In Aug 1976, in Schiedam, a Dutch town, a violent encounter took place between two Turkish & ... more In Aug 1976, in Schiedam, a Dutch town, a violent encounter took place between two Turkish & at least five Dutch youngsters. One of the Dutch boys was killed by one of the Turks, who then escaped & could not be traced by the police. For five days afterwards, groups of Dutch youngsters attacked Turkish property & some persons. The Schiedam riot was studied to collect some information about a neglected aspect of collective behavior: the organizational part of it. Two questions were posed: (1) How does a collectivity get its form? (2) Is there a division of tasks to achieve the objectives of a collectivity, & if so, what is the nature of these tasks? Data were collected in 96 interviews with people who were involved in the riot (mostly Dutch youngsters) who participated in the collective actions, but also policemen & members of the Turkish community. The most important aim was to formulate some hypotheses at the end of the study. A detailed description of the events of the riot is presented. Findings are confronted with a number of theoretical orientations in the field of collective behavior. Several hypotheses are formulated: (A) if a group thinks its norms are seriously violated by a member of another community & that there is little chance that the violator will be punished by the authorities, the aggrieved group will take action to punish him or have him punished; (B) if a collectivity has the intention of punishing a person held responsible for serious violation of norms, & it it is composed of persons who traditionally are physically violent, this collectivity will punish the violator with physical violence; (C) if an aggrieved collectivity undertakes action to punish a norm violator, the recruiting will be based on friendship & acquaintance preexistent to the riot; (D) if a collectivity is composed of subgroups preexistent to a riot, the leadership group will be recruited from members of these subgroups, & then the leaders will do most of the tasks themselves; (E) if the leadership group of a collectivity is mainly recruited from subgroups, the general leader (acceptable for all participants) is not a member of one of these groups; & (F) if the original objectives of a riot have been achieved, then the expressive objectives will grow more important than the instrumental ones, to make the riot last, & further, as the riot endures, the objectives & tasks will be more bound to the subgroups & also more directed against the controlling agencies. 1 Table. Modified AA
In 1978, the Dutch government presented a paper called "De problematiek van de Molukse minde... more In 1978, the Dutch government presented a paper called "De problematiek van de Molukse minderheid in Nederland" (The Problems of the Moluccan Minority in the Netherlands). In this booklet, an overview was given of the governmental policy for the near future toward the Moluccan minority. Also, the Dutch position concerning the Moluccan wish for an independent Republic of the South Moluccas (the Republik Maluku Selatan) was stated, & an explanation was given for the adherence of many young Moluccans to that ideal. These three points are criticized here on the grounds of research done on the Moluccan community. The standpoint of the Dutch government concerning an independent Republic of the South Moluccas is that on juridical, historical, & factual grounds, no support will & may be given to this aim. Some comments are presented on the juridical & historical aspects, but the focus is on the view of the government of the factual situation. The continuing aspirations of many Mol...
Cultural orientation and socio-economic integration of immigrants in the Netherlands, Louk Hagend... more Cultural orientation and socio-economic integration of immigrants in the Netherlands, Louk Hagendoorn, Justus Veenman and Wilma Vollebergh Migration and immigrant policy, immigrants from Turkey and their participation in the labour market - an international comparison, Philip Muus Why the Dutch maintain more social distance from some ethnic minorities than from others - a model explaining the ethnic hierarchy, Jose Pepels and Louk Hagendoorn Myths and realities of diversity in parenting and parent-child relations - Non-indigenous compared to indigenous families in the Netherlands, Trees Pels and Cecile Nijsten Child-rearing and development in Dutch, Turkish and Moroccan families in the Netherlands, Annerieke Oosterwegel, Wilma Vollebergh, Trees Pels and Cecile Nijsten Normative orientation and academic achievement in a school context, Maykel Verkuyten and Kadir Canatan Nominative orientation, acculturation and school success of Turkish pupils, Karen Phalet The ethnic-cultural and socio-economic position of minority groups in the Netherlands, Arend Ode and Justus Veenman The cultural integration of immigrants in the Netherlands - a description and explanation of modern attitudes of Turks, Moroccans, Surinamese, Antilleans and the indigenous population, Wilfred Uunk Integration and assimilation of migrants in the Netherlands - Conclusions, Justus Veenman and Wilma Vollebergh.
Current quantitative sociological research on the school careers of ethnic minority youth in the ... more Current quantitative sociological research on the school careers of ethnic minority youth in the Netherlands focuses on whether parents' socioeconomic status (SES) is totally responsible for their children's educational careers. Here, a matching procedure is used to determine the extent to which first-generation ethnic minority parents have an equivalent SES compared to native Dutch parents. SES is revealed as a very important explanatory factor, but not the only one. Furthermore, since matching considerably reduced the number of people in the Dutch as well as in the ethnic minority sample, it seems that both groups are only partially compared on SES. Thus, a call is made for more qualitative research that might lead to insight into process variables, while quantitative research strongly focuses on product variables. 2 Tables, 35 References. Adapted from the source document.
ABSTRACT The emergent transitional labour market offers new opportunities to workers, while incre... more ABSTRACT The emergent transitional labour market offers new opportunities to workers, while increasing the risk of social exclusion at the same time. This article deals with exclusionary risks on the transitional labour market in the Netherlands. We try to find out whether immigrants bear higher risks than Dutch natives, possibly as a consequence of having fewer transition skills. The data used are from the Sociale Positie en Voorzieningengebruik Allochtonen (‘Social Position and Use of Public Utilities by Migrants’, SPVA) survey for the years 1998 and 2002. Since the analysis of transitions is hindered by lack of panel data, particularly on immigrants, we estimate hazard rate models that take the individuals’ labour market history into account. As we do not have direct information on workers’ transition skills, we use a decomposition method to control for differences in individual labour market characteristics. The main result of the analyses is that unequal risks exist, but to a different degree for various immigrant groups and with variations per transition type. Transition skills seem less important than human capital characteristics.
Immigration tends to have a mitigating effect on the socioeconomic gender gap among immigrants. T... more Immigration tends to have a mitigating effect on the socioeconomic gender gap among immigrants. To explain this finding, we propose a gender convergence hypothesis that states that migration to a modern ‘open ’ society offers women the opportunity to improve their position relative to that of men. In such a society, there are (almost) equal chances to participate in education and paid labor. The equalizing effect will be larger if the immigrants come from less developed regions, since women then have more room to improve their position. However, there may also be countervailing cultural powers within the immigrant group. The gender convergence hypothesis proposed here is tested for immigrants in the Netherlands. Using survey data, we investigate the educational and labor market position of Turkish, Moroccan, Surinamese, and Antillean males and females. We find convergent trends, particularly among Moroccan immigrants who come from less developed regions in their country of origin an...
2008 The allocation of Moluccan immigrants across towns and villages at arrival in the Netherland... more 2008 The allocation of Moluccan immigrants across towns and villages at arrival in the Netherlands and the subsequent formation of interethnic marriages re-semble a natural experiment. The exogenous variation in marriage formation allows us to estimate the causal effect of interethnic marriages on the educa-tional attainment of children from such marriages. We find that children from Moluccan fathers and native mothers have a higher educational attainment than children from ethnic homogeneous Moluccan couples or children from a Moluccan mother and a native father.
In Aug 1976, in Schiedam, a Dutch town, a violent encounter took place between two Turkish & ... more In Aug 1976, in Schiedam, a Dutch town, a violent encounter took place between two Turkish & at least five Dutch youngsters. One of the Dutch boys was killed by one of the Turks, who then escaped & could not be traced by the police. For five days afterwards, groups of Dutch youngsters attacked Turkish property & some persons. The Schiedam riot was studied to collect some information about a neglected aspect of collective behavior: the organizational part of it. Two questions were posed: (1) How does a collectivity get its form? (2) Is there a division of tasks to achieve the objectives of a collectivity, & if so, what is the nature of these tasks? Data were collected in 96 interviews with people who were involved in the riot (mostly Dutch youngsters) who participated in the collective actions, but also policemen & members of the Turkish community. The most important aim was to formulate some hypotheses at the end of the study. A detailed description of the events of the riot is presented. Findings are confronted with a number of theoretical orientations in the field of collective behavior. Several hypotheses are formulated: (A) if a group thinks its norms are seriously violated by a member of another community & that there is little chance that the violator will be punished by the authorities, the aggrieved group will take action to punish him or have him punished; (B) if a collectivity has the intention of punishing a person held responsible for serious violation of norms, & it it is composed of persons who traditionally are physically violent, this collectivity will punish the violator with physical violence; (C) if an aggrieved collectivity undertakes action to punish a norm violator, the recruiting will be based on friendship & acquaintance preexistent to the riot; (D) if a collectivity is composed of subgroups preexistent to a riot, the leadership group will be recruited from members of these subgroups, & then the leaders will do most of the tasks themselves; (E) if the leadership group of a collectivity is mainly recruited from subgroups, the general leader (acceptable for all participants) is not a member of one of these groups; & (F) if the original objectives of a riot have been achieved, then the expressive objectives will grow more important than the instrumental ones, to make the riot last, & further, as the riot endures, the objectives & tasks will be more bound to the subgroups & also more directed against the controlling agencies. 1 Table. Modified AA
In 1978, the Dutch government presented a paper called "De problematiek van de Molukse minde... more In 1978, the Dutch government presented a paper called "De problematiek van de Molukse minderheid in Nederland" (The Problems of the Moluccan Minority in the Netherlands). In this booklet, an overview was given of the governmental policy for the near future toward the Moluccan minority. Also, the Dutch position concerning the Moluccan wish for an independent Republic of the South Moluccas (the Republik Maluku Selatan) was stated, & an explanation was given for the adherence of many young Moluccans to that ideal. These three points are criticized here on the grounds of research done on the Moluccan community. The standpoint of the Dutch government concerning an independent Republic of the South Moluccas is that on juridical, historical, & factual grounds, no support will & may be given to this aim. Some comments are presented on the juridical & historical aspects, but the focus is on the view of the government of the factual situation. The continuing aspirations of many Mol...
Cultural orientation and socio-economic integration of immigrants in the Netherlands, Louk Hagend... more Cultural orientation and socio-economic integration of immigrants in the Netherlands, Louk Hagendoorn, Justus Veenman and Wilma Vollebergh Migration and immigrant policy, immigrants from Turkey and their participation in the labour market - an international comparison, Philip Muus Why the Dutch maintain more social distance from some ethnic minorities than from others - a model explaining the ethnic hierarchy, Jose Pepels and Louk Hagendoorn Myths and realities of diversity in parenting and parent-child relations - Non-indigenous compared to indigenous families in the Netherlands, Trees Pels and Cecile Nijsten Child-rearing and development in Dutch, Turkish and Moroccan families in the Netherlands, Annerieke Oosterwegel, Wilma Vollebergh, Trees Pels and Cecile Nijsten Normative orientation and academic achievement in a school context, Maykel Verkuyten and Kadir Canatan Nominative orientation, acculturation and school success of Turkish pupils, Karen Phalet The ethnic-cultural and socio-economic position of minority groups in the Netherlands, Arend Ode and Justus Veenman The cultural integration of immigrants in the Netherlands - a description and explanation of modern attitudes of Turks, Moroccans, Surinamese, Antilleans and the indigenous population, Wilfred Uunk Integration and assimilation of migrants in the Netherlands - Conclusions, Justus Veenman and Wilma Vollebergh.
Current quantitative sociological research on the school careers of ethnic minority youth in the ... more Current quantitative sociological research on the school careers of ethnic minority youth in the Netherlands focuses on whether parents' socioeconomic status (SES) is totally responsible for their children's educational careers. Here, a matching procedure is used to determine the extent to which first-generation ethnic minority parents have an equivalent SES compared to native Dutch parents. SES is revealed as a very important explanatory factor, but not the only one. Furthermore, since matching considerably reduced the number of people in the Dutch as well as in the ethnic minority sample, it seems that both groups are only partially compared on SES. Thus, a call is made for more qualitative research that might lead to insight into process variables, while quantitative research strongly focuses on product variables. 2 Tables, 35 References. Adapted from the source document.
ABSTRACT The emergent transitional labour market offers new opportunities to workers, while incre... more ABSTRACT The emergent transitional labour market offers new opportunities to workers, while increasing the risk of social exclusion at the same time. This article deals with exclusionary risks on the transitional labour market in the Netherlands. We try to find out whether immigrants bear higher risks than Dutch natives, possibly as a consequence of having fewer transition skills. The data used are from the Sociale Positie en Voorzieningengebruik Allochtonen (‘Social Position and Use of Public Utilities by Migrants’, SPVA) survey for the years 1998 and 2002. Since the analysis of transitions is hindered by lack of panel data, particularly on immigrants, we estimate hazard rate models that take the individuals’ labour market history into account. As we do not have direct information on workers’ transition skills, we use a decomposition method to control for differences in individual labour market characteristics. The main result of the analyses is that unequal risks exist, but to a different degree for various immigrant groups and with variations per transition type. Transition skills seem less important than human capital characteristics.
Immigration tends to have a mitigating effect on the socioeconomic gender gap among immigrants. T... more Immigration tends to have a mitigating effect on the socioeconomic gender gap among immigrants. To explain this finding, we propose a gender convergence hypothesis that states that migration to a modern ‘open ’ society offers women the opportunity to improve their position relative to that of men. In such a society, there are (almost) equal chances to participate in education and paid labor. The equalizing effect will be larger if the immigrants come from less developed regions, since women then have more room to improve their position. However, there may also be countervailing cultural powers within the immigrant group. The gender convergence hypothesis proposed here is tested for immigrants in the Netherlands. Using survey data, we investigate the educational and labor market position of Turkish, Moroccan, Surinamese, and Antillean males and females. We find convergent trends, particularly among Moroccan immigrants who come from less developed regions in their country of origin an...
2008 The allocation of Moluccan immigrants across towns and villages at arrival in the Netherland... more 2008 The allocation of Moluccan immigrants across towns and villages at arrival in the Netherlands and the subsequent formation of interethnic marriages re-semble a natural experiment. The exogenous variation in marriage formation allows us to estimate the causal effect of interethnic marriages on the educa-tional attainment of children from such marriages. We find that children from Moluccan fathers and native mothers have a higher educational attainment than children from ethnic homogeneous Moluccan couples or children from a Moluccan mother and a native father.
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