The new issue of the Dutch Journal of Social and Economic History (TSEG, no 1, 2013) opens with a research article by Barbara Henkes on Dutch emigration and South African nation building: Een warm welkom voor blanke nieuwkomers? Nederlandse emigratie en Zuid-Afrikaanse natievorming (1902-1961).
The article investigates changing ideas and regulations that promoted or impeded transnational mobility of certain national and ethnic categories of 'white' migrants from Europe to South Africa, and it shows how Dutch emigration fitted into this pattern. A pattern that was determined by a controversy between advocates of an inclusive policy that aimed at opening up the country to white immigrants from all over Europe, and those who were in favour of an exclusive policy that was primarily concerned with strengthening their 'own' Protestant, Afrikaans political culture (protecting it from British, Jewish, and catholic influences). When the Dutch government found it necessary to stimulate Dutch emigration, it called on the alleged 'kinship' (stamverwantschap) between Dutch and Afrikaner part of the South African population to overcome the obstacles. Dutch newcomers soon were welcomed again to strengthen Afrikaner nationalism and thus support the Apartheid regime.
See: http://www.tseg.nl/
In the new issue of the International Review of Social History IRSH (vol 58 nr 1, 2013) Jürgen Kocka remembers Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012). Research articles in this issue:
Servile Sentinels of the City: Private Security Guards, Organized Informality, and Labour in Interactive Services in Globalized India by Nandini Gooptu
Constructing Labour Regionalism in Europe and the Americas, 1920s–1970s by Magaly Rodríguez García
“Little Soldiers” for Socialism: Childhood and Socialist Politics in the British Socialist Sunday School Movement by Jessica Gerrard
See: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?jid=ISH&tab=currentissue