Immigrant Integration

This text provides a unique overview of a long-term process of integration among the main immigrant groups, and demonstrates that cultural assimilation is not the highway to upward mobility that classical assimilation theory envisioned.

Hans Vermeulen is professor of integration and cultural diversity and co-director of research of the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies (IMES) of the University of Amsterdam. Rinus Penninx is professor of ethnic studies and director of IMES.