Hanging around in suburbia. Understanding normalizing power in professional relationships with Dutch Caribbean migrants

Hanging around in suburbia. Understanding normalizing power in professional relationships with Dutch Caribbean migrants. Professional interventions are rarely successful when used to “normalize” the behaviour of a disruptive group of Dutch-Caribbean migrants. Surprisingly a large number of professionals have not succeeded in assimilating a relatively small group of problematic Dutch-Caribbean migrants. Foucault developed a means of analysing power mechanisms, which is essential to understanding how non-conformist groups are turned into “normal” subjects. If, following Foucault, we conceive of... Mehr ...