The Immigrant Organising Process : Turkish Organisations in Amsterdam and Berlin and Surinamese Organisations in Amsterdam, 1960-2000

Vermeulen, Floris

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“…As Germany was not officially considered to be a 'country of immigration' it was not possible to formulate any official integration policy. However, as the number of immigrants increased rapidly (mainly Turkish immigrants and asylum seekers from all over the world) it is fair to say that immigration has been a highly politicized topic in Berlin, especially during the 1980s (Vermeulen 2006). These political discussions were not transformed into policies, as the national level prevented this.…”

Section: Local Integration Policy In Berlinmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…To illustrate, the multicultural policy meant that different minority target groups became eligible for direct subsidies to establish and develop their own ethnic organizations. During the nineties, Amsterdam politicians felt increasing discontent regarding the multicultural ideals and the results of the policy (Vermeulen 2006;. By 1999, local authorities officially changed their intentions towards immigrants from a multicultural policy to a diversity policy.…”

Section: Local Integration Policies In Amsterdammentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Local integration policy in Amsterdam has been characterized as multicultural (Vermeulen 2006;. Since the beginning, in the early eighties, the Amsterdam authorities officially classified the main immigrant groups as 'minority target groups' whose socio-economic position in Dutch society was in need of improvement.…”

Section: Local Integration Policies In Amsterdammentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, these organizations can be seen as illustrative examples of different organizational strategies to target unemployment among immigrant youth, because they are among the more important and visible projects, in terms of participants and budget, and because they have received substantial state subsidies to set up these projects. In addition, we build on extensive research on immigrant organizations in Amsterdam and Berlin (Vermeulen 2006;Vermeulen & Berger 2008), in which we described and analyzed the complete population of immigrant organizations in both cities, thus enabling us to identify the most important cases. Finally, we will analyze the examples in this chapter within the context of the local integration policies.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this book may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise) without the written permission of both the copyright owners and the authors of the book. Our appreciation goes to all the contributors to this volume, not only for their research efforts and their commitment to this project, but also for their professional attitude in dealing with editorial guidelines and comments. We are especially grateful to John Mollenkopf, who was willing to write a thoughtful commentary chapter to this volume that, moreover, had to be written in a short time span -between the completion of the various chapters and the start of the production process of this book. John Mollenkopf is not only an internationally acknowledged expert on urban issues, he is also very much acquainted -both as a scholar and a regular visitor -with the Dutch urban context.During the preparation of this book, we were able to count on the valuable support of a number of people at Nicis Institute. Ylva Hendriks, program officer of STIP, has provided valuable assistance in preparing the index and guarding the production process during the summertime. We are also grateful to Dick Meuldijk, who was able to reconcile the editors' wishes with his expert knowledge in producing the map to the introduction of this book, and to Koos van Dijken for providing some statistical information. Finally, we owe a special debt to a number of persons affiliated with Amsterdam University Press. Comments made by its editorial board, in addition to three referees, have definitely improved the book and its chapters. Erik van Aert and Jaap Wagenaar of Amsterdam University Press cannot be thanked enough for supporting this project and for guiding the manuscript through the publication process so patiently and efficiently. This book presents the results of the most recent research on urban topics in the Netherlands. Why would those results be of interest for a wider and also non-Dutch audience? We think for several reasons.In the first place, the Netherlands' struggle with many urban problems might be instructive for the urban problems other countries face as well (or will have to confront in the near future). Huge transformations that have manifested themselves in the Netherlands affect many more countries. The Dutch economy has become one of the most open (and in times of economic crisis: most vulnerable) and service-oriented of the world. Moreover, the Dutch population has changed dramatically: with one million Muslims and about one million other migrants (out of sixteen million inhabitants), the Netherlands has de facto become an immigration society, like many other West-European countries experiencing similar changes in the past decades. Compared to the old settler societies (the US, Canada, and Australia), the new immigrant countries struggle with problems they had n...

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Section: Local Integration Policy In Berlinmentioning

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Section: Local Integration Policies In Amsterdammentioning

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Section: Local Integration Policies In Amsterdammentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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“…Not surprisingly, gender goes unnoticed in empirical studies on diaspora and transnational migrant politics (Brand, 2006;Esman, 2009;Ögelman, 2003;Østergaard-Nielsen, 2003;Shain, 1999;Sheffer, 2003; for an exception see Aliefendioğlu, 2004). Confirming this pattern, gender is not considered in studies on migrants' political participation and their organizational networks in the receiving country (Schrover & Vermeulen, 2005;Van Heelsum, 2002;Vermeulen, 2006;Yurdakul, 2009). …”

Section: Gender: a Lacuna Of Diaspora Transnational And Migrant Polimentioning

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The population ecology of social movements takes as its starting point theories of organizational evolution. First elaborated by Hannan and Freeman (1977, 1989), what came to be known as organizational ecology provides a research paradigm for scholars interested in understanding how diversity in organizational forms develops and changes over time. Drawing on evolutionary models, organizational ecologists focus on competition and environmental selection as the central mechanisms driving the creation and institutionalization of new organizational forms. In addition to competition over scarce resources, processes of legitimation are also important in explaining how new organizational models become established. A central theoretical principle is that the development of organizational populations is “density‐dependent”: early on, increases in the number, or density, of successful organizations improve the legitimacy of the forms and provide a taemplate for action that creates resources and incentives for organizational formation; as the population expands, however, competitive pressures drive down the founding rate and increase the failure rate of existing groups.

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The Immigrant Organising Process : Turkish Organisations in Amsterdam and Berlin and Surinamese Organisations in Amsterdam, 1960-2000

Cited by 99 publications

References 43 publications

City in Sight: Dutch Dealings with Urban Change

City in Sight: Dutch Dealings with Urban Change

Women in Transnational Migrant Activism: Supporting Social Justice Claims of Homeland Political Organizations

Population Ecology and Social Movements

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