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Surinamese Diaspora Foodways

Diaspora

⚠ A DIASPORA COMPARABLE IN SIZE TO THE HOME POPULATION, and almost all of it in ONE COUNTRY. Large-scale migration to the NETHERLANDS around independence in 1975 and the years either side means roughly as many people of Surinamese origin live in the Netherlands as in Suriname. The food went with them and became Dutch: the ROTI SHOP and the TOKO are ordinary features of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague and Almere; broodje pom, roti kip, bara, saoto and bami are sold as everyday Dutch takeaway; and Surinamese-Javanese food has become a recognised Dutch cuisine in its own right. ⚠ THAT IS A THIRD GENERATION OF DRIFT — Java to Suriname to the Netherlands — and it is recorded as its own thing, not as Indonesian food twice removed.

Atlas — where and when

Communities and languages

  • Surinamese in the Netherlands community documented

Languages: Dutch, Sranan Tongo, Javanese

What is recorded

  • Large-scale migration to the Netherlands around independence in 1975 means that roughly as many people of Surinamese origin live in the Netherlands as in Suriname. Roti shops and tokos are established features of Dutch cities and Surinamese-Javanese food is recorded as a distinct cuisine within the Netherlands — a third stage of divergence from Java, recorded as its own tradition. documented
  • Surinamese independence and the mass migration to the Netherlands around it, which left roughly as many people of Surinamese origin there as in Suriname. documented

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

  • migrated to Dutch Foodways documented

    ⚠ Roughly as many people of Surinamese origin live in the Netherlands as in Suriname. The roti shop and the toko are ordinary Dutch institutions.

  • related to Surinamese-Dutch Food Culture documented

    The existing Dutch-side row is the destination of this migration; they are linked rather than merged.

Recipes

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