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Intro -- Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: New York and Amsterdam: Immigration and the New Urban Landscape -- Part I: How has the Immigrant Past Shaped the Immigrant Present in New York City and Amsterdam? -- 1. Immigration History and the Remaking of New York -- 2. To Amsterdam: Migrations Past and Present -- Part II: What Difference Does the Urban Economy Make to Immigrant Incorporation? -- 3. Immigrants in New York City's Economy: A Portrait in Full Living Color -- 4. From Amsterdamned to I Amsterdam: The Amsterdam Economy and Its Impact on the Labor Market Position of Migrants, 1980-2010 -- Part III: Is Islam in Amsterdam Like Race in New York City? -- 5. Nativism, Racism, and Immigration in New York City -- 6. Governing through Religion in Amsterdam: The Stigmatization of Ethnic Cultures and the Uses of Islam -- Part IV: How are Immigrants Entering the Precincts of Power in New York City and Amsterdam? -- 7. The Rise of Immigrant Influence in New York City Politics -- 8. Immigrant Political Engagement and Incorporation in Amsterdam -- Part V: How are the Children of Immigrants Shaped by and also Changing New York City's and Amsterdam's Cultural Life? -- 9. Immigrants, the Arts, and the "Second-Generation Advantage" in New York -- 10. Immigrant Youths' Contribution to Urban Culture in Amsterdam -- About the Contributors -- Index.

"City in Sight" presents recent scholarship on the various issues facing today's Dutch metropolitan areas, including immigration and the growing diversity among the urban population, urban restructuring and neighborhood renewal, shifts in urban governance, and the promotion of active citizenship. With its wealth of information and up-to-date research, this text will appeal to scholars of urban politics and social history from all over the globe

Abstract. We present a number of concepts and hypotheses concerning the impact of the political opportunity structure on the mobilisation pattern of new social movements in Western Europe. The hypotheses refer to the general level of mobilisation in a given country, the general forms and strategies of action employed, the system level at which mobilisation is typically oriented and the development of the level of mobilisation across time. The hypotheses are tested in a comparative analysis of France, Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland. The analysis reveals country‐specific variations in the mobilisation patterns of new social movements, which are largely in line with the theoretical expectations and serve to confirm the relevance of the political process approach for the study of social movements.

In many countries in north‐western Europe, the welfare state is changing, and governments expect a great deal of informal care. In the Netherlands, citizens are also increasingly expected to rely on informal instead of professional care. In this study, we aim to determine to what extent Dutch care‐dependent people want to rely on social network members and what reasons they raise for accepting or refusing informal care. To answer this question, we observed 65 so‐called 'kitchen table talks', in which social workers assess citizens' care needs and examine to what extent relatives, friends and/or neighbours can provide help and care. We also interviewed 50 professionals and 30 people in need of care. Our findings show that a great deal of informal care is already given (in 46 out of 65 cases), especially between people who have a close emotional bond. For this reason, people in need of care often find it difficult to ask their family members, friends or neighbours for extra assistance. People are afraid to overburden their family members, friends or neighbours. Another reason people in need of care raise against informal care is that they feel ashamed of becoming dependent. Although the government wants to change the meaning of autonomy by emphasising that people are autonomous when they rely on social network members, people who grew up in the heyday of the welfare state feel embarrassed and ashamed when they are not able to reciprocate. Our findings imply that policymakers and social professionals need to reconsider the idea that resources of informal care are inexhaustible and that citizens can look after each other much more than they already do. It is important that social policymakers approach the codes and norms underlying social relations more cautiously because pressure on these relations can have negative effects.

Résumé De nombreuses discussions sur les valeurs et les idéaux néerlandais portent aujourd'hui sur le sexe et la sexualité. Dans l'« approche globale » de la santé sexuelle aujourd'hui développée aux Pays-Bas, les parents et le travail parental jouent un rôle important. Cet article propose une analyse du matériau ethnographique et du contenu des supports pédagogiques développés pour le cours « Grandir dans l'amour » conçu pour former les parents à l'éducation sexuelle de leurs enfants dans les zones urbaines défavorisées. Dans ces cours, parler ouvertement de sexualité n'est pas seulement présenté comme étant « normal », mais également comme étant typiquement « néerlandais », ce qui contribue à la formation d'un nationalisme sexuel particulier. De ce mélange entre ce qui est « normal » et ce qui est « néerlandais » résulte une présentation des anomalies sexuelles comme étant d'ordre culturel et ce faisant, ressortissant de l'Autre culturel.

Many discussions on "Dutch" values and ideals today are about sex and sexualities. In today's Dutch "comprehensive approach" to sexual health, parents and parenting play an important role. This paper offers an analysis of ethnographic material and a content analysis of teaching material of the course "Growing up with love", designed to train parents in Dutch deprived urban areas for the sex education of their children. In these courses, talking openly about sex is presented as not only "normal", but also typically "Dutch", thus formulating a particular sexual nationalism. Vis-a-vis this conflation of "the normal" and "Dutchness" is the presentation of sexual abnormalities as decisively "cultural" and thus located with the cultural Other. Adapted from the source document.