Dutch Political Deadlock Amidst Fear Mongering on Migration
Understanding this current moment requires an analysis of a broad swathe of failures by dominant political forces over the past decades.
I wrote an article for The Contrapuntal that analyses the current focus on migration in the Netherlands by understanding it as the result of decades of policy failures. Check it out here: https://thecontrapuntal.com/dutch-political-deadlock-amidst-fear-mongering-on-migration/.
Last year, the Dutch government fell over a claim that thousands of refugee families were supposedly taking advantage of the country’s family reunification policies. According to the center-right party, De Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie (The People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy), commonly referred to as VVD, thousands of distantly related relatives of asylum seekers were flooding into the country and taking advantage of the system that was called “stacked migration”.
Except that it was a lie.
Want to continue reading? Check out the full article here: https://thecontrapuntal.com/dutch-political-deadlock-amidst-fear-mongering-on-migration/.