Nederlanders and buitenlanders:A sociolinguistic-ethnographic study of ethnic categorization among secondary school pupils

The dissertation ‘Nederlanders and buitenlanders’ [‘Dutch people and foreigners'] is about the categorisation of oneself as 'Dutch', 'foreigner', 'Turk', and/or 'Moroccan'. In a lot of social and scientific discourse in the Netherlands, it is stated that anyone who calls themselves, for example, 'Moroccan', has an emotional connection with Morocco, is not well integrated, or that it is proof of a certain socio-cultural or religious orientation. This dissertation, based on nine months of ethnographic fieldwork with students from a third- and fourth-year pre-vocational secondary school (VMBO) in... Mehr ...