Transformation of Immigrant Integration: Civic Integration and Antidiscrimination in the Netherlands, France, and Germany

2007 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
pp. 243-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Joppke
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Equal Opportunity ◽  
Immigrant Integration ◽  
The Past ◽  
Civic Integration ◽  
Integration Policies ◽  
Case Comparison ◽  
National Models

This article argues that, beginning in the mid-1990s, there has been a transformation of immigrant integration policies in Western Europe, away from distinct “national models” and toward convergent policies of “civic integration” for newcomers and “antidiscrimination” for settled immigrants and their descendants. This convergence is demonstrated by a least-likely case comparison of the Netherlands, France, and Germany—states that had pursued sharply different lines in the past. The author fleshes out the conflicting, even contradictory logics of antidiscrimination and civic integration and grounds them in opposite variants of liberalism, an “old” liberalism of nondiscrimination and equal opportunity and a “new” liberalism of power and disciplining, respectively.

The Dynamics of Voters’ Left/Right Identification: The Role of Economic and Cultural Attitudes

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine E. de Vries ◽  
Armen Hakhverdian ◽  
Bram Lancee
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Longitudinal Data ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Political Competition ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Environment ◽  
Cultural Attitudes ◽  
The Past ◽  
Economic Attitudes

The mobilization of culturally rooted issues has altered political competition throughout Western Europe. This article analyzes to what extent the mobilization of immigration issues has affected how people identify with politics. Specifically, it analyzes whether voters’ left/right self-identifications over the past 30 years increasingly correspond to cultural rather than economic attitudes. This study uses longitudinal data from the Netherlands between 1980 and 2006 to demonstrate that as time progresses, voters’ left/right self-placements are indeed more strongly determined by anti-immigrant attitudes than by attitudes towards redistribution.These findings show that the issue basis of left/right identification is dynamic in nature and responsive to changes in the political environment.

Dutch ‘Multiculturalism’ Beyond the Pillarisation Myth

2007 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 337-350 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maarten P. Vink
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
The State ◽  
Integration Policy ◽  
Van Gogh ◽  
The Past ◽  
Integration Policies ◽  
Historical Tradition ◽  
Paradigmatic Change

This article is about the state of multiculturalist politics in the Netherlands. It assesses the popular claim that a paradigmatic change has occurred in the Netherlands due to events such as 9/11 and the murders of Pim Fortuyn and Theo van Gogh. The article argues that although changes are significant, both in discourse and in practice, they must be viewed as part of a process of rethinking the relation between newcomers and the state that goes back as far as the end of the 1980s. Long-standing claims about the exemplary form of multiculturalism in the Netherlands were always ambiguous at least, or even hard to sustain. The article criticises the persistent idea that Dutch accommodating integration policies since the end of the 1970s are an extension of the historical tradition of ‘pillarisation’. Only by going beyond this myth can we understand why recent changes are much less of a break with the past, and why multiculturalism was never accepted or practised as fully as has often been suggested in more stereotypical depictions of Dutch integration policy.

Case series: periocular habronemiasis in five horses in the Netherlands

2018 ◽  
Vol 182 (26) ◽  
pp. 746-746 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Verhaar ◽  
Hanneke Hermans ◽  
Eugene van Rooij ◽  
Marianne Sloet van Oldruitenborgh-Oosterbaan ◽  
Jos Ensink
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Clinical Signs ◽  
Case Series ◽  
Granulomatous Inflammation ◽  
Surgical Excision ◽  
Histopathologic Examination ◽  
The Past ◽  
Biopsy Specimens ◽  
Anthelmintic Drugs

In tropical and subtropical climates, infection of periocular tissue by Habronema larvae is a recognised cause of conjunctivitis or blepharitis. To the authors’ knowledge, only a few cases of habronemiasis have been described in Western Europe, and it has not been documented previously in the Netherlands. The objective of this report is to describe the occurrence of five cases of (peri)ocular habronemiasis in the Netherlands, of which four date from the past few years. The diagnosis was based on the history, clinical signs and histopathologic examination of biopsy specimens. A granulomatous conjunctivitis/dermatitis and sulphur-like granules were present in all cases. Histopathology showed an eosinophilic granulomatous inflammation, and three out of five (60 per cent) samples revealed one or more nematodes on section. Treatment combinations with surgical excision, local corticosteroid and/or anthelmintic drugs were used. Furthermore, all horses received ivermectin or moxidectin. Treatment resulted in healing of the lesions in four horses. One case, which was refractory to treatment, resolved spontaneously after the onset of colder weather. This case series suggests an increased prevalence of (peri)ocular habronemiasis in the Netherlands. This diagnosis should therefore be considered when being presented with a horse with granulomatous conjunctivitis/dermatitis in Western Europe, especially during the summer months.

scholarly journals Minority Rights for Immigrants: From Multiculturalism to Civic Participation

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (19) ◽  
pp. 103
Author(s):  
Elisa Ortega Velázquez
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
International Law ◽  
Minority Rights ◽  
The United States ◽  
Immigrant Integration ◽  
Host Society ◽  
Integration Policies ◽  
Integration Of Immigrants ◽  
International Obligations

This article asserts that according to international law, immigrants do have rights as a minority, and in abiding by their international obligations, States are obligated to implement policies that safeguard these rights and, in this way, facilitate the integration of immigrants into the host society. However, there are a number of elements that make the practical enforcement of these rights and the implementation of such policies rather complex. Thus, a series of international law provisions are first reviewed so as to be able to establish the foundations of our views. Secondly, we summarize and analyze the main trends of integration policies in three of the main Western immigration countries: Canada, the United States and the Netherlands, in order to broadly present the actions and results. Lastly, we conclude that immigrant integration projects fail to respect immigrants’ rights as a minority and that more effort should be made to comply with the international obligations States have assumed.

Immigration and Immigrant Integration Policy

2020 ◽  
pp. 608-626
Author(s):  
Kristina Bakkær Simonsen
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
Immigrant Integration ◽  
Sufficient Condition ◽  
Integration Policy ◽  
Policy Changes ◽  
Political Dynamics ◽  
The Past ◽  
International Attention ◽  
Policy Shift ◽  
Immigrant Integration Policy

Danish immigration and immigrant integration policy has changed dramatically over the past forty to 50 years, from occupying one of the most liberal positions in Western Europe in the 1980s to becoming one of the most restrictive in 2019. This policy shift has not least attracted international attention and led commentators to suggest that the Danes must be exceptionally anti-immigrant. This chapter investigates the drivers of policy change. It demonstrates that Danish public opinion may have been a necessary but not a sufficient condition for pushing immigration and immigrant integration policy in a more restrictive direction. Instead, party political dynamics and associated politicization pressures were decisive factors in the development of the policy field. In closing, the chapter considers the potential effects of these policy changes on both majority-minority relations and immigrant integration outcomes in Denmark.

From Black Death to Black Hole

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcin Piatkowski
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Black Death ◽  
European Continent ◽  
The Past

In this chapter I explain why Poland and most countries in Eastern Europe have always lagged behind Western Europe in economic development. I discuss why in the past the European continent split into two parts and how Western and Eastern Europe followed starkly different developmental paths. I then demonstrate how Polish oligarchic elites built extractive institutions and how they adopted ideologies, cultures, and values, which undermined development from the late sixteenth century to 1939. I also describe how the elites created a libertarian country without taxes, state capacity, and rule of law, and how this ‘golden freedom’ led to Poland’s collapse and disappearance from the map of Europe in 1795. I argue that Polish extractive society was so well established that it could not reform itself from the inside. It was like a black hole, where the force of gravity is so strong that the light could not come out.

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