Abstract
This research project focuses on the interplay of identity politics among postcolonial migrants in the Netherlands, the growing receptivity of the host society to such strategic appeals, and the changing objectives to which these are being used. The theoretical aim of the project is to utilise concepts developed in the study of identity politics and transnationalism in a thorough historical analysis of the postcolonial migration experience as it took shape over the past six decades in the Netherlands, and compare these to postcolonial experiences elsewhere in Western Europe and the United States.