Segregation in the Netherlands
Amsterdam is becoming more segregated:
Segregation in Amsterdam has increased in recent years, as Moroccans, Turkish nationals and Dutch natives increasingly congregate together in city districts, a city council report indicated on Friday.
The 2004 Diversity and Integration Monitor found that there are a rising number of areas where 70 to 80 percent of the population is made up of non-western immigrants. The highest percentages are found in Zuidoost, Zeeburg and parts of Nieuw-West.
The small concentration of non-western immigrants living in the city centre in 2000 completely disappeared from the canal district in 2003. The centre and inner city districts to the south are especially populated by Dutch natives and western immigrants.
The situation in the centre of Amsterdam is thus becoming more and more like the other large cities in the Netherlands, such as Rotterdam, where distinct divisions in suburbs are noticeable. In years past, ethnic segregation in the Dutch capital was better than other large cities.
The Amsterdam Council report said the change was due to the failure to integrate immigrants into Dutch society, newspaper De Telegraaf reported on Friday.
City areas with large immigrant populations are the most unattractive places in terms of the housing market. Problems such as unemployment, social security dependence and school absentee rates are prevalent and contact with Dutch natives is infrequent.
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posted by Adam Lawson @ 12:11 PM
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This brings to mind reports showing LA to be at the same time the most diverse and the most residentially segregated city in California (and probably in all of America). For example, you can read that here:
http://www.ppic.org/main/pressrelease.asp?i=274
The documented 'white flight' from California can also be put in this context.
Naturally there's a basket of perfectly good reasons: schools, crime, loss of neighborhood ambience etc.
Of course mostly the segregation is seen as the problem, not the immigration-caused "diversity" that brings people to make this choice.
Thanks for the link. I was very interested in this finding:
Wealthy, primarily white neighborhoods remain among the most segregated in the state. Newport Beach is one of the least diverse places in California, as are, to a lesser degree, Manhattan Beach, Malibu, and Hermosa Beach.
I am sure that many of the people who live in these areas consider themselves liberals who are open to immigration as long as they don't have to live in the same neighborhoods as the immigrants themselves.
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