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People with a high income whose parents were born in the Netherlands have fewer contacts with a different origin in their network than Dutch people with a migration background. This comes out research from the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS).
The research ran between 2009 and 2020. In addition to people of Dutch origin, CBS examined the ten largest groups of Dutch people with a migration background.
The researchers determined people’s ‘origin segregation’ scores, the extent to which they are surrounded by people who resemble themselves. For this purpose, CBS mapped neighbors, classmates, colleagues, housemates and family.
“Residents of Dutch origin have actually started to live more in their own bubble,” says Tanja Traag, chief researcher at CBS in the NOS Radio 1 News. She calls the increase striking compared to the diversity figures. “Diversity in Dutch society has increased.”
In 2009, 20 percent of the inhabitants of the Netherlands had a migration background, in 2020 that was about a quarter.
After residents without a migration background, residents with a Moroccan, Turkish or Polish background had the highest segregation scores. People from Germany, the United Kingdom and Indonesia score the lowest.
Lees here how CBS calculated the segregation score and how different groups in a network are defined.
Residents of Dutch origin with a high income live the most segregated lives. These are people with the highest 20 percent incomes. This group therefore interacts most with people from their own bubble.
In certain population groups it is the other way around. People of Turkish, Moroccan and Dutch-Caribbean origin and a higher income socialize less with people with a similar background.
As a possible explanation, Tanja Traag gives that people with high-paid jobs live in richer neighborhoods, where fewer people with a migration background live. “If you live in such a neighborhood, you have access to a school for your children that offers different opportunities than if you live in a neighborhood with only social housing.”
She points out that this leads to inequality of opportunity. “Because it is not possible for everyone to achieve the same opportunities as other people. It depends on which bubble you grow up in.”
2024-02-23 08:48:27
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