Islam en gender bij Marokkaanse jongeren in Nederland

Muslim identity generally is strongly related to gender issues, like the key role of women in the family and their chastity. This article deals with how Moroccan adolescents in the Netherlands define their identity as a Muslim: are they strict or lenient, are they loyal to the beliefs of islamic authorities and their parents or critical? Next, we address the relation between their positioning as a Muslim and their notions regarding gender relations, as well as the differences between girls and boys in this respect. The data are based on a study of the available literature and group discussions with young Moroccans

Strijders van eigen bodem

Since 9/11 and especially since the assassination of the Dutch filmmaker and critic of Islam Theo van Gogh in November 2004, second-generation Muslims have come into the center of public attention in the Netherlands. While a small group of radicals have turned away from society to fight the decadent West, democratic active Muslim youth stand for a larger involvement into Dutch society.In Homegrown Warriors both the radicals and the democratic Muslims voice their views on political choices, Islam, democracy and violence. This study portrays the influence of social factors such as deprivation and exclusion on the radicalization process. The authors analyze the special position of the second-generation Muslim youth and portray the attraction of extreme ideas. The authors offer a clear analysis of the different causes and different radicalization processes. Young radical Muslims, who call themselves Salafis, are a less uniform group than is often thought, and their internal conflicts are an important starting point for rolling back extremism

Monitor Racisme & Extremisme : Deradicaliseren in de praktijk

Waarom houden personen op radicaal te zijn? Kan een proces van deradicalisering worden gestimuleerd of ondersteund? Geïnspireerd op buitenlandse ervaringen is in de gemeentes Winschoten en Eindhoven gedurende twee jaar geëxperimenteerd met een deradicaliseringsaanpak voor rechtsradicale jongeren. Deze rapportage is de weerslag van een studie die door de Universiteit Leiden en de Anne Frank Stichting werd verricht naar de aanpak in beide gemeentes. Er is onderzocht in hoeverre lokale instellingen een actieve rol kunnen spelen bij het tegengaan en terugdraaien van radicaliseringsprocessen. Het onderzoek werd uitgevoerd door Froukje Demant, Willem Wagenaar en Jaap van Donselaar

The Endogenous Economy: 'Real' Economic Conditions, Subjective Economic Evaluations and Government Support

Conventional wisdom holds that the state of the economy is closely linked to the outcomes of elections: incumbent governments tend to be rewarded for good economic times and punished for bad ones. It has been suggested that the 'subjective economy' — people's assessments of the state of the economy — links actual economic conditions to support for the government. Indicators of such assessments are therefore frequently included in voter surveys. Such subjective information has been criticized, however, as being endogenous: being caused by rather than a cause of vote choice. The purpose of this paper is to assess the relevance of the subjective economy for linking objective economic conditions and support for the government at the individual level. To this end, we specify and estimate a series of rivaling causal models, and compare them in terms of fit and parsimony. We find unambiguous support for the endogeneity interpretation of the subjective economy, which implies that it cannot play a sensible role in the causal elaboration of economic voting models

LISS panel > National Freedom Study 2020

This survey focuses on the 4th and the 5th of May, on which the Netherlands commemorates its victims of war and celebrates the day it was liberated, and the general ideas of the Dutch people on freedom