Paul Scheffer (sociologist)
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Paul Scheffer (born September 3, 1954 in Nijmegen ) is a Dutch professor , sociologist and journalist and a prominent member of the Partij van de Arbeid .
Life
Paul Scheffer worked for the Wiardi Beckman Foundation , the scientific office of the Partij van de Arbeid , for a long time .
On January 29, 2000 he wrote an article in the NRC Handelsblad with the title Het multiculturele drama (German title: Das multikulturelle Drama ), with which he sparked a heated debate about immigration in the Netherlands, which continues to this day.
From 2003 to 2011, Scheffer held the Wibaut Chair for Urban Problems at the University of Amsterdam . He is currently a professor at Tilburg University.
In February 2005, Scheffer thought about standing up as the top candidate for the Partij van de Arbeid (PvdA) for the subsequent elections to the Second Chamber. He held an orientation talk with the party chairman Ruud Koole and at the same time let it be known that he would see little in PvdA party leader Wouter Bos . Shortly afterwards, the Balkenende II cabinet declared that Scheffer did not want to make himself available.
In October 2007 Scheffer's Het land van aankomst was published (German title: "The Immigrants"). With the book he wants to bring more objectivity to the controversy. In it Scheffer draws the history of immigration, warns against a misinterpretation of tolerance and calls for an end to indifference towards immigrants. The book immediately became a topic of public discussion. The tenth edition is currently in stores in the Netherlands.
Scheffer is married with one child and lives in Amsterdam. He is the grandson of the Dutch philosopher Herman Wolf .
Publications
- Een tevreden natie: Nederland en het wederkerend geloof in de Europese status quo . Amsterdam: Bert Bakker, 1988. ISBN 978-90-351-0616-1
- Het verleden vergt onderhoud ( Ketelaar-lezing ). The Hague: Nationaal Archief, 2005. ISBN 978-90-74920-19-3
- Het land van aankomst . Amsterdam: De Bezige Bij, 2007. ISBN 978-90-234-7070-0
- The immigrants. Tolerance in a limitless world. , Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 3-446-23080-7 ; New edition, with an introduction, translated by Gregor Seferens , Andreas Ecke , Heike Baryga , Gerd Busse , Carl Hanser, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-446-25182-3 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Paul Scheffer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Paul Scheffer , Tilburg University
- Literature by Paul Scheffer in the catalog of the Royal Library of the Netherlands
- It's also about loss , interview in: TAZ, January 2, 2009
- Interview: "Wilders is part of democracy" , Die Welt , June 8, 2010
- Close your eyes , January 31, 2016
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Taz Congress 2009 - ¿Do something! - Freedom & utopia
- ↑ Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Integration as a lengthy process , December 8, 2008
- ↑ Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Integration as a lengthy process , December 8, 2008
- ↑ Paul Scheffer - The Immigrants - Tolerance in a Boundless World ( Memento of the original from October 12, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Book presentation at the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Berlin on November 11, 2008 in Berlin (PDF; 65 kB)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Scheffer, Paul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch sociologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 3rd September 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nijmegen |