The Success of the Civilization Offensive: Societal Adaptation of Reformed Boys in the Early Twentieth Century in the Netherlands

Bijleveld, Catrien; Poppel, F.W.A. van

doi:10.1353/jsh.2011.0051

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“…Boarding schools, mandatory educational training, family coaches, and re‐education programmes and camps are presented as appropriate responses to re‐educate “Moroccan” youngsters and families into productive and responsible citizens. This strongly resembles the early twentieth century civilization offensive in the Netherlands, intended to re‐educate men from social economically disadvantaged backgrounds to become “useful forces of society” (Bijleveld and Van Poppel, ; 1174). Yet, expectations that “Moroccan youngsters” can overcome their marginal position and move upward appear to be largely pessimistic.…”

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“Moroccan youngsters”: category politics in the Netherlands

Roggeband

Haar

2017

International Migration

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The article analyses the categorization of “Moroccan youngsters” as a problem group in the Netherlands. Since the 1990s Dutch‐Moroccan boys and young men are set apart as a problematic group that presents a social and security threat and an emblem of the failure of multicultural society. We analyse the intersectional “category politics” of Dutch politicians to situate Moroccan‐Dutch youngsters as problematic outsiders. Our analysis makes clear how national origin, culture, class and gender intersect in the categorization of “Moroccan youngsters” constituting a national‐cultural category, which is also defined in terms of a disadvantaged socio‐economic position. This categorization has important implications for policy arrangements and proposed measures. Existing schooling and training measures are seen as inadequate to end incessant intergenerational patterns of dependence and poverty. Intervention in the sphere of the family and parenting are deemed necessary to transform “Moroccan youngsters” into “good citizens.”

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Section: The Policy Implications Of Category Politicsmentioning

confidence: 99%