Maurice Crul

Peter Scholten

Paul van de Laar

This open access book discusses Rotterdam as clear example of a superdiverse city that is only reluctantly coming to terms with this new reality. Rotterdam, as is true for many post-industrial cities, has seen a considerable backlash against migration and diversity: the populist party Leefbaar Rotterdam of the late Pim Fortuyn is already for many years the largest party in the city. At the same time Rotterdam has become a majority minority city where the people of Dutch descent have become a numerical minority themselves. The book explores how Rotterdam is coming to terms with superdiversity, by an analysis of its migration history of the city, the composition of the migrant population and the Dutch working class population, local politics and by a comparison with Amsterdam and other cities. As such it contributes to a better understanding not just of how and why super-diverse cities emerge but also how and why the reaction to a super-diverse reality can be so different. By focusing on different aspects of superdiversity, coming from different angles and various disciplinary backgrounds, this book will be of interest to students and scholars in migration, policy sciences, urban studies and urban sociology, as well as policymakers and the broader public.

The Case of Rotterdam

Coming to Terms with Superdiversity

Ching Lin Pang

Flip Lindo

Culture, Structure and Beyond

John Mollenkopf

A seismic population shift is taking place as many formerly racially homogeneous cities in the West attract a diverse influx of newcomers seeking economic and social advancement. In The Changing Face of World Cities, a distinguished group of immigration experts presents the first systematic, data-based comparison of the lives of young adult children of immigrants growing up in seventeen big cities of Western Europe and the United States. Drawing on a comprehensive set of surveys, this important book brings together new evidence about the international immigrant experience and provides far-reaching lessons for devising more effective public policies. The Changing Face of World Cities pairs European and American researchers to explore how youths of immigrant origin negotiate educational systems, labor markets, gender, neighborhoods, citizenship, and identity on both sides of the Atlantic. Maurice Crul and his co-authors compare the educational trajectories of second-generation Mexicans in Los Angeles with second-generation Turks in Western European cities. In the United States, uneven school quality in disadvantaged immigrant neighborhoods and the high cost of college are the main barriers to educational advancement, while in some European countries, rigid early selection sorts many students off the college track and into dead-end jobs. Liza Reisel, Laurence Lessard-Phillips, and Phil Kasinitz find that while more young members of the second generation are employed in the United States than in Europe, they are also likely to hold low-paying jobs that barely life them out of poverty. In Europe, where immigrant youth suffer from higher unemployment, the embattled European welfare system still yields them a higher standard of living than many of their American counterparts. Turning to issues of identity and belonging, Jens Schneider, Leo Chávez, Louis DeSipio, and Mary Waters find that it is far easier for the children of Dominican or Mexican immigrants to identify as American, in part because the United States takes hyphenated identities for granted. In Europe, religious bias against Islam makes it hard for young people of Turkish origin to identify strongly as German, French, or Swedish. Editors Maurice Crul and John Mollenkopf conclude that despite the barriers these youngsters encounter on both continents, they are making real progress relative to their parents and are beginning to close the gap with the native-born. The Changing Face of World Cities goes well beyong existing immigration literature focused on the United States experience to show that national policies on each side of the Atlantic can be enriched by lessons from the other. The Changing Face of World Cities will be vital reading for anyone interested in the young people who will shape the future of our increasingly interconnected global economy.

Young Adult Children of Immigrants in Europe and the United States

The Changing Face of World Cities

Liesbeth Heering

Annotation. The Dutch second generation of Turkish and Moroccan origin is coming of age and making a transition from education to the labour market. This first publication of the TIES Project (Towards the Integration of the European Second Generation) studies the social situation and views of this ethnic group, drawing on the research carried out in Amsterdam and Rotterdam in 2006-07 among the Dutch-born children of immigrants from Turkey and Morocco and a comparison group of young people (age 18-35) whose parents were born in the Netherlands. This title can be previewed in Google Books - http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN9789089640611. This title is available in the OAPEN Library - http://www.oapen.org.

The TIES Study in the Netherlands

The Position of the Turkish and Moroccan Second Generation in Amsterdam and Rotterdam

Jens Schneider

Frans Lelie

In den europäischen Städten vollzieht sich eine demographische Revolution. In Amsterdam, London und Brüssel ist es schon so weit, in Deutschland werden Frankfurt, Augsburg und Stuttgart als erste folgen: Es gibt in ihnen keine "Mehrheitsgesellschaft" mehr. Gleichzeitig werden klare ethnische Zuordnungen immer schwieriger, Mehrdeutigkeiten und Mehrfach-Identitäten immer wichtiger. Der englische Fachbegriff dafür: 'Superdiversity'.0Wir haben den Übergang zur "Einwanderungsgesellschaft" zwar verbal, aber nicht mental vollzogen, dabei ist dies von zentraler Bedeutung: Was muss gegeben sein, damit die superdiverse Stadt als Gemeinwesen funktioniert und ein Fundament hat, das gleichberechtigte Teilhabe und Freiheit ermöglicht? Was ist die gemeinsame Basis in einer Stadt, die nur aus Minderheiten besteht?0Ausgehend von der europäischen TIES-Studie zeigen die Autoren, dass wir genau jetzt an einer wichtigen Weggabelung stehen: Nur die Städte, die allen ihren Talenten einen gleichberechtigten Zugang zu Bildung, Jobs und Zugehörigkeit bieten, werden dabei erfolgreich sein.0Die Protagonisten des Gelingens sind diejenigen jungen Leute, die die neue urbane Wirklichkeit bereits leben. Die Generation Mix ist mehrsprachig und interkulturell, sie pflegt das kulturelle Erbe der Eltern und kreiert gleichzeitig die neue Stadtkultur.

Die superdiverse Zukunft unserer Städte und was wir daraus machen

generation mix

Deze internationale vergelijkende studie biedt voorwaarden voor een positief teokomstscenario met betrekking tot het integratiedebat.

een nieuwe visie op integratie

Superdiversiteit

Maurice Crul

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