Monitoring ethnic minorities in the Netherlands

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Title:	Monitoring ethnic minorities in the Netherlands
Author(s):	Guiraudon, V.; Phalet, K. ; Wal, J. ter
Publication year:	2005
Source:	International Social Science Journal, vol. 57, iss. 1, (2005), pp. 75-88
Number of Pages:	13 p.
ISSN:	0020-8701
DOI:	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0020-8701.2005.00532.x
Publication type:	Article / Letter to editor
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Subject:	Inequality Cohesion Rationalization Ongelijkheid Cohesie Rationalisatie
Organization:	FSW_Fac. algemeen SW OZ NISCO SOC
Journal title:	International Social Science Journal
Volume:	vol. 57
Issue:	iss. 1
Page start:	p. 75
Page end:	p. 88
Abstract:	The article first summarises the history of ethnic minority policy in the Netherlands and the development of the ‘ethnic minority’ and ‘allochthonous’ categories, which are peculiar in comparative perspective in emphasising socio-economic disadvantage as a constitutive dimension of minority status and in setting the minority question within the broader Dutch political principle of ‘pillarisation’. The article then examines the use of statistics in public policy, in a context where the national census has been discontinued since 1971, focusing more specifically on the case of education, where major statistical efforts have been devoted to identifying patterns of disadvantage and integration. Finally, the article briefly examines current debates on the situation of ethnic minorities in the Netherlands in the context of growing questioning of established Dutch models of minority policy.