Asylum in the Netherlands: A Hazy Shade of Purple

Selm, J. van

doi:10.1093/jrs/13.1.74

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“…In the late 1980s and early 1990s there was a sharp rise in the number of asylum seekers who came to the Netherlands, due to war, poverty, and political conflicts. This resulted in strong differences in the amount of time refugees (of different cohorts) stayed in a reception center (Van Selm, 2000). Before acquiring a formal refugee status, asylum seekers can have spent months or even several years in “application centers,”“asylum seeker centers,” and “research and reception centers.” Awaiting their official refugee status as an asylum seeker, the refugees are “kept” in relative isolation from the native Dutch population and have only a very limited right to work (Van Selm, 2000).…”

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“…Before acquiring a formal refugee status, asylum seekers can have spent months or even several years in ''application centers,'' ''asylum seeker centers,'' and ''research and reception centers.'' Awaiting their official refugee status as an asylum seeker, the refugees are ''kept'' in relative isolation from the native Dutch population and have only a very limited right to work (Van Selm, 2000). Similar admission policies to those in the Netherlands have been implemented in other European countries as well.…”

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The Employment Experience of Refugees in the Netherlands

Vroome

Tubergen

2010

International Migration Review

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This study focuses on the economically disadvantaged position of refugees. We use survey data of refugees from Somalia, Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq, and the former Yugoslavia in the Netherlands, to analyze refugees’ odds of employment and their occupational status. In line with human capital and social capital theory, we find that host country specific education, work experience, language proficiency, and contacts with natives are positively related to the chances of employment and occupational status. The study shows that health problems, integration courses, and the time spent in refugee reception centers form important additional explanations of the economic integration of refugees.

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Section: Admission and Integration Policiesmentioning

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The Employment Experience of Refugees in the Netherlands

Vroome

Tubergen

2010

International Migration Review

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“…While onshore applications for refugee status are being processed, some refugees are granted bridging visas and allowed to live in the wider community but with limited or no work rights (Van Selm 2000;Fleay & Hartley 2015). On one hand, bridging and temporary visas have hampered humanitarian migrants' employment prospects (Marston 2004) and caused distress and fear particularly in regard to the uncertainty about their refugee claims in Australia (Fleay et al 2013;Fleay & Hartley 2015;Crawford et al 2016).…”

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Labour Force Participation and Employment of Humanitarian Migrants: Evidence from the Building a New Life in Australia Longitudinal Data

2017

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractThis study uses the longitudinal data from the Building a New Life in Australia survey to examine the relationships between human capital and labour market participation and employment status among recently arrived/approved humanitarian migrants. It includes attention to the heterogeneity of labour force participation and employment status across genders and also migration pathways. We find that the likelihood of participating in the labour force is higher for those who had preimmigration paid job experience, completed study/job training and have job searching knowledge/skills in Australia and possess higher proficiency in spoken English. We find that the chance of getting a paid job is negatively related to having better pre-immigration education, but it is positively related to having unpaid work experience and job searching skills in Australia, and better health.

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“…This is particularly important as the type of neighborhood in which refugees live is uniquely subject to government policies, such as spatial dispersal policies aimed at reducing the concentration of refugees in particular urban areas. Several north-European countries have implemented spatial dispersal policies for refugees and asylum seekers, for example: Sweden, from 1985 to 1994 (Åslund & Rooth, 2007); and currently Denmark, since 1986 (Azlor, Damm, & Schultz-Nielsen, 2020); the Netherlands, since 1987 (Selm, 2000); Finland, since 1988 (Andersson et al, 2010); Switzerland, since 1988 (Couttenier, Petrencu, Rohner, & Thoenig, 2019); Germany, since 1991 (Bahar, Hauptmann, Özgüzel, & Rapoport, 2024), Norway, since 1994 (Bratsberg, Ferwerda, Finseraas, & Kotsadam, 2021); Ireland, since 2000 (Proietti & Veneri, 2021); and the UK, since 2000 (Bell, Fasani, & Machin, 2013). Given that these policies directly influence where refugees live, the characteristics of these neighborhoods are therefore potentially modifiable risk factors over which we can have some control.…”

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Neighborhood social composition and refugee mental health – quasi-experimental evidence of associations from a Danish population register study

Schofield,

Jamil de Montgomery,

Damm

et al. 2024

Psychol. Med.

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Background Refugees are at an elevated risk of some mental disorders with studies highlighting the contributing role of post-migration factors. Studies of migrant groups show neighborhood social composition, such as ethnic density, to be important. This is the first longitudinal study to examine this question for refugees and uses a novel quasi-experimental design. Methods We followed a cohort of 44 033 refugees from being first assigned housing under the Danish dispersal policy, operating from 1986 to 1998, until 2019. This comprised, in effect, a natural experiment whereby the influence of assigned neighborhood could be determined independently of endogenous factors. We examined three aspects of neighborhood social composition: proportion of co-nationals, refugees, and first-generation migrants; and subsequent incidence of different mental disorders. Results Refugees assigned to neighborhoods with fewer co-nationals (lowest v. highest quartile) were more likely to receive a subsequent diagnosis of non-affective psychosis, incident rate ratio (IRR) 1.25 (95% confidence interval (CI) 1.06–1.48), and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), IRR 1.21 (95% CI I.05–1.39). A comparable but smaller effect was observed for mood disorders but none observed for stress disorders overall. Neighborhood proportion of refugees was less clearly associated with subsequent mental disorders other than non-affective psychosis, IRR 1.24 (95% CI 1.03–1.50). We found no statistically significant associations with proportion of migrants. Conclusions For refugees, living in a neighborhood with a lower proportion of co-nationals is related to subsequent increased risk of diagnosed mental disorders particularly non-affective psychosis and PTSD.

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Asylum in the Netherlands: A Hazy Shade of Purple

Cited by 10 publications

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The Employment Experience of Refugees in the Netherlands

The Employment Experience of Refugees in the Netherlands

Labour Force Participation and Employment of Humanitarian Migrants: Evidence from the Building a New Life in Australia Longitudinal Data

Neighborhood social composition and refugee mental health – quasi-experimental evidence of associations from a Danish population register study

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