Welk soortelijk gewicht heeft sociaal beleid, en aan welke dynamiek is het onderhevig? Hoe zwaar weegt het in het Haagse? Is het verbeteren van de sociale kwaliteit van onze samenleving een opdracht die opkan tegen het equivalent daarvan in de economische en fysieke sfeer? En is het soortelijk gewicht van sociaal beleid de afgelopen jaren gedaald? (Hebben stoffen eigenlijk altijd eenzelfde soortelijk gewicht? Zou water als het bevriest en ijs wordt een ander soortelijk gewicht krijgen?) In deze bundel wordt vanuit diverse hoeken stilgestaan bij het soortelijk gewicht van sociaal beleid. De teksten zijn geschreven en samengebracht als Liber Amicorum voor Wim Woertman, ter gelegenheid van diens afscheid van het Ministerie van Volksgezondheid, Welzijn en Sport.
Lokale aanpak gebiedsgericht beleid. Prakttijkvoorbeelden in het landelijk gebied.
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Whilst until the late 1980s most migration issues developed in a parallel manner but with national specifics, important differences showed up during the 1990s and at the beginning of this decade. Since the middle of the 1990s, there has been an obvious change in policy towards migrants and foreigners in the Netherlands, and those changes have been more or less “exported” to our neighbouring countries and even to the level of the EU. Integration into society with the maintenance of the immigrant’s own culture has been replaced by integration into the Dutch society after passing an integration examination. The focus of this article is to investigate those changes and to compare the implementation of those policies in the Netherlands/Limburg and Germany/NRW, where the official understanding of not being an immigration country was dominant until the end of the 1990s, and where integration has only recently become an important political issue. Both countries are now facing similar challenges for better integration into the society, especially into the educational system. Firstly, the autors describe migration definitions, types, the numbers of migrants and the backgrounds of migrant policies in Germany and the Netherlands up until the middle of the 1990s. Secondly they discuss the integration policies thereafter: the pathway to a new policy and the Action Plan Integration in Germany, and the central ideas of the Civic Integration of Newcomers Act (WIN) in the Netherlands. Integration policy in the Netherlands is highly centralised with little differentiation on the local governmental level when compared to South Limburg. Thirdly, the autors investigate the cross-border cooperation between professional organisations and educational institutions in the Euregio Meuse-Rhine, and the involvement of social work institutions and social workers in their process of integration into the local society and the exchange of each others’ experiences (the ECSW and RECES projects).
