Freeland: How Residents Are Creating a Dutch City from Scratch

This paper explores the relationship between education and labour market positioning in The Hague, a Dutch city with a unique labour market. One of the main minority groups, Turkish-Dutch, is the focus in this qualitative study on higher educated minorities and their labour market success. Interviews reveal that the obstacles the respondents face are linked to discrimination and network limitation. The respondents perceive “personal characteristics” as the most important tool to overcoming the obstacles. Education does not only increase their professional skills, but also widens their networks. The Dutch education system facilitates the chances of minorities in higher education through the “layering” of degrees.

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Regents and Rebels: The Revolutionary World of an Eighteenth-Century Dutch City. Wayne Ph. te Brake, Charles Tilly

The Journal of Modern History ◽

10.1086/244761 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 65 (4) ◽

pp. 881-882

Keyword(s):

Eighteenth Century ◽

Charles Tilly ◽

Dutch City

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“The Hoist of the Yellow Flag”: Vulnerable Port Cities and Public Health

Journal of Planning History ◽

10.1177/1538513221998716 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 153851322199871

Author(s):

Dirk Schubert ◽

Cor Wagenaar ◽

Carola Hein

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Water Quality ◽

Close Contact ◽

Social Darwinism ◽

Health Issues ◽

Port City ◽

Port Cities ◽

Slum Dwellers ◽

Yellow Flag ◽

Dutch City

Port cities have long played a key role in the development, discovery, and fight against diseases. They have been laboratories for policies to address public health issues. Diseases reached port cities through maritime exchanges, and the bubonic plague is a key example. Port city residents’ close contact with water further increased the chance for diseases such as cholera. Analyzing three European port cities, this article first explores the relevance of water quality for public health through the lens of the Dutch city of Rotterdam. It then examines plans and projects for London that were shaped by social Darwinism and stressed the moral failings of slum dwellers as a major cause for their misery. It finally explores the case of Hamburg as the perfect example of a city that cultivated ideals of purity and cleanliness by addressing all issues at stake in public health. This article on urban hygiene in three port cities shows how remarkably rich this field of study is; it also demonstrates that the multifaceted aspects of public health in port cities require further attention.

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