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Segmented assimilation in the Netherlands? Young migrants and early school leaving

There has been ongoing debate in the Netherlands in recent years about second-generation immigrant youth, a debate fuelled by two, rather persistent phenomena: high school dropout and unemployment among migrant youth. Fear exists that migrant youth will become marginalized. This raises the question to what extent the position of migrant youth can be viewed as manifesting downward mobility, leading to a form of segmented assimilation? This article examines the problems of education and dropout, and discusses the significance of the many statistics which either prove or refute the assumed gravity of the problem. Then follows an outline of the policy landscape and the concomitant ethnifying effects to complete the picture. We conclude that downward segmented assimilation is not the dominant trend, and end with a discussion of new forms of ethnic exclusion that lay the blame for not integrating well into Dutch society at the foot of migrant youth themselves.

Segmented assimilation in the Netherlands? Young migrants and early school leaving

Urheber*in: Graaf, Willibrord de; Zenderen, Kaj van

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Extent
Seite(n): 1470-1488
Language
Englisch
Notes
Status: Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

Bibliographic citation
Ethnic and Racial Studies, 32(8)

Subject
Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie
Migration

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Graaf, Willibrord de
Zenderen, Kaj van
Event
Veröffentlichung
(where)
Vereinigtes Königreich
(when)
2009

DOI
URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-164327
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  • Zeitschriftenartikel

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  • Graaf, Willibrord de
  • Zenderen, Kaj van

Time of origin

  • 2009

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