Saskia Bonjour|Jan Willem Duyvendak
The “migrant with poor prospects”: racialized intersections of class and culture in Dutch civic integration debates
University of Amsterdam|University of Amsterdam
recent trend towards selective immigration policies based racialization certain categories migrants irretrievably unassimilable others europe trend materialized largely application integration requirements immigration foreigners socalled civic integration turn based analysis parliamentary debates civic integration policies netherlands paper asks migrants considered likely unlikely integrate based presumed characteristics find dutch civic integration policies aim barring migrants poor prospects sharp contrast long history dutch social policies politicians deny state responsibility migrants emancipation based discursive racialization migrants unassimilable class hitherto largely ignored literature migration politics belonging show class intersecting culture gender key process racialization