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Posted on November 16th, 2007 by martijn.
Categories: Important Publications, Multiculti Issues.
Interview: Paul Sniderman | Higher | EducationGuardian.co.uk
Paul Sniderman: Identity crisis
Paul Sniderman: Identity crisis
Multiculturalism may seem a liberal policy, but it reinforces prejudices, a visiting expert tells John Crace
Tuesday July 3, 2007
The Guardian
The best ideas often have the most unpromising beginnings. Towards the tail end of the 1990s, Paul Sniderman had just finished presenting his findings on immigrant minorities from eastern Europe and Africa to a conference in Italy, when a delegate stood up to ask him a question. “He was only about four sentences in, when I realised there was a huge gap in my research and that I didn’t have a clue what the answer was,” he says.
The question that left him speechless was this: if, as Sniderman claimed, people didn’t distinguish between minorities in their prejudices – those that were systematically hostile to one were likely to be systematically hostile to another – how did he reconcile this with the fact that there were clearly hierarchies of minorities?
Later that afternoon, at a different seminar, the same person asked him another question that was almost as tricky. Again, Sniderman, professor of public policy at Stanford University in California, had no hiding place. “I couldn’t escape the fact that I had clearly made a big mistake,” he says. Many academics might have adopted a policy of damage limitation, before sloping off to lick their wounds in private. Sniderman did something rather different. He invited his conference nemesis – a Dutchman called Louk Hagendoorn – to collaborate on a research project to find out the answers he didn’t have.
This turned out to be the best decision Sniderman ever made. He and Hagendoorn embarked on a study of Muslim minorities in the Netherlands. “We were very lucky,” he says, “because we began our research before anyone was aware there was a problem, before 9/11, and well before the murders of the Dutch film-maker Theo Van Gogh and the gay rightwing politician Pim Fortuyn. This meant there was a purity to our work that wouldn’t have been there if we had been merely reacting to events. We were getting a snapshot of a society before it could be distorted by outside events.”
According to their research – just published in a book, When Ways of Life Collide – deep divisions between locals and Muslim immigrants existed much earlier than anyone had previously suspected in the tolerant, democratic Netherlands. (more…)
Posted on November 16th, 2007 by .
Categories: Important Publications, Multiculti Issues.
Interview: Paul Sniderman | Higher | EducationGuardian.co.uk
Paul Sniderman: Identity crisis
Paul Sniderman: Identity crisis
Multiculturalism may seem a liberal policy, but it reinforces prejudices, a visiting expert tells John Crace
Tuesday July 3, 2007
The Guardian
The best ideas often have the most unpromising beginnings. Towards the tail end of the 1990s, Paul Sniderman had just finished presenting his findings on immigrant minorities from eastern Europe and Africa to a conference in Italy, when a delegate stood up to ask him a question. “He was only about four sentences in, when I realised there was a huge gap in my research and that I didn’t have a clue what the answer was,” he says.
The question that left him speechless was this: if, as Sniderman claimed, people didn’t distinguish between minorities in their prejudices – those that were systematically hostile to one were likely to be systematically hostile to another – how did he reconcile this with the fact that there were clearly hierarchies of minorities?
Later that afternoon, at a different seminar, the same person asked him another question that was almost as tricky. Again, Sniderman, professor of public policy at Stanford University in California, had no hiding place. “I couldn’t escape the fact that I had clearly made a big mistake,” he says. Many academics might have adopted a policy of damage limitation, before sloping off to lick their wounds in private. Sniderman did something rather different. He invited his conference nemesis – a Dutchman called Louk Hagendoorn – to collaborate on a research project to find out the answers he didn’t have.
This turned out to be the best decision Sniderman ever made. He and Hagendoorn embarked on a study of Muslim minorities in the Netherlands. “We were very lucky,” he says, “because we began our research before anyone was aware there was a problem, before 9/11, and well before the murders of the Dutch film-maker Theo Van Gogh and the gay rightwing politician Pim Fortuyn. This meant there was a purity to our work that wouldn’t have been there if we had been merely reacting to events. We were getting a snapshot of a society before it could be distorted by outside events.”
According to their research – just published in a book, When Ways of Life Collide – deep divisions between locals and Muslim immigrants existed much earlier than anyone had previously suspected in the tolerant, democratic Netherlands. (more…)
Posted on November 16th, 2007 by martijn.
Categories: Multiculti Issues.
SCP-publicatie “Discriminatiemonitor niet-westerse allochtonen op de arbeidsmarkt 2007”
Niet-westerse allochtonen nemen ten opzichte van autochtonen een ongunstige positie in op de arbeidsmarkt. Zij hebben een grotere kans op werkloosheid en zijn vaker afhankelijk van tijdelijk werk. In hoeverre speelt discriminatie hierbij een rol? Wordt allochtone groepen structureel vaker een (vaste) baan geweigerd? In hoeverre ervaren niet-westerse allochtonen dat zij worden gediscrimineerd bij sollicitaties of in contacten met collega’s en welke gevolgen heeft dit voor het arbeidsmarktgedrag? Op basis van literatuuronderzoek, informatie uit bevolkingsenquêtes en surveys, oordelen van de Commissie Gelijke Behandeling, inventarisatie van klachten bij Anti-discriminatiebureaus en gesprekken met verschillende groepen niet-westerse allochtonen zelf is getracht de aard en omvang van arbeidsdiscriminatie in Nederland in kaart te brengen.
De discriminatiemonitor is uitgevoerd op verzoek van het ministerie van Sociale Zaken en Werkgelegenheid. Het rapport is gezamenlijk geschreven door het Sociaal en Cultureel Planbureau en Art.1.
Samenvatting (persbericht): (more…)
Posted on November 16th, 2007 by .
Categories: Multiculti Issues.
SCP-publicatie “Discriminatiemonitor niet-westerse allochtonen op de arbeidsmarkt 2007”
Niet-westerse allochtonen nemen ten opzichte van autochtonen een ongunstige positie in op de arbeidsmarkt. Zij hebben een grotere kans op werkloosheid en zijn vaker afhankelijk van tijdelijk werk. In hoeverre speelt discriminatie hierbij een rol? Wordt allochtone groepen structureel vaker een (vaste) baan geweigerd? In hoeverre ervaren niet-westerse allochtonen dat zij worden gediscrimineerd bij sollicitaties of in contacten met collega’s en welke gevolgen heeft dit voor het arbeidsmarktgedrag? Op basis van literatuuronderzoek, informatie uit bevolkingsenquêtes en surveys, oordelen van de Commissie Gelijke Behandeling, inventarisatie van klachten bij Anti-discriminatiebureaus en gesprekken met verschillende groepen niet-westerse allochtonen zelf is getracht de aard en omvang van arbeidsdiscriminatie in Nederland in kaart te brengen.
De discriminatiemonitor is uitgevoerd op verzoek van het ministerie van Sociale Zaken en Werkgelegenheid. Het rapport is gezamenlijk geschreven door het Sociaal en Cultureel Planbureau en Art.1.
Samenvatting (persbericht): (more…)
Posted on November 16th, 2007 by martijn.
Categories: Multiculti Issues.
SCP-publicatie “Jaarrapport Integratie 2007”
Het Jaarrapport Integratie 2007 beschrijft aan de hand van uiteenlopende indicatoren de integratie van niet-westerse allochtonen in Nederland. De aandacht gaat uit naar onder meer de situatie van allochtone leerlingen in het onderwijs, de positie op de arbeids- en woningmarkt, de vertegenwoordiging in de criminaliteit, de sociaal-culturele integratie en de betekenis van religie.
Het beeld van de integratie van niet-westerse allochtonen is divers: sommige groepen kenmerken zich door een forse sociaal-economische achterstand en een aanzienlijke sociaal-culturele afstand. Tegelijkertijd blijkt dat de diversiteit tussen en binnen groepen zeer groot is en dat in het onderwijs en op de arbeids- en woningmarkt duidelijk positieve ontwikkelingen gaande zijn.
Uitgebreide samenvatting (Persbericht): (more…)
Posted on November 16th, 2007 by .
Categories: Multiculti Issues.
SCP-publicatie “Jaarrapport Integratie 2007”
Het Jaarrapport Integratie 2007 beschrijft aan de hand van uiteenlopende indicatoren de integratie van niet-westerse allochtonen in Nederland. De aandacht gaat uit naar onder meer de situatie van allochtone leerlingen in het onderwijs, de positie op de arbeids- en woningmarkt, de vertegenwoordiging in de criminaliteit, de sociaal-culturele integratie en de betekenis van religie.
Het beeld van de integratie van niet-westerse allochtonen is divers: sommige groepen kenmerken zich door een forse sociaal-economische achterstand en een aanzienlijke sociaal-culturele afstand. Tegelijkertijd blijkt dat de diversiteit tussen en binnen groepen zeer groot is en dat in het onderwijs en op de arbeids- en woningmarkt duidelijk positieve ontwikkelingen gaande zijn.
Uitgebreide samenvatting (Persbericht): (more…)