22 minutes that'll wreck your whole week about who really pays for 'integration.'
In Surinamers in Nederland: De terugkeer van het zwarte goud, we see Surinamese people arriving in the Netherlands, unsure of what to expect, and being packed into overcrowded boarding houses. The government's idea is that they should then be integrated into society as quickly as possible. This was to be done by the Centraal Bureau Uitvoering Vestigingsbesluit Rijksgenoten, set up in 1974.
Direction
ASJ Collectief's radical access to spaces power wanted hidden.
Editing
Juxtaposition of bureaucratic optimism vs. crushing lived reality.
Director
ASJ Collectief
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
1975 Surinamese independence triggered mass 'repatriation' to the Netherlands — a migration the Dutch state actively discouraged yet legally enabled, creating this specific bureaucratic hellscape.
ASJ Collectief was part of a wave of Dutch activist filmmakers using 16mm to document state racism — their work was rarely broadcast, making this preservation vital.
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