When Ways of Life Collide: Multiculturalism and Its Discontents in the Netherlands - Couverture souple

Sniderman, Paul M.; Hagendoorn, Louk

 
9780691141015: When Ways of Life Collide: Multiculturalism and Its Discontents in the Netherlands
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0691141010 ISBN 13 : 9780691141015
Editeur : Princeton University Press, 2009

Synopsis

In 2004, Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh was brutally murdered on a busy Amsterdam street. His killer was Mohammed Bouyeri, a twenty-six-year-old Dutch Moroccan offended by van Gogh's controversial film about Muslim suppression of women. The Dutch government had funded separate schools, housing projects, broadcast media, and community organizations for Muslim immigrants, all under the umbrella of multiculturalism. But the reality of terrorism and radicalization of Muslim immigrants has shattered that dream.

In this arresting book, Paul Sniderman and Louk Hagendoorn demonstrate that there are deep conflicts of values in the Netherlands. In the eyes of the Dutch, for example, Muslims oppress women, treating them as inferior to men. In the eyes of Muslim immigrants, Western Europeans deny women the respect they deserve. Western Europe has become a cultural conflict zone. Two ways of life are colliding.

Sniderman and Hagendoorn show how identity politics contributed to this crisis. The very policies meant to persuade majority and minority that they are part of the same society strengthened their view that they belong to different societies. At the deepest level, the authors' findings suggest, the issue that government and citizens need to be concerned about is not a conflict of values but a clash of fundamental loyalties.

Les informations fournies dans la section « Synopsis » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

À propos de l?auteur

Paul M. Sniderman is Fairleigh S. Dickinson Jr., Professor of Public Policy at Stanford University. Louk Hagendoorn is Professor of Social Science at Utrecht University.

Les informations fournies dans la section « A propos du livre » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

Éditeur
Princeton University Press
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0691141010
ISBN 13 
9780691141015
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
176
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

Friedensallee 273
Hamburg
22763
Allemagne

Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9780691129068: When Ways of Life Collide: Multiculturalism & Its Discontents in the Netherlands

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0691129061 ISBN 13 :  9780691129068
Editeur : Princeton University Press, 2007
Couverture rigide