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- Title
'Minority Representatives' in the Netherlands: Supporting, Silencing or Suppressing?
- Authors
Aydemir, Nermin; Vliegenthart, Rens
- Abstract
This article focuses on how often and in what ways 'minority representatives' address cultural and/or religious rights and freedoms by analysing parliamentary questions between 2002 and 2012. The research first analysed to what extent, if any, Member of Parliaments of minority origin highlight minority-related issues in their parliamentary questions. Thereafter, it analysed the content of those questions in more detail. Unlike much previous research, we did not take a favourable content for granted. The idea of 'suppressive representation' was introduced to describe those cases in which 'minority representatives' were restrictive towards cultural and/or religious freedoms of 'immigrant minorities'. Representation patterns show differences across group- and individual-level identities.
- Subjects
POLITICAL participation of minorities; DUTCH politics &; government; CONTENT analysis; REPRESENTATIVE government; LEGISLATIVE bodies
- Publication
Parliamentary Affairs, 2016, Vol 69, Issue 1, p73
- ISSN
0031-2290
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/pa/gsv009