Paul Scheffer
Scheffer
A publicist and a Professor of Urban Sociology at the University of Amsterdam, who in 2000 published the article “The Multicultural Drama” that ignited the controversial debate about integration and immigration in the Netherlands.
From The Weekly Standard on ‘The Multicultural Drama:’ “For Scheffer, this system of postmodern pillarization system was a means of excluding Muslims, creating a kind of segregation by which people could “coexist without interacting.” Real pillarization of the sort that worked in the past rested on shared and nonnegotiable understandings of three things: language, history, and law. But Dutch society had become too self-loathing to insist on any of them.”
Links
- A short written lecture for the Institute for Human Science by Scheffer that urges the revaluation of European system and attitudes about immigration
- Brief information about Scheffer’s consideration to run for a leadership position in the Labor Party
