Abstract
This article proposes an ethnographic investigation on subjects as “intimate” or familial implied in the immigration of Surinamese people to the Netherlands, intensified by the recent crisis in the Surinamese economy. Emphasizing familial misunderstandings caused by practices as “obsolete” by well-established immigrants - such as children’s games seen as “violent” - and the processes of “adaptation” of new immigrants to the “environment”, analyzed through notions such as Gregory Bateson’s deutero-learning. Images of “complexity”, “culture” and “authenticity” implied in the process of migration. Will also be analyzed, as well as the effects of the ethnographer’s presence on the descriptive choices and emphasis that make up the text.
Key words:
Caribbean; Learning; Migration; Kinship