Trade-Offs between Equality and Difference: The Crisis of Dutch Multiculturalism in Cross-National Perspective

Ruud Koopmans

"It is much easier to refute explanations in terms of immigrant population size and composition than it is to make a convincing positive case for the link between integration policies and outcomes.. There are two ways in which one can approach this issue, which one might call the weak and strong judgment on Dutch multiculturalism. The weak judgment entails the conclusion that multicultural policies have not contributed to the improvement of the socio-economic position of immigrants in the Netherlands, even though they have been partly or entirely legitimated with that aim in the past.... READ MORE.