Hollanda’da Etnik İlişkiler, Gettolaşma ve Paralel Toplum Tartışmaları

Serious debates on the facts of segregation and ghettoization of immigrants and minority groups have been taking place in the Netherlands since the second half of the 1970’s. However, interestingly, previous debates brought no concrete measures or policies against those facts. On the contrary, policies to distribute immigrants into areas other than immigrant-intensive areas have been ethnicity based segregation. The same debate has recently become hot again. In the background of this debate, not only the latest increase in the ethnic intensity but also the changes in the integration policies have important roles. It is important to notice that, this time; both the style and the arguments of the debate are different than before. Today, ethnic intensity, on the one hand, is shown as a development against the integration policies followed so far, and on the other hand, its negative outcomes is paid attention on. While testing, with empirical data, the effects of ethnic intensity on ethnic relations, this paper questions the potential of the current intensity for segregation and creation a parallel society.