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- Title
“Moroccan youngsters”: category politics in the Netherlands.
- Authors
Roggeband, Conny; van der Haar, Marleen
- Abstract
Abstract: The article analyses the categorization of “Moroccan youngsters” as a problem group in the Netherlands. Since the 1990s Dutch‐Moroccan boys and young men are set apart as a problematic group that presents a social and security threat and an emblem of the failure of multicultural society. We analyse the intersectional “category politics” of Dutch politicians to situate Moroccan‐Dutch youngsters as problematic outsiders. Our analysis makes clear how national origin, culture, class and gender intersect in the categorization of “Moroccan youngsters” constituting a national‐cultural category, which is also defined in terms of a disadvantaged socio‐economic position. This categorization has important implications for policy arrangements and proposed measures. Existing schooling and training measures are seen as inadequate to end incessant intergenerational patterns of dependence and poverty. Intervention in the sphere of the family and parenting are deemed necessary to transform “Moroccan youngsters” into “good citizens.”
- Subjects
NETHERLANDS; PROBLEM youth; MOROCCANS; MULTICULTURALISM; RACE &; social status; POVERTY; SOCIAL history
- Publication
International Migration, 2018, Vol 56, Issue 4, p79
- ISSN
0020-7985
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/imig.12419