The Dutch case

Maurizio Ambrosini and

Elena Caneva,

University of Milan

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The context•An old immigration country, compared with the Southern Europe•Focus on Muslims, linked to the immigration from Morocco and Turkey•A contest of enduring inferiority of Muslims in the Dutch society, in terms of education and employment, despite the progress that occurred over time •The concentration in the major cities and the formation of high-density neighbourhoods of immigrants •A decrease of the interactions between aliens and native population

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Muslims in Netherlands

•A case of multiculturalism “avant la lettre " •A shift of the policy towards a more assimilationist approach since the 1990s•The turning point of Van Gogh murder: the growth of an anti-Islamic speech •The concern for the radicalization by young Muslims•The concern for the training of imams and for the promotion of the Islamic Dutch institutions

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Muslims in Netherlands•The fight against the discrimination and the xenophobic violence

•Among assimilationist rhetoric discourses and the promotion of the dialogue

•Among the pillarisation’s heritage, the secularization of the public sphere and the recognition of religions as instances of social cohesion, including Islam

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