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The Position of the Turkish and Moroccan Second Generation by Maurice Crul, Liesbeth Heering

By Maurice Crul, Liesbeth Heering

This primary ebook of the binds venture (Towards the mixing of the ecu moment iteration) examines the social stratification and perspectives of the second one Dutch iteration of Turkish and Moroccan beginning residing within the Netherlands. Drawing on study conducted in 2006–7 the Dutch-born kids of immigrants from Turkey and Morocco in Amsterdam and Rotterdam and a comparability staff of kids whose mom and dad have been born within the Netherlands, this quantity sheds very important gentle at the lives of the second-generation Muslim formative years coming of age and creating a transition from schooling to the hard work market.** [C:\Users\Microsoft\Documents\Calibre Library]

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Turkish fathers are an average of 54 years old, Moroccan fathers, 57, and the fathers of the comparison group, 58. 6 363 40 GIJS BEETS, SUSAN TER BEKKE AND JEANNETTE SCHOORL The age difference between Moroccan spouses is considerably larger than that of the other two groups. This phenomenon is consistent with what is known from statistics on age differences upon marriage in Morocco and in Turkey. Respondents in the comparison group are twice as likely as second-generation Turks and Moroccans to have parents with an age difference of less than one year or to have a mother who is older than her spouse.

In Rotterdam, people of Moroccan descent number at 45,200 and those of Turkish descent, at 36,700; the shares of the second generation are 47 per cent and 48 per cent, respectively. 4). People of Turkish and Moroccan descent form only a small share of the total population, though this is much less the case in the younger age groups. Up to age twenty, about a quarter of the two cities’ total population is of Turkish or Moroccan descent; between the ages of twenty and 30, about one in six; between the ages of 30 and 40, one in eight.

5 Conclusions The immigration history of the Turkish and the Moroccan populations dates back to the mid-1960s. Apart from the Surinamese, these two groups form the largest populations of foreign descent in the Netherlands. The country’s two major cities of Amsterdam and Rotterdam have attracted big shares of both groups, with Moroccans being the more dominant in Amsterdam and Turks in Rotterdam. The first generation is still larger than the second generation, but the latter is increasing rapidly, relative to the former.

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