Newcomers: Immigrants and Their Descendants in the Netherlands 1550-1995

This book is an attempt to reconstruct the complete picture of the arrival of foreigners in The Netherlands from the six-teenth century onwards and to describe how they acquired a place in Dutch society. This is done by combining and integrating the sociological approach with the historical one. The authors turn their attention not only to the foreigners them selves, and their place in society, but also to the question of how their descendants have fared.Rinus Penninx is the author of 'Newcomers: Immigrants and Their Descendants in the Netherlands 1550-1995', published 1998 under ISBN 9789055890934 and ISBN 9055890936.