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More than Two Decades of Changing Ethnic Attitudes in the Netherlands

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ID10225833
AuthorsM Coenders (0000-0002-5625-2114, Utrecht University), Marcel Lubbers (0000-0001-6295-6356, Utrecht University), Peer Scheepers (0000-0002-9689-8139, Radboud University Nijmegen), M Verkuyten (0000-0003-0137-1527, Utrecht University, corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume64
Issue2
Pages269-285
Publication date2008-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Social Issues (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-4537 • E-ISSN: 1540-4560
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1540-4560.2008.00561.x
OpenAlexW2144791573
LanguageEN
Citations received96
References cited33

This article uses data from three studies to examine changing reactions toward ethnic minority groups in the Netherlands (1979–2002). Using realistic conflict theory, Study 1 focuses on support for discrimination of immigrant groups in general. The findings indicate that this support is more widespread in times of high levels of immigration, when the unemployment level has recently risen strongly, and among cohorts that grew to maturity in times of large immigration waves or high unemployment rates. Studies 2 and 3 focus on changing feelings toward different ethnic out‐groups in an ideological context (2001–2004) marked by a shift from multiculturalism toward assimilation. Study 2 showed that the shift toward assimilation negatively affected Dutch participants' feelings toward Islamic outgroups, but not to other minority groups. Study 3 used an experimental design, and the results showed that ethnic attitudes are more negative in an assimilation compared to a multicultural context. It is concluded that the structural and ideological social context is important for understanding people's changing reactions

Assimilation (phonology · Context (archaeology · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Ethnic group · Feeling · Geography · Ideology · Immigration · Multiculturalism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Unemployment · Gender Studies · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Psychology · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology

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