Integration from the Socio-Cultural Perspective in NL Socio-Cultural Perspective
Integrating in Socio-cultural Perspective means that the immigrant group:
• Have the same norms and values as the rest of the population.
• Have more or less the same opinions and culture as the rest of the population.
Here we will examine which group, that is work migrants or refugees, integrates best according to those points.
It is difficult to answer this question, since there are no real data to be found on this. There is no chart that tells you whether the norms and values of the immigrants are the same as those of the Dutch people. What you can look at, however, are things that influence norms and values, and are influenced by them. For example, if someone
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You can see how often they go to church, so basically how devoted they are, from at least once a week (very religious) to hardly ever (very moderate). Of the Islam, you can see that half of the people go hardly ever to church, so those are most likely the most moderate Muslims. However, there is no real way through the middle, because most of the people who are not very moderate go to church at least once a week, meaning they are very devoted to their religion, which in turn means they probably have many norms and values that belong to strict Islamism, such as headscarves or even burkas, and have probably also kept much of their original culture. This shows that most of the work migrants and refugees have the same norms and values as we do, but also a lot of them cling to the strict values of the …show more content…
If you take a look at the New EU-immigrants, you can see that they are all very low, most under two and none above three percent. Apart from that, it is more or less tied between the refugees and the work migrants, so that is the non-western migrants. From the graph you can see that Iranian, Iraqi and Afghan suspect rates lie around 3%, while of the work migrants, Antilleans, Moroccans and Surinamese all have higher suspect rates than 3%. On the other hand, Somalians are still suspected quite often, despite their rapid decrease since 2005; they still have 4.5%, which is as much as the Moroccans, and less than only the Antilleans.
So overall I would say that in criminal rates the work migrants do better than refugees, but if this is closing evidence as to their socio-cultural integration? I can’t say. It is possible that this means that work migrants integrate better in this area, but these suspect rates may also have a different cause. Again, this is just speculation. Integration
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