Tag: allochtoon

13 February 2013   Amsterdam’s city council will stop using the terminology “autochtoon” and “allochtoon” to identify citizens. “Allochtoon” refers to first or second generation migrants,...

8 May 2012   A report to the Dutch parliament from the advisory group on social development (RMO) has recommended the cessation of categorizing residents according...

31 January 2012   Immigration minister Geerd Leers has called for elimination of the term allochtoon, a designation connoting “non-native” and widely  applied in popular use...

The integration of immigrants into Dutch society is improving but segregation is increasing in some neighbourhoods and in schools, integration minister Eberhard van der...