Even neighborhoods with higher-educated ethnic minorities arouse resistance

Monday, January 9, 2012 - 10:02 in Psychology & Sociology

The resistance towards ethnically mixed neighborhoods decreases if higher-educated people from ethnic minorities live there. Yet even then a large proportion of the autochthonous Dutch population still prefer to avoid neighbourhoods with a high concentration of people from ethnic minorities. This is the conclusion of Dutch researcher Marieke van Londen who defended her PhD thesis on 12 January at the Radboud University Nijmegen.

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