Am Dienstag, 26.06.2018, 16 Uhr spricht im Rahmen des Research Seminars (Departments für Management)

Prof. Dr. Maurice Crul

Faculty of Social Sciences, Sociology Identities, Diversity and Inclusion (IDI), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam/Erasmus University Rotterdam

zum Thema:

"The other side of integration. How do people of native descent integrate in majority minority neighborhoods?"

Raum D2.0.374

Abstract:

Over the last forty years, researchers in the Field of Migration and Ethnic Studies looked at the integration of migrants and their descendants in host societies. Concepts, methodological tools and theoretical frameworks have been developed to measure and predict integration outcomes. In a city like Amsterdam, today only one in three youngsters under the age of fifteen is of Dutch descent. This situation, in the literature referred to as a majority-minority context, is a new, but rapidly growing phenomenon in Western Europe. The process of people of native ‘white’ descent becoming a minority is arguably one of the most important societal and psychological transformations of our time. With the present-day backlash against migrants in Europe, it becomes clear that integration processes of all groups involved cannot be fully understood if we do not also look at the acceptance or rejection of this increased ethnic diversity by the people of native ‘white’ descent. Professor Maurice Crul will sketch some of the emerging ideas about the other side of integration.

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Maurice Crul

Professor of Sociology at the Free University in Amsterdam. In 2017 he was awarded the ERC advanced grant for the project ‘Becoming a Minority’ (BAM) on the integration of people of native descent in majority minority cities in Europe. In the last twenty five years Maurice Crul mostly worked on the topic of education and children of immigrants, first within the Dutch context and in the last fifteen years in a comparative European and transatlantic context. Maurice Crul has coordinated two major international projects: the TIES project (The Integration of the European Second generation) and the so-called ELITES project.

The core part of the TIES project, which included partners in 11 countries, was a survey among the second generation of Turkish, Moroccan and former Yugoslavian and Russian descent in nineteen cities: www.tiesproject.eu. The TIES survey is the first comparative survey among the second generation in Europe and includes information about school and labour market careers, identity and transnationalism.

The ‘ELITES: Pathways to Success’ targets a sub sample of successful second generation from the TIES survey looking at their pathways to success in Sweden, France, Germany and The Netherlands: www.elitesproject.eu/elites/.

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