Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/74189 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
Nota di Lavoro No. 68.2006
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
Schematically one can distinguish two traditions related to ethnic statistics in Europe. In France, Germany and most southern European countries, the dominant statistical categorisations merely distinguish individuals on the basis of their nationality. In contrast, most northern European countries have been producing data on the ethnic and/or foreign origin of their populations. Belgium is caught somewhere in between these two traditions. The French speaking part of Belgium tends to follow the French tradition of refusing ethnic categorisation, while the Flemish (the Dutch speaking part) try to copy the Dutch model in distinguishing “allochthones” and “autochthones”. This contribution wants to offer an analysis of the construction of ethnic categories as it has been undertaken in the Dutch context. It equally wants to shed light on how the category of “allochthones” has been (partially) imported into the Belgian context and what the consequences are.
Subjects: 
Ethnic Categorisation
Statistics
“Allochthones”
the Netherlands
Belgium
JEL: 
B40
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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