When Ways of Life Collide

Multiculturalism and Its Discontents in the Netherlands

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

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Beskrivning

In 2004, Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh was brutally murdered on a busy Amsterdam street. His killer was Mohammed Bouyeri, a twenty-six-year-old Dutch Moroccan offended by van Gogh's controversial film about Muslim suppression of women. The Dutch government had funded separate schools, housing projects, broadcast media, and community organizations for Muslim immigrants, all under the umbrella of multiculturalism. But the reality of terrorism and radicalization of Muslim immigrants has shattered that dream. In this arresting book, Paul Sniderman and Louk Hagendoorn demonstrate that there are deep conflicts of values in the Netherlands. In the eyes of the Dutch, for example, Muslims oppress women, treating them as inferior to men. In the eyes of Muslim immigrants, Western Europeans deny women the respect they deserve. Western Europe has become a cultural conflict zone. Two ways of life are colliding. Sniderman and Hagendoorn show how identity politics contributed to this crisis. The very policies meant to persuade majority and minority that they are part of the same society strengthened their view that they belong to different societies.At the deepest level, the authors' findings suggest, the issue that government and citizens need to be concerned about is not a conflict of values but a clash of fundamental loyalties.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2009-02-22
Mått:152 x 235 x 13 mm
Vikt:28 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:176
Förlag:Princeton University Press
ISBN:9780691141015
Utmärkelser:Winner of American Political Science Association: Political Psychology Section Robert E. Lane Award 2008

Utforska kategorier

Etnicitet inom Samhälle och politik
Diskriminering och rättvisa inom Samhälle och politik
Migration inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Paul M. Sniderman is Fairleigh S. Dickinson Jr., Professor of Public Policy at Stanford University. Louk Hagendoorn is Professor of Social Science at Utrecht University.

Recensioner i media

Winner of the 2008 Robert E. Lane Award, Political Psychology Section of the American Political Science Association "The authors of When Ways of Life Collide deem the Dutch multicultural experiment to be a grand and unequivocal failure. In their view, multiculturalism and liberal democracy are fundamentally incompatible. Their argument is a relatively simple one: By encouraging 'difference' among ethnic subgroups, multiculturalism ends up turning these groups into targets of resentment and thereby insuring their rejection by the majority culture."--Richard Wolin, The Nation "Sniderman and Hagendoorn expertly describe how, beginning in the 1980s, elite politicians and academics in the Netherlands advocated for an extreme form of accommodation for Dutch immigrants."--T.D. Boswell, Choice "When Ways of Life Collide is a provocative, yet empirical assessment of intrinsic, yet nebulous multiculturalism in today's society."--David Marx, David Marx.co.uk "When Ways of Life Collide is a clever book that offers insight into the attitudinal mechanics of prejudice. These are important issues with high political salience that should interest students of the Netherlands and many other countries around the world."--Rahsaan Maxwell, Review of Middle East Studies "This thought-provoking book provides many interesting insights into the relationships between a culture's values, prejudice, perceived cultural and economic threats, and exclusionary reactions against immigrants, derived from the analysis of a skillfully designed survey. It is relevant to a wide audience concerned with attitudes towards immigrant minorities, immigration, and multiculturalism, as well as to those interested in innovations in survey design."--Eline A. de Rooij, European Sociological Review

Innehållsförteckning

List of Figures and Tables ix Preface xi CHAPTER ONE: Introduction 1 CHAPTER TWO: Muslims 17 CHAPTER THREE: Prejudice 43 CHAPTER FOUR: Identity 71 CHAPTER FIVE: Top-Down Politics 100 CHAPTER SIX: Tolerance 123 A Note about the Data 139 Bibliography 141 Index149

Häftad

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