Issue

NGOs and West European Migration Governance (1860s until Present): Introduction to a Special Issue

Migrant visibility: Digitization and heritage policies

Displaced persons, returnees and ‘unsuitables’: the Dutch selection of DPs (1945–1951)

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