{"id":47711,"date":"2017-03-21T01:35:03","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T01:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=47711"},"modified":"2018-04-01T01:40:35","modified_gmt":"2018-04-01T01:40:35","slug":"the-eurasian-question-the-postcolonial-dilemmas-of-three-colonial-mixed-ancestry-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=47711","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Eurasian Question\u2019: The postcolonial dilemmas of three colonial mixed-ancestry groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.universiteitleiden.nl\/en\/research\/research-projects\/humanities\/%E2%80%98the-eurasian-question%E2%80%99-the-postcolonial-dilemmas-of-three-colonial-mixed-ancestry-groups-compared\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>\u2018The Eurasian Question\u2019: The postcolonial dilemmas of three colonial mixed-ancestry groups compared<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.universiteitleiden.nl\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leiden University<\/a><br \/>\nLeiden, Netherlands<br \/>\nDuration 2013-2017<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.universiteitleiden.nl\/en\/staffmembers\/liesbeth-rosen-jacobson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Liesbeth Rosen Jacobson<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Eurasians were privileged groups of mixed ancestry in Asian colonial societies. They were the result of unions between European males and indigenous women. They neither belonged to the colonizers, nor to the colonized. When colonization came to an end, the Eurasians found themselves in a difficult position. The European rulers, on which their status was based, were gone. The new indigenous rulers usually perceived them suspiciously as colonial remnants and sometimes even as traitors. In this chaotic, sometimes violent situation, they were forced to make a choice, albeit a preliminary one, between staying in the former colony or leaving, usually for the European metropolis. This was a serious dilemma since they only knew the metropolis from stories and lessons at school. The point of departure of this research is formed by the Eurasian group of the former <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dutch_East_Indies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dutch Indies<\/a>: the Indo-Europeans. However, I compare the decision making process of this group with those of similar groups from two other Asian colonies, the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anglo-Indian\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anglo-Indians<\/a> from the British Indies and the <em>M\u00e9tis<\/em> people from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/French_Indochina\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">French Indochina<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article about the project <a href=\"http:\/\/www.universiteitleiden.nl\/en\/research\/research-projects\/humanities\/%E2%80%98the-eurasian-question%E2%80%99-the-postcolonial-dilemmas-of-three-colonial-mixed-ancestry-groups-compared\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eurasians were privileged groups of mixed ancestry in Asian colonial societies. They were the result of unions between European males and indigenous women. They neither belonged to the colonizers, nor to the colonized. When colonization came to an end, the Eurasians found themselves in a difficult position. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,8],"tags":[8567,24161,24159,24160,24162],"class_list":["post-47711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-media-archive","tag-anglo-indians","tag-indo-europeans","tag-leiden-university","tag-liesbeth-rosen-jacobson","tag-universiteit-leiden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47711"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56097,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47711\/revisions\/56097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}