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Mens & Maatschappij - Volume 84, Issue 4, 2009
Volume 84, Issue 4, 2009
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Polarisatie in de Nederlandse samenleving en politiek: het integratiebeleid
More LessPolarization in Dutch society and politics: the ethnic integration policy .
A growing polarization features current debates in the Netherlands. However, a systematic measurement of polarization is missing thus far. The present paper aims to describe and compare trends in societal and political polarization on Dutch ethnic integration policy using a refined polarization measure. Based on political competition models and agenda theory, it is predicted that the electoral salience of an issue positively affects political polarization, but negatively affects societal polarization. Analyses of data from Dutch political election studies and party manifestos show that polarization trends on ethnic integration policy in Dutch politics are markedly dissimilar from polarization trends in society. Moreover, trends in electoral salience of ethnic integration policy are comparable to political polarization trends, but seem opposed to societal polarization trends.
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Tussen Nederland en Marokko - Waar voelen Marokkaans-Nederlandse remigranten- en achtergelaten kinderen in Marokko zich thuis?
Authors: June de Bree, Oka Storms & Edien BartelsIn between the Netherlands and Morocco.
Where do Dutch Moroccan return migrants and abandoned children in Morocco feel at home? .
Return migrant and abandoned children form a largely neglected research field. For years Dutch policy makers have been asked to pay attention to Dutch Moroccan children in Morocco, but without much result. These children often grew up in the Netherlands and the question arises whether they are able to feel at home in Morocco. A main explanatory factor is age: return migrant children tend to be older at the point of return and strongly wish to return to the Netherlands, while younger abandoned children tend to identify with both countries. However, they also wish to go to the Netherlands one day, which seems to result from the process of intergenerational transmission.
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De ervaren relatiekwaliteit van familierelaties - Het belang van waardenconsensus bekeken vanuit een multi-actor benadering
Authors: Suzanne Noordhuizen & Matthijs KalmijnAssessing perceived relationship quality of family relations.
The role of value similarity examined from a multi-actor perspective.
It has often been claimed a positive relationship exists between value similarity and relationship quality. To assess the validity of this claim Heckman regression models were conducted using data from the Netherlands Kinship Panel Study (NKPS) survey. In addition, given the nature of the sibling relation, we assume value similarity to be more important for the sibling relationship compared to the parent- child relation. Therefore, we compared the importance of value similarity for siblings (N = 2853) with the impact of consensus between parents and children (N = 2202). Our analyses yield interesting results. First, in both the sibling relation and the parent-child relation evidence for the relationship between consensus and relationship quality is limited. Second, for parents and children value similarity is more strongly connected with relationship quality than for siblings. In sum, these results question the common assumption that relationship quality suffers from a lack of consensus.
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Verschillen in groepsdiscriminatie, zoals waargenomen door immigranten uit verschillende herkomstlanden in veertien lidstaten van de Europese Unie
Authors: Stéfanie André, Jaap Dronkers & Fenella FleischmannPerception of in-group discrimination among immigrants in 14 member states of the European Union .
Drawing on the second and third wave of the European Social Survey, we analyse the perception of in-group discrimination of 7034 immigrants from 177 different countries of origin in 14 European Union countries. In addition to testing the effects of individual factors, such as education, religion, and migration history, we estimate the effects of macro-characteristics of both origin and destination countries. We distinguish four dimensions of explanations: immigration, religion, economic circumstances and immigration policies. The influence of adherence to Eastern Orthodox, Jewish and non-Christian religions on perceived in-group discrimination is significant, and cannot be explained by characteristics of the origin or destination countries. The migration history of these groups is also relevant for the perceived discrimination: immigrants who are citizens of the country of their destination, who speak the majority language at home and who are married to a native perceive in-group discrimination less often. There are strong effects of the macro-characteristics of the country of origin. Immigrants from poorer origin countries perceive in-group discrimination more often. There are also a significant effects of immigration policies of the country of destination: easy access to long term residence, more relaxed rules for family reunion, no special policy or a more easy entrance to the labour-market for immigrants and a higher level of job protection decreases perceived in-group discrimination among immigrants.
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