Assimilation of Ethnic-Religious Minorities in the Netherlands:A Historical-Sociological Analysis of pre-WWII Jews and contemporary Muslims

This article examines what assimilation trajectories were manifest amongst present-day Mediterranean Muslims and pre-WWII Jews in Dutch society. Alba and Nee conceptualized assimilation in terms of processes of spanning and altering group boundaries, distinguishing between boundary crossing, blurring and shifting. This study carves out to what extent assimilation processes like boundary crossing, shifting and blurring had taken place for those two non-Christian minority groups in Dutch society. This research is based on findings of recent (quantitative) empirical research into the assimilation... Mehr ...