3.

The Netherlands is an
immigration country
Pluralist society

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Programme
• Introduction
• Learning goals
• Questions from class about chapter 3
• Clip Migration in historic perspective
• Clip Dutch Empire: Dutch around the globe
• Work sheet
Question

•Who in this class has a (grand)parent

that is or has been a migrant? What was
his/her reason to migrate?
Recent numbers
Learning goals
• You can explain what is meant with the concepts ‘allochtoon’ and
‘autochtoon’ and can give arguments for and against the use of those
concepts;
• You can describe which groups came to the Netherlands after the
Second World War and their motives to come here;
• You can describe the Dutch policy concerning asylum seekers, and
people who want to come to our country because of family formation
and family reunification.
Migration in (pre)historical perspective

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJdT6QcSbQ0
Dutch Empire: Dutch trade, conquest &
plunder around the world

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlRubVEhSA
Work sheet
What: Assignment 11 and 12
How: In pairs
Time: 15 minutes
Resources: Course book and the teacher will walk around
Result: We will discuss 12b in whole class
Programme 08-03-2018
• Introduction (2 minutes)
• Learning goals (1 minute)
• Questions from class about chapter 3 (4 minutes)
• Work sheet 12B (3 minutes)
• Allochtoon a useful word? (3 minutes)
• Refugees & ‘opvang in de eigen regio’ (20 minutes)
• Relevant info about refugees (10 minutes)
Learning goals
• You can explain what is meant with the concepts ‘allochtoon’ and
‘autochtoon’ and can give arguments for and against the use of those
concepts;
• You can describe which groups came to the Netherlands after the
Second World War and their motives to come here;
• You can describe the Dutch policy concerning asylum seekers, and
people who want to come to our country because of family formation
and family reunification.
Definitions ‘Allochtoon’
• “If a person has at least one of his/her parents who was born in
another country”(Getting to know Dutch society, page 159)
(Is Dutch East Indies considered abroad? And
Surinam before 1975?)

An older definition of ‘allochtoon’:

• If some or at least one of his/her parents is born abroad, or one of
his/her grandparents and he/she feels acquainted with that country
(Wetenschappelijke Raad voor het Regeringsbeleid, 1989
Allochtonenbeleid)
Main immigrant groups 20th century in NL
• People from former colonies
• Immigrant workers
• Families from immigrant workers
• Asylum seekers
• EU citizens
Migrationmap.net (2007)
About the source (what happened since 2007?)

• Work in small groups of 3 or 4.

• You’ve got 15 minutes to work on this assignment.
• Select a country and write down to where en from where people are
migrating and their motives are.
• Compare that country with the Netherlands and write down two
important differences and similarities.
Refugees and ‘opvang in eigen regio’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KkShYqEclo (1.44)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX0Db8L6Jso (3.21)

https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews/videos/1875954585995662/
(2.28)
10 minutes in total