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| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Schrover, Marlou |
| Copyright Year | 2018 |
| Description | This chapter investigates the relationship between space and community from a historical perspective. It focuses on collective housing during the guest worker migration regime (1955–1965) in the Netherlands. The literature on space and community denies the importance of employers and authorities, and ignores the effect of centralised housing on community formation. Employers created isolated islands of immigrants. The end of collective housing and the move towards private housing led to riots. This chapter seeks to explain why there were differences in housing and how this reshaped Dutch cities. It concludes that local housing opportunity structures in combination with government policies regarding family reunification were the key factor.This chapter investigates the relationship between space and community from a historical perspective. It focuses on collective housing during the guest worker migration regime in the Netherlands. The chapter focuses on urban migration histories and analyses the role of employers, municipal and national governments, and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in transforming cities. It then focuses on three cities: Arnhem in the east, Utrecht in the middle and IJmuiden in the west of the Netherlands. The housing shortage was a reason why the Dutch government encouraged and financed the emigration of 400,000 Dutch to overseas destinations like Australia and Canada. In 1963, Dutch trade unions strongly opposed recruitment of guest workers, despite a shortage of 100,000 workers. Dutch policy makers originally called the guest workers "international commuters". The guest workers' attempts to find housing led to riots. In 1969, there were severe riots in the Schilderswijk, in The Hague, and in 1972 in the Afrikaanderbuurt, in Rotterdam. Book Name: The Routledge Handbook of the Governance of Migration and Diversity in Cities |
| Related Links | https://content.taylorfrancis.com/books/download?dac=C2017-0-61579-5&isbn=9781351108478&format=googlePreviewPdf |
| Ending Page | 38 |
| Page Count | 17 |
| Starting Page | 22 |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781351108478-4 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2018-09-03 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Book Name: The Routledge Handbook of the Governance of Migration and Diversity in Cities History Structures Guest Workers Housing Led To Riots |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Chapter |
