Cat in the Throat: Caroline Bergvall's plurilingual bodies

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Wederzijdse beeldvorming

De Nederlandse bevolking werd in het nog niet zo verre verleden als relatief tolerant gezien. Dat beeld veranderde radicaal na de aanslagen in New York in 2001, de opkomst van Fortuijn in 2002 en de moord op Van Gogh in 2004. Deze gebeurtenissen versterkten de angst voor moslimterrorisme. In 2005 publiceerde het Global attitudes project (Pew Research Center 2005) de bevinding dat in Nederland driekwart van de bevolking zich zorgen maakte over moslimextremisme in eigen land, terwijl in geen ander onderzocht land een meerderheid van de bevolking een negatieve opinie had over moslims. Ook vond een verharding plaats in het politieke en publieke debat over niet-westerse migranten in Nederland. In dit hoofdstuk bekijken we in hoeverre de verharding in de eerste jaren van de eenentwintigste eeuw terug te zien is in langjarig trendonderzoek. Daarnaast bezien we of opinies over de multi-etnische samenleving negatiever worden tijdens de recente internationale kredietcrisis. [...

Buurtverschillen in zeven grote steden. De verkiezingsuitslag van 15 mei

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Een vergelijking van de arbeidsmarktpositie van Polen en Bulgaren voor en na migratie naar Nederland

Contains fulltext : 122652.pdf (publisher's version ) (Open Access)This article compares the pre and post migration position in the labour market of recent migrants to the Netherlands from Poland and Bulgaria, regarding the extent to which migrants have a job, what their socioeconomic status is, and how satisfied they are with their income. The prime question is whether those migrants who found a job in the Netherlands work in a lower socio-economic status job than before migration, with which we test the first part of the U-curve-hypothesis, putting forward that migration results in a loss of job status. We used the dataset ‘Social and Cultural Integration Processes’ (SCIP). This dataset collected information from migrants that registered in the Dutch Municipality Population Registers to a maximum of one and a half year before the start of the survey. We find evidence that almost all Poles have a job in the Netherlands, but, excluding those who were in school in Poland before migration, most had a job in Poland as well. The situation for the Bulgarians is less positive, even though they more often have a job in the Netherlands than they had in Bulgaria. Within both migrant groups the socioeconomic status of the job in the Netherlands is lower than the status of the last job in the country of origin, but less so for family-motivated migrants and higher educated migrants. Income satisfaction has increased substantially for both groups.21 p

The legitimation of income inequality in state-socialist and market societies

Item does not contain fulltextAbstract What attitudes relating to differences in occupational earnings did people in state-socialist societies hold before and after the transformation in 1989, compared with people in market-regulated societies? And, how can differences between and changes within these societies in attitudes towards income inequality be explained? To find out, hypotheses are tested using survey data from the International Social Survey Programme, comparing several state-socialist societies with several market societies both before (1987) and after (1992) the political and economic transformation. Before the transformation, the public in central and eastern Europe was much more egalitarian than in market-regulated societies. The results show that the amount of income inequality that people think legitimate has increased in all countries, but the increase was far more dramatic in former state-socialist than in market-regulated societies. Differences in the class and demographic composition of the population hardly explain variations in inequality attitudes between societies, but differences in perceptions of income inequality do