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Redistribution and ethnic diversity in the Netherlands: accomodation, denial and replacement
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Author
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Abstract
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Redistributive policies concerning migrants in The Netherlands bear a striking degree of ethnic specificity. This characteristic seems to follow from the doctrine `integration with maintenance of own culture' that has long informed Dutch minority policies. However, both central and local governments stopped subscribing to this doctrine at least a decade ago, while ethnically specific policy arrangements have continued to grow. This article explains the anomaly from an administrative mechanism: the logic of categorization for policy-making contradicts the logic of policy implementation. The use of what we call `replacement categories' creates an administrative opportunity structure that unintentionally promotes ethnic fragmentation. We examine the workings of this mechanism in a case study of minority policy in The Netherlands |
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Language
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English
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Source (journal)
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Acta sociologica : journal of the Scandinavian Sociological Association. - Copenhagen, 1955, currens
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Publication
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Copenhagen
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2007
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ISSN
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0001-6993
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1502-3869
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Volume/pages
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50
:4
(2007)
, p. 387-400
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ISI
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000251991400003
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Full text (Publisher's DOI)
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