AMSTERDAM
3. 'INTOLERABLE STRANGERS'
Laurie Taylor continues his visit to Amsterdam. Despite a reputation for diversity and tolerance, some now claim that the very young, the elderly and those who have come to the Dutch capital as immigrants are no longer as welcome in the city as they once were.
According to statistics, Amsterdam has the highest number of 'foreign ' residents of any Western European City, principally people of Moroccan, Turkish and Surinamese descent. Laurie Taylor finds out who is visible and who is not on the streets of Amsterdam .
First in the Surinamese suburb of Amsterdam Laurie Taylor meets Miss Rose and Marie, residents of Bijlmer housing estate and Aspha Bijnaar a graduate sociologist from the University of Amsterdam who stayed on the estate where she had moved to conduct her research on the informal saving and credit arrangement of the Surinamese 'Kasimoni ' scheme.
Dr. Lia Karsten Lecturer at the University of Amsterdam explains the consequences of a piece of town planning on the elderly and child population.
In Kolenkit, another suburb of Amsterdam with a large concentration of Turkish and Moroccan citizens, Laurie meets Dr. Manuel Aalbers a sociologist and urban planner.
Back in the centre, Laurie is joined by Paul Scheffer, cultural critic and public intellectual to talk about integration, whilst Professor Rinus Penninx Director of the Institute of Migration and Ethnic Studies at the University of Amsterdam, discusses the idea of a coherent Dutch national identity.
Additional information
Aspha Bijnaar
Econonic anthropologist
Kasmoni
Publisher: to be confirmed
ISBN: to be confirmed
Dr . Lia Karsten
Amsterdam Human Capital: What about children?
in Amsterdam Human Capital
by Sako Musterd (Editor), Willem Salet (Editor)
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press p 217-227
ISBN 9053565957
Family gentrifiers: Challenging the city as a place simultaneously to build a career and to raise children
Urban Studies, special issue on gentrification, 40, 12: 2573-2584.
Urban Studies Journal
An International Journal for Research in Urban and Regional Studies
Dr. Manuel Aalbers
Sociologist and urban planner, junior Researcher/PhD-candidate at AMIDSt, University of Amsterdam
Professor Rinus Penninx
Director of the institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies at the University of Amsterdam
Immigrant Integration: The Dutch Case
Hans Vermeulen (Editor), Rinus Penninx (Editor)
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN 9055891762
Impact of International Migration on Receiving Countries: The Case of the Netherlands
Publisher: Swets & Zeitlinger
ISBN 9026513445
Newcomers: Immigrants and Their Descendants in the Netherlands 1550-1995
Jan Lucassen, Rinus Penninx
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN 9055890936
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