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Jochem Tolsma studied Natural Sciences at the Radboud University of Nijmegen. After receiving his master’s degree, he worked as a youth and social worker in multi-ethnic neighbourhoods of Amsterdam. He started a second study, this time in Social Cultural Sciences at the Free University of Amsterdam. In his final year, he joined the Amsterdam Study on Anxiety and Depression research group (AMSTAD) and wrote his thesis on the depression rates of ethnic minorities in the Netherlands. Currently, he is a member of the Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology graduate school (ICS) and works as a PhD student in sociology at the Radboud University of Nijmegen. His main fields of interest are the integration of ethnic minorities, prejudice, and the consequences of blocked social mobility.
PhD project: Social Mobility and the Multi-Cultural Society: a Multi-Ethnic Group Perspective
Abstract
This project studies the impact of social mobility and family of origin on attitudes towards the multicultural society. The project is innovative in three respects. First, it elaborates a dynamic explanation by incorporating inter- and intra-generational occupational and educational mobility. Previous models are usually limited to explanations drawn from the present situation people live in. A frequently made claim in the literature is that blocked intergenerational social mobility explains dissatisfaction with the multicultural society. However, empirical evidence on this issue is scarce. Second, micro and macro perspectives will be taken into consideration to explain attitudes towards multicultural society. Competitive ethnic threat at both the neighbourhood and the city level will be used to explain individual prejudicial attitudes. Third, both the perspective of the majority and the ethnic minority will be used to study multicultural attitudes. Studies on interethnic relations usually focus on the majority population. Only recently, attention has shifted towards immigrants’ opinions towards multicultural society in the Netherlands.
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Key Publication
Tolsma, J., Coenders, M. & Lubbers, M. (2007) Trends in ethnic educational inequalities in the Netherlands: a cohort design. European Sociological Review, 23 (3), pp. 325-339. |
