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2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 408-414
Author(s):  
Eyamba G. Bokamba
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Language Policy ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Publishing Company ◽  
Impact Studies

scholarly journals Language policy and language education in the Netherlands and Romania

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Folkert Kuiken ◽  
Elisabeth van der Linden
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Language Policy ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Individual Member ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Member States ◽  
Eu Member States

The European Union encourages all its citizens to be able to speak two languages in addition to their mother tongue. However, since the content of educational systems is the responsibility of individual member states, promoting multilingualism depends on the language policy of each member state. Still, countries may learn from practices and experiences in other countries. The similarities and differences between two case studies may be instructive from that point of view. In this paper, language policy and language education in two EU member states are compared with each other: the Netherlands on the one hand and Romania on the other. Questions that will be raised are: what are the linguistic rights of the minority groups, which languages are taught to whom, and to which degree is multilingualism an issue in both countries? Despite differences between the two countries, some striking similarities are observed.

Enterprising Identities: Female Entrepreneurs of Moroccan or Turkish Origin in the Netherlands

2007 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Essers ◽  
Yvonne Benschop
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
White Male ◽  
Social Categories ◽  
Female Entrepreneurs ◽  
Complex Processes ◽  
Turkish Origin ◽  
The Social ◽  
Minority Entrepreneurs

This paper explores the complex processes of identity construction of female ethnic minority entrepreneurs. Informed by discursive approaches to identity, we make an intersectional analysis of five life stories of female entrepreneurs of Moroccan or Turkish origin in the Netherlands. Being female, Turkish or Moroccan, and entrepreneur at the same time requires various strategies to negotiate identities with different constituencies. These strategies of identity work vary in the degree of conformity: one type is to mainly adhere to conventional images of femininity, a second one is to denounce femininity and/or ethnicity situationally, and the third is to resist the masculine connotation of entrepreneurship by disconnecting it from masculinity. Our focus on this hitherto neglected group of entrepreneurs makes for a situated contribution to the deconstruction of the entrepreneurial archetype of the white male hero. It furthers the understanding of the micropolitics of identity construction in the workplace in relation to the social categories of gender, ethnicity and entrepreneurship.

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