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Several scholars have written on the relationship between local and national approaches to integration in the Netherlands. These authors have concluded that while the Dutch national government has become more assimilationist in its approach to migrant groups, local governments h…

My dissertation highlights two ways in which intergenerational relationships can be studied in light of increasing population heterogeneity. One approach is to assess whether immigrants and their descendants adopt "mainstream" attitudes, norms and behaviors related to parent-chi…

The International Woman Suffrage Alliance (IWSA) was an umbrella organization for national lobbying organizations for votes for women. Jewish women were leaders in many of the national woman suffrage movements, especially in the European movement. This study explores the social …

Few people may recall that for a period in the early 1960s, there was a Southeast Asian dispute outside of Indochina that appeared to reach the verge of large-scale war between a founding member of NATO and a major recipient of Soviet aid. But that was what occurred in the Nethe…

A double case study applying action research methodology was conducted in two pharmaceutical preparation manufacturers in the Netherlands to improve their manufacturing systems by implementing time-based manufacturing (TBM) practices. Following the diagnosis phase, the situation…

Waste and its management is a dynamic subject that has far reaching implications. These extend beyond basic practical issues of producer responsibility and consumer behaviour, and encompass pollution and environmental problems in a global context. Economic concerns, such as scar…

This dissertation examines the evolution, scope, and significance of the colonial discourse in the German-occupied Netherlands, as advanced by Dutch resisters writing in the country's extensive and influential clandestine press during the years of 1940-1945. In a testament to po…

In the Netherlands, anxieties about immigrants, Islam, and the preservation of Dutch values have amplified fears of Muslim youth despite the public discourse of tolerance. While the burgeoning second-generation of Dutch-born Muslim youth faces discrimination in the public sphere…

This dissertation explores how Dutch, British, and US political parties used gender and sexuality in discussions about Muslims, Islam, and cultural diversity in party brochures, pamphlets, and platforms between 1999 and 2006. Differences in parties' use of gender and sexuality c…

The two main theoretical approaches to explaining the demand for international reserves holdings are the buffer stock approach and the monetary approach. The buffer stock approach assumes optimizating behavior of central banks. They determine the level of reserves by equating th…

This study is a comparative study of the Turkish Islamist movement Milli Görüs (IGMG) in Germany and the Netherlands. It is a qualitative and a quantitative inquiry about the nature (whether it is moderate or radical) of the Milli Görüs movement in these two countries. The centr…

Westphalian secularism is neither universal nor 'rational' but Western, the product of a historical process, and it is unintended, cumulative, and incomplete. The recollection of its contingency, specificity and features is an essential prerequisite to overcoming the consistent …

This dissertation is an ethnographic analysis of Russian-speaking migrants in Amsterdam, The Netherlands in the context of European Union incorporation of Eastern European states, internal E.U. integration, and increasing surveillance of the E.U. outer borders. I investigate how…

This dissertation focuses on how different Islamic groups attempt to assert their authority to represent "True Islam" for Muslims living in Europe and how they cope with challenges from rivals with different interpretations. It focused on four Islamic communities ( cemaat ) that…

This dissertation examines the Indonesian war of independence: the process by which the archipelago formerly known as the Netherlands East Indies decolonized between 1945 and 1949. Based on extensive archival research, it investigates this revolutionary struggle through the lens…

Jihadi terrorism in Europe is a growing and ever-changing threat. Radicals embracing a militant brand of Islam were once an external threat, planning missions abroad before traveling to their Western targets. Jihadi terrorism has since evolved into an internal threat with the em…

This dissertation explores the reconfiguration of Syriac Orthodox liturgical tradition among Aramaic-speaking Christian refugees in the Netherlands. Under the pressures of Dutch integration policy and the global politics of secular recognition, the Syriac liturgy is rapidly losi…

This dissertation examines the production of transnational Turkish-Muslim identities and ethno-religious spaces in the Netherlands by focusing on the contested construction, meanings, and operations of mosques controlled by immigrants and citizens of Turkish background. The Turk…

Mecca and Amsterdam is a work of Christian theological ethics. It is, in essence, a theological response to the public issue of religious freedom and tolerance in a globalizing world. Rather than respond to the issue in the abstract, this dissertation develops its theology of re…

Taking the American tradition of political economy of the news media as a starting point, this dissertation examines Dutch journalism throughout the twentieth century, with a focus on the present. The argument is that the conclusion drawn by American scholars like Ben Bagdikian,…