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creators_name: Rots, Jinko A.
title: Cultural Identity and Everyday Life among Elderly Dutch New Zealanders
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full_text_status: public
abstract: This thesis discusses how the everyday life of elderly Dutch immigrants in New Zealand is influenced by their Dutch background. Drawing on qualitative research (in-depth interviews, participant observation and photography), it appeared that the respondents in this study culturally identify in a hybrid way. Identifying themselves differently from both Dutch in the Netherlands and New Zealanders, they can be regarded as being ‘in-between’ cultures.
Moreover, I argued that cultural identities are produced through everyday practices, which are important signifiers of expressing hybrid cultural identities. Such practices include social relations, social activities, language use, home decoration, individual recreational activities, food consumption and the celebration of national holidays and flag waving. Memories of the past were of particular importance in such practices. Drawing on Hall (1995), I concluded that the respondents are simultaneously the same as and different from both Dutch and New Zealanders. They are Dutch New Zealanders.
date: 2012
date_type: published
thesis_type: master
degree_programme: RS
tutors_name: van Hoven, B.
keywords_local: Ageing
keywords_local: In-betweenness
keywords_local: Practices
keywords_local: Everyday Life
keywords_local: Cultural Identity
keywords_local: New Zealand
keywords_local: Dutch migrants
language_iso: en
titleorder: Cultural Identity and Everyday Life among Elderly Dutch New Zealanders
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date_issued: 2012-01-01
citation:   Rots, Jinko A.  (2012) Cultural Identity and Everyday Life among Elderly Dutch New Zealanders.  Master thesis.   
document_url: https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/2512/1/Thesis_Jinko_Rots.pdf