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Interventions for Integration.

Original title: Interventies voor integratie.

The geographic concentration of ethnic minorities in the Netherlands is increasingly seen as harmful for integration, as is the low level of contact between the indigenous and immigrant populations. All manner of local and national initiatives have been taken in the Netherlands in order to create more mixed residential neighbourhoods, and all kinds of ways have been sought to bring different population groups into contact with each other.

In order to gain an insight into the nature and success of these interventions, this study looks at what is happening in this area both in the Netherlands and elsewhere. There are two central questions: what is being done, and what works?