Abstract How serious are ethnic jokes? This article investigates this question by looking at the relation between jokes and relations in Netherlands. It analyzes two corpora covering range of collected using an (almost) identical survey among high school students 1995 (

Abstract Parental support is vital for the well‐being and resilience of children with a refugee background as they navigate resettlement. However, providing such parental challenging parents facing significant life changes due to involuntary migration are unfamiliar their new society. This study distinguishes between emotional informational support, focusing on whether prioritize support–involving advice or exchanging information–and examines its determinants. We applied multiple linear...

PurposeThis article explores how newly-arrived children with a refugee background describe their everyday lives in the Netherlands, focus on they perceive peer relations and broader social climate host country. MethodsIn this case study, groups were conducted 46 Syrian-born background, ranging between ages of 8 to 17 years old. All participants have temporary residence permit live Rotterdam together (part of) family. A board game was developed as research tool stimulate share perspectives...

This article focuses on the multiple feelings of belonging that refugee-background youngsters experience toward their country origin (Syria) and city resettlement (Rotterdam). The conceptual framework Antonsich is used to examine how personal social dimensions shape belonging. Based interviews photo-elicitation with 19 young people, this study shows feeling Syria presented as a natural given, whereas Rotterdam developed over time, shaped by increasing familiarity normalcy. Although exclusion...

Ethnic humor and ethnic relations in the Netherlands: Jokes about foreigners groups Netherlands, 1995Netherlands, -2012 How do jokes, a genre that is often considered to be offensive discriminatory, relate discourses of difference?This article investigates relation between jokes Netherlands.It analyzes two corpora covering range collected using an (almost) identical survey among high school students 1995 (N = 248) 2012 312).Finding complex pattern overlapping shifting scripts, we identify...

The experiences of refugee youth with school closure due to COVID-19: A qualitative study on increasing educational inequality young people from Syria in Rotterdam This paper focusses the Syrian first (spring 2020), COVID-19 policy measures. Based repeated interviews 19 boys and girls – before, during after we examine how have experienced closure, this influence their position by using four central tasks education Van de Werfhorst Mijs (2010). our emphasize that online is more difficult...

‘Moroccan’ and ‘Surinamese-Hindustani’ Dutch have fewer chances on the labour market compared to ‘autochthonous’ Dutch. Although both groups face discrimination, Andriessen et al. (2015) show that discrimination works differently for groups. can compensate ethnic penalty by having more work experience than stressing their integration into society. This article shows why these groups, explains when how symbolic boundaries between social categories become permeable be crossed. To reveal...