Educating Immigrants in the Netherlandsmigration flows and educational policy in the twentieth century
- Braster, Jacques F.A.
- Pozo Andrés, María del Mar del
ISSN: 0030-9230
Year of publication: 2001
Issue Title: Education and ethnicity
Volume: 37
Issue: 1
Pages: 87-106
Type: Article
More publications in: Paedagogica Historica: International journal of the history of education
Abstract
The first part of this article describes some general tendencies in migrant and school populations in Western Europe. Then it focusses upon some specific migration flows in the Netherlands in the twentieth century. A distinction is made between three migration parameters: colonies, labour force, and asylum. The second part of this article discusses the policy initiatives taken to educate the different migrant groups and their offspring. A distinction can be made between the first 70 years of the twentieth century and the remaining decades. In the first part of the century the education of immigrants was in the hands of private initiatives set up by churches, welfare institutions, migrant organisations, and employers. Later the Dutch government became a major player