Freedom Writers: A Story of a Mini Holocaust (Richard LaGravenese)
Review
Mariosé Bergsteijn
24/10/2018
5 minutes to read
"How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them". A review on problems of poverty and ethnic diversity in the classroom.
The debate about the 'Other' and the Islam in particular seems endless. Many people just 'give up', but that is the exact opposite of what we should do.
Across Europe, there is an ongoing trend for individual nation states to use their national language to determine what it means to be integrated into the society.
Since the 1990s, all over Europe political parties have developped integration policies and integration discourses as a response to new patterns of migration. This file from Diggit Magazine zooms in on these integration policies.
When theoretical concepts become politicized, they are re-interpreted to fit political strategies. A prime example is the term “integration”. In Denmark it functions as a normative tool to adjust behavior, rather than creating new unities.
There is an ongoing trend for European nation states to use their own nationãl language to determine what it means to be "one of us". A close look at relevant policies can reveal what a "language threshold" really means.
Eurpean nations are using their own nation language as the threshold to define what it means to be “one of us”. Relevant language policies in integration tests are far from embracing multiculturalism, but ones that feed intolerance and prejudice.
'Het is terecht dat de media consequent aandacht geven aan etnisch profileren, maar ze reduceren in het debat structurele problemen tot individuele problemen', zegt Paul Mutsaers (Tilburg University)
