The Unsettled Land
Eight years ago, before the attacks of 9/11, the debate about immigration and integration in the Netherlands was brought into sharp focus by a disturbing article by Paul Scheffer. Silently, and out of sight of policymakers, he wrote, an ethnic underclass has grown up that is becoming alienated from society with alarming speed. Scheffer’s analysis came as a bombshell, not least because he is a highly respected public intellectual with a social-democratic background.
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Original title
Het land van aankomst
Author
Paul Scheffer
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Scheffer’s cordial and carefully considered appeal for a ‘we’ based on the acknowledgement of difference and alienation deserves serious attention and discussion.
NRC Handelsblad
Essential reading for anyone closely or even remotely involved with immigration issues. The best work about migration ever written in the Low Countries.
De Morgen
Paul Scheffer
Paul Scheffer worked as correspondent in Paris and Warsaw before becoming a staff writer for NRC Handelsblad.