‘Minority Representatives’ in the Netherlands: Supporting, Silencing or Suppressing?

• Nermin Aydemir ^[1] ; Rens Vliegenthart ^[2]
  1. [1] Bilkent University

     Bilkent University

     Turquía

     
  2. [2] University of Amsterdam

     University of Amsterdam

     Países Bajos

     
• Localización: Parliamentary affairs: A journal of representative politics, ISSN 0031-2290, Vol. 69, Nº 1, 2016, págs. 73-92
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This article focuses on how often and in what ways ‘minority representatives’ address cultural and/or religious rights and freedoms by analysing parliamentary questions between 2002 and 2012. The research first analysed to what extent, if any, Member of Parliaments of minority origin highlight minority-related issues in their parliamentary questions. Thereafter, it analysed the content of those questions in more detail. Unlike much previous research, we did not take a favourable content for granted. The idea of ‘suppressive representation’ was introduced to describe those cases in which ‘minority representatives’ were restrictive towards cultural and/or religious freedoms of ‘immigrant minorities’. Representation patterns show differences across group- and individual-level identities.