Paul Scheffer

Paul Scheffer ( born September 3, 1954 in Nijmegen) is a Dutch professor, sociologist and journalist and prominent member of the Partij van de Arbeid.

Life

Paul Scheffer worked for a long time for the Wiardi Beckman Foundation, the Office of the scientific Partij van de Arbeid.

On 29 January 2000, he wrote in the NRC Handelsblad published an article entitled Het multiculturele drama ( The multicultural drama), which was understood by many as an attack on the multicultural coexistence.

Since 2003, Scheffer holds the Wibaut Chair of problems of the big city at the University of Amsterdam.

In February 2005, Scheffer thought about it, to stand as a top candidate for the Partij van de Arbeid (PvdA ) for the following elections to the Second Chamber. It held an orientation meeting with the party chairman Ruud Koole and left at the same time know that he would see in PvdA leader Wouter Bos little party. Shortly afterwards told the Cabinet Balkenende II that Scheffer but did not want to provide.

In October 2007, Scheffers Het country van appeared aankomst, a - as the blurb says - wide reared search for what is happening beneath the surface of the multicultural coexistence. Starting point of the book was an analysis of the forms of immigration to the Netherlands. Quote from the book: ". Hoe sea we het conflict dead ons deferred door penetrate, hoe beter we het kunnen hanteren " ( "The more we can penetrate the conflict to us, the better we can handle it "). The book was an instant for public topic of conversation. Currently in the Netherlands is the tenth edition in the shops.

Scheffer is married, father of one child and lives in Amsterdam. He is the grandson of the Dutch Philiosophen Herman Wolf.

Publications

  • Een tevreden natie: Nederland en het neither Kerend geloof in de Europese status quo. Amsterdam: Bert Bakker, 1988 ISBN 978-90-351-0616-1.
  • Laughed eden Het vergt onderhoud ( Ketelaar - lezing ). The Hague: Nationaal Archief, 2005 ISBN 978-90-74920-19-3.
  • Het country van aankomst. Amsterdam: De Bezige Bij, 2007 ISBN 978-90-234-7070-0.
  • The immigrants. Tolerance in a borderless world. , Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 3-446-23080-7
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