The Position of the Turkish and Moroccan Second Generation in Amsterdam and Rotterdam

by Crul, Maurice

• ISBN13: 9789089640611
• ISBN10: 9089640614
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-02-15
• Publisher: Amsterdam Univ Pr

Summary

This first publication of the TIES Project (Towards the Integration of the European Second Generation) examines the social stratification and views of the second Dutch generation of Turkish and Moroccan origin living in the Netherlands. Drawing on research carried out in 20067 the Dutch-born children of immigrants from Turkey and Morocco in Amsterdam and Rotterdam and a comparison group of young people whose parents were born in the Netherlands, this volume sheds important light on the lives of the second-generation Muslim youth coming of age and making a transition from education to the labor market.

Author Biography

Maurice Crul is a senior researcher at the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies at the University of Amsterdam. Liesbeth Heering is researcher at the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 9
Acknowledgements	p. 11
List of tables	p. 13
Introduction	p. 19
The Ties project	p. 19
Theoretical and methodological backgrounds	p. 21
The Ties project in the Netherlands	p. 23
Migration history and demographic characteristics of the two second-generation groups	p. 27
Introduction	p. 27
Immigration trends and migration policy: a brief historic overview	p. 27
People of Turkish and Moroccan descent in Amsterdam and Rotterdam	p. 31
Demographic characteristics of the second generation in the TIES survey	p. 34
Demographic characteristics of the second generation	p. 34
Demographic characteristics of the parents	p. 36
Demographic characteristics of the siblings	p. 42
Household size and position	p. 43
Conclusions	p. 45
Housing and segregation	p. 49
Introduction	p. 49
Housing situation	p. 49
Concentration and segregation	p. 52
Housing policies	p. 54
Housing situation of the second generation	p. 56
Conclusions	p. 62
Education	p. 63
Introduction	p. 63
The educational system in the Netherlands	p. 63
Educational priority policies in the Netherlands	p. 65
Overview of the educational position of pupils and students of Moroccan and Turkish descent	p. 66
Ties respondents: entry into school	p. 67
Primary education	p. 68
Secondary education	p. 72
Experiences at school	p. 77
The parental home and education	p. 80
Conclusions	p. 84
Labour and income	p. 87
Introduction	p. 87
Ethnic minorities in labour market policies	p. 87
The labour market position of Turks and Moroccans in Amsterdam and Rotterdam	p. 90
Labour market position of the three study groups in the Ties survey	p. 91
Income position of the three ethnic groups in the TIES survey	p. 97
Discrimination on the labour market	p. 99
Conclusions	p. 102
Identities and intercultural relations	p. 105
Introduction	p. 105
Dutch context of identity and intercultural relations	p. 106
Indicators of identity	p. 108
Language proficiency and use	p. 112
Religion	p. 113
Affiliation with religion	p. 113
Religiosity	p. 114
Transnationalism	p. 119
Intercultural relations	p. 120
Preferred norms and values	p. 120
Views on the multicultural society	p. 121
Views on members of other ethnic and social groups	p. 123
Conclusions	p. 124
Social relations	p. 129
Introduction	p. 129
Ethnic character of friendships in secondary school and at present	p. 129
Participation in and ethnic orientation of social organisations	p. 132
Perceptions on personal and group discrimination	p. 134
Conclusions	p. 140
Union and family formation	p. 143
Introduction	p. 143
The context of union and family formation among immigrants	p. 143
Union formation among the TIES respondents: timing and type of current relationships	p. 145
Meeting places and family influence	p. 148
Partner choice: partner characteristics	p. 149
Family formation	p. 153
Task division	p. 154
Conclusions	p. 158
Conclusions and implications	p. 161
Study implications	p. 165
Sample design, Ties survey implementation and evaluation	p. 169
Sample design	p. 169
Ties survey implementation	p. 175
Ties survey evaluation	p. 176
Conclusies en aanbevelingen	p. 181
List of contributors	p. 189
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