Integration of second generation migrants is hardly faster – NOS

Turkish, Moroccan, Surinamese and Antillean Dutch people do better in school, but that does not lead to a better position on the labour market. The integration of the second generation of immigrants is, therefore, hardly faster than their parents, conclude researchers from the Social and Cultural Planning bureau (SCP).

“We see, for example, that non-western migrants the Citotoets getting better and better,” says researcher Willem Huijnk. “Their influx at havo/vwo, and further to hbo and university is also increasing.” But according to him, the backwardness of migrants on the labour market is still substantial. The unemployment rates are high: 15.6 percent of the non-western migrants has no work, from 5.6 percent of the native-born population.

Discrimination

Huijnk explains the considerable difference is partly due to the on average still have lower educational attainment of migrants and their limited work experience. “But there are also other things a role: differences in the social networks, cultural competence and discrimination by employers.”

Also, non-western immigrants more often been in contact with the criminal justice system. The 30-year-old non-western immigrants was 37 percent ever suspected of a crime. Among Dutch people of 30 is 18%.

Increasingly, migrants feel less at home in the Netherlands. The increase is particularly evident in the second generation, children of whom at least one of the parents has not been born in the Netherlands. They experience more discrimination, because they are more on the Dutch society, focusing more on what’s happening around them.

Natives is positive

From the research.pdf) shows precisely that the native-born population of less resistance have been against migrants. By the vluchtelingencrisis, the concerns have increased, but that translates not into a more negative attitude against migrants. Less and less natives say that there are too many people with other nationalities living in the Netherlands.

One explanation for the decrease of the resistance is the habituation to a changing society, says the SCP. But also the growth of the number of skilled is of influence. People who have secondary and more educated are less critical about the arrival of migrants to the Netherlands. They will feel less threatened and find changes in the society more obvious than lageropgeleiden.