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Interculturaliteit is al jaren een zeer actueel thema. Migratie, identiteit, multiculturalisme, globalisering, de islam, de omgang met het koloniale verleden, meertaligheid en standaardtaalideologie: het zijn onderwerpen die niet meer uit onze media weg te branden zijn. Dit boek biedt een academisch referentiekader bij de hedendaagse politiek-maatschappelijke debatten over deze interculturele uitdagingen. In de theoretische inleiding worden verschillende recente paradigma's voor de studie van interculturaliteit voorgesteld en gecontextualiseerd. Vervolgens schetsen specialisten uit verschillende disciplines - waaronder geschiedenis, literatuurwetenschap, taalkunde en regiostudies - de contouren van het debat zoals het zich in hun domein aftekent, analyseren ze de context ervan en reiken ze wetenschappelijk onderbouwde antwoorden aan op prangende actuele vragen

Women and ethnic minorities are underrepresented in national parliaments around the world. Interestingly, in the Netherlands ethnic minority women are better represented than ethnic minority men and ethnic majority women. The Netherlands did not adopt gender quotas, but some parties implemented target numbers. Drawing on document analysis and interviews, this article explores whether parties that encourage women's representation are also likely to increase the number of ethnic minority representatives. It finds that party-specific factors such as a left or social democratic ideology, the institutionalization of gender and/or ethnicity within the party and the party's vision on group representation are intertwined. Parties that actively encourage women's representation are more inclined to openly acknowledge the importance of ethnic diversity. This especially favours ethnic minority women, who benefit from the strong embedding of gender. In the end gender determines the success of the ethnic card in political representation. Adapted from the source document.

The present article discusses the differences between the Islam debate in the Netherlands and its European neighboring countries and whether the Dutch perception of Muslims, Islam and themes related to fundamentalism and terrorism differ from those in other countries. The article explains that the decrease in tolerance as experienced over the last years is only partly similar with developments in other West-European societies and structures the discussion around 4 subjects: essentialist monists (rejecting the presence of Islam and Muslims in Western societies); evolutionary monists (rejecting the integration of the Muslim culture in a western society, but not the Muslims); essentialist pluralists (multicultural aspirations, rejecting western superiority and welcoming Islam and Muslims without far stretching adaptation by the cultures involved); and evolutionary pluralists (integration of the autochthonous and foreign culture). The article concludes by stating the Dutch multiculturalism will remain through a rapid cultural modernization of the country on the one hand, and an only partly assumed World War II trauma on the other. O. van Zijl

Introduces a journal symposium (see abstracts of related articles) on the influence of pressure groups on politics in Belgium. The ambivalent character of the contribution of power groups to democracy is discussed, distinguishing explanations based on the pluralist tradition, according to which groups are channels to democracy, & elite theories, which stress the power of oligarchies in the democratic hierarchy. Subsequently, Ingrid Vanhoren's (1990) categorization of external (eg, cultural & structural situation) & internal (eg, financial power & organizational infrastructure) characteristics of groups is used to determine what renders some groups more powerful than others. It is argued that the characteristics of groups are related to structural logics of power. In postwar Belgium, dominant power structures include vertical pluralism or pillarization, pillar-crossing cleavages, neocorporatism, & postmaterialism. An attempt is made to contextualize the recent globalization processes within the framework of these structural logics of power. Adapted from the source document.