Netherlands: Germany doing a better job integrating Moroccans
Germany gets better results with integration of Moroccans than the Netherlands. According to social geographer Paolo de Mas, the Morocco authority of the Netherlands, the German approach works to quell criminality and unemployment. He therefore asks for 'more emphasis on authority and maintaining law' in the Netherlands.
Big groups of Moroccans live in the Netherlands and Germany from the hashish trade dominated Rif area of North Morocco. In Morocco the Rif residents are seen as people who mistrust authority and don't follow the law just like that. The cultivation of hashish has been tolerated by the Moroccan authorities for years and Rif residents in Morocco and Europe earn a living from the drug trade.
Last year, according to the justice department, sixty Moroccans were deported from the Netherlands for criminal activities.
"Just should see this smuggling as a way of life from necessity," says De Mas, who's been doing a study in North Morocco since the 70s. "If the work market doesn't function, you look for alternatives, in Morocco as well as in the Netherlands."
"The problems in the Netherlands with some of the Moroccan youth are partially culturally specific, influence by our street culture, but in particular also the result of a bad flow to our job market."
In Germany there are better education routes for youth and the job market offers greater possibility, says De Mas. He says that it's possible that in Germany boundaries are set and corrections are made earlier in schools, society and by the justice department and police.
De Mas was education attache in the Dutch embassy in Morocco and a director of the Dutch Institute Morocco in Rabat. He works now on establishing the Morocco Institute in The Hague, a documentation center about Morocco and Moroccan immigration.
Source: AD (Dutch)
Germany gets better results with integration of Moroccans than the Netherlands. According to social geographer Paolo de Mas, the Morocco authority of the Netherlands, the German approach works to quell criminality and unemployment. He therefore asks for 'more emphasis on authority and maintaining law' in the Netherlands.
Big groups of Moroccans live in the Netherlands and Germany from the hashish trade dominated Rif area of North Morocco. In Morocco the Rif residents are seen as people who mistrust authority and don't follow the law just like that. The cultivation of hashish has been tolerated by the Moroccan authorities for years and Rif residents in Morocco and Europe earn a living from the drug trade.
Last year, according to the justice department, sixty Moroccans were deported from the Netherlands for criminal activities.
"Just should see this smuggling as a way of life from necessity," says De Mas, who's been doing a study in North Morocco since the 70s. "If the work market doesn't function, you look for alternatives, in Morocco as well as in the Netherlands."
"The problems in the Netherlands with some of the Moroccan youth are partially culturally specific, influence by our street culture, but in particular also the result of a bad flow to our job market."
In Germany there are better education routes for youth and the job market offers greater possibility, says De Mas. He says that it's possible that in Germany boundaries are set and corrections are made earlier in schools, society and by the justice department and police.
De Mas was education attache in the Dutch embassy in Morocco and a director of the Dutch Institute Morocco in Rabat. He works now on establishing the Morocco Institute in The Hague, a documentation center about Morocco and Moroccan immigration.
Source: AD (Dutch)
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