No Polarisation in Dutch Cities? Inequality in a Corporatist Country

Burgers, Jack

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“…A third factor which may give rise to openings for informal economic activities, is the growing entrepreneurship among the immigrant population of the large cities (Light and Rosenstein 1995). Within the Dutch cities, including Rotterdam, the process of economic restructuring has also manifested itself clearly (Burgers 1996b, Kloosterman 1996, suggesting that opportunities for illegal immigrants could be found in the Dutch cities. These opportunities can be expected wherever employers compete on the basis of price, and wherever regulations (such as the legal minimum wage or tax regulations) have restricted the demand for legal labour.…”

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Looking for Loopholes : Processes of Incorporation of Illegal Immigrants in the Netherlands

Leun¹

2003

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Looking for Loopholes : Processes of Incorporation of Illegal Immigrants in the Netherlands

Leun¹

2003

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“…The problem in many modern cities is that the influx of migrants has taken place in a very short time period, thus leaving insufficient possibilities for adjustment behaviour on both the labour and the housing market (cf. Burgers 1996). But the large critical mass of the ethnic group may also be a 'blessing in disguise', as this may create a sufficiently large pool of opportunities for ethnic enterprises focusing on the specific needs of a large proportion of the urban population (Simon 1989).…”

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In Search of Ethnic Entrepreneurship Opportunities in the City: A Comparative Policy Study

Delft¹,

Gorter²,

Nijkamp³

2000

Environ Plann C Gov Policy

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The rapidly rising inflow of foreign migrants confronts policy-makers with many socio-economic problems. The negative externalities of uncontrolled immigration are well known and often hard to cope with. In recent years we have seen many policy initiatives based on self-reliance principles for ethnic groups. Against this background ethnic entrepreneurship has become a popular strategy, as it stimulates and encourages migrants to look after themselves with a limited support of the government. Such a policy becomes an increasingly important endeavour in many large cities. Besides the conventional educational support and training programmes, such a strategy would need to implement policy strategies aiming at self-employment. An emphasis on ethnic entrepreneurship seeks to exploit the economic potential and opportunities instead of focusing on the problems minorities encounter when entering the labour market. In ethnic entrepreneurship, this potential can be utilised in a creative way, especially if well-organised projects and initiatives are set up.In this paper, various assistance programmes and urban policies in several European cities aiming at favouring ethnic entrepreneurship will be systematically compared with the aim to draw lessons for effective labour market policies. The methodological approach will employ a systematic information base concerning selfemployment strategies in the cities under investigation. A newly developed comparative statistical method for categorical information, viz. rough set analysis, will be used in order to identify critical success factors. The results suggest that utilisation of social networks is most helpful to enhance self-employment among ethnic minorities. Finally, the paper offers some lessons for the establishment of socio-cultural and ethnic networks, for strategies for improving training and education and for improvement of access to facilities and financial resources. 1 Ethnic Entrepreneurship in a Multi-cultural SocietyModern societies are moving away from a stable social and established structure toward a state of fluidity in which mobility of people (commuters, migrants) tends to become a visual landmark. The action radius of spatial mobility is steadily increasing from the local or regional scale to national and global levels (Sassen 1991;Scott 1990). The current globalisation trend, which has only recently started, will mean an even more diffuse pattern of community life, in which complex network configurations seem to play a dominant role. It seems also plausible that uniformity in society will increasingly be replaced by diversity, so that future societies will be characterised by a 'multi-colour' composition with a great cultural, social, ethnic and religious variety (cf. Cross 1992;Esping-Andersen 1993;Massey and Denton 1993;Storper 1997).The above mentioned dynamics manifests itself in particular in cross-border migration (see Nijkamp and Spiess 1994;Gorter et al 1998). It should be recognised however, that international migration as such is not a ne...

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“…The application of new technologies in production and service activities, and the restructuring of capitalism, are visible in the economic, political, social and culture spheres (Vresk 2002). Changes at the global level are also refl ected at the local level, particularly in the socio-economic structure of populations, and more and more research (Castells 1989;Burgers 1996;Sassen 2001;Stouten 2002) is confi rming that social polarization is occurring in the cities of developed market economies.…”

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“…Sassen emphasizes three essential elements which contribute to polarization: growth of service activities and declining production activities (tertiarization), growth of highsalary jobs which increase demand for lower-paid jobs, and computerization of production activities (Sassen 2001). Numerous research worldwide has both confi rmed and accented the complexity of this phenomenon (van Kempen 1994;Woodward 1995;Bruegel 1996;Burgers 1996;Clark & McNicholas 1996).…”

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The Socio-Spatial Structure of a City: the Example of Zagreb

Prelogović¹

2004

Hrv. geogr. glas.

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This work provides a summarized overview of select aspects, concepts and results of foreign and Croatian research into the socio-spatial structure of a city. The status of the sociospatial structure of Zagreb has been determined through an analysis of statistical indicators of the socio-economic status of its population. The results show similarities between the socio-spatial structure of Zagreb and other postsocialist cities. The spatial pattern from the pre-transition period has been retained, and it is refl ected in the declining socio-economic status of the population from the center to the peripheral sections of the city.Key words: Zagreb, socio-spatial structure, postsocialist city, transition, educational structure, salaries, unemployment Socijalno-prostorna struktura grada: primjer Zagreba U radu su sažeto prikazani izabrani aspekti, koncepti i rezultati stranih i domaćih istraživanja socijalno-prostorne strukture grada. Analizom odabranih statističkih pokazatelja socijalno-ekonomskog statusa stanovništva utvrđeno je stanje socijalno-prostorne strukture Zagreba. Rezultati pokazuju sličnosti u socijalno-prostornoj strukturi Zagreba i drugih postsocijalističkih gradova. Prostorni obrazac iz predtranzicijskog razdoblja je zadržan, a očituje se u smanjuje socijalno-ekonomskog statusa stanovništva od središnjih prema rubnim dijelovima grada.

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No Polarisation in Dutch Cities? Inequality in a Corporatist Country

Cited by 80 publications

References 3 publications

Looking for Loopholes : Processes of Incorporation of Illegal Immigrants in the Netherlands

Looking for Loopholes : Processes of Incorporation of Illegal Immigrants in the Netherlands

In Search of Ethnic Entrepreneurship Opportunities in the City: A Comparative Policy Study

The Socio-Spatial Structure of a City: the Example of Zagreb

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