Alfons Fermin
	Research fellow
AlfonsFermin is a cultural anthropologist and political  philosopher who has recently completed  a PhD research on the ideologies of Dutch political parties concerning the integration of ethnic minorities. His current research concerns the moral basis for integration policy. He is also interested in the problem of combining a normative philosophical approach with a social scientific one in analysing and contemplating issues concerning immigration and integration policy. Alfons Fermin joined the research and consultuncy Co. Questions, Answers and More bv (QA+) from March 2002

Participation in the research projects:	Project ID
Civic integration policy for new immigrants in the Netherlands valued from aliberal democratic perspective ( Completed )	14
Perspectives on active citizenship in relation to integration and multiculturality ( Completed )	38

Publications:

Articles , Research reports

Research report: Alfons Fermin, 2000, 'Burgerschap en integratiebeleid; (Citizenship and Integration Policy. Extensive summary ),(Nov. 2000).Den Haag Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties (Resulted from project ID:38 )

Research report: Alfons Fermin, Verplichte inburgering van nieuwkomers, ( The Justification of Mandatory Integration Programmes for New Immigrants. ) ERCOMER Research Paper 2001/01, Utrecht: ERCOMER (109 pagina's).(Resulted from project ID:14 ) Full text report

Alfons Fermin (2000), 'Overheidspaternalisme en verplichte inburgering van nieuwkomers'. In: Ars Aequi, 49(5), pp. 38-47. (Academic publication for the research project: (Resulted from project ID:14 )

Alfons Fermin (1999) 'Does culture make a difference to political parties? Political discourse on minority policy in the Netherlands 1977-1998', in: Maurice Crul, Flip Lindo, Ching Lin Pang (Eds.), Culture, Structure and Beyond; Changing identities and social positions of immigrants and their children. Amsterdam: Het Spinhuis: pp. 196-215.

Fermin, Alfons, 1999, 'La politique hollandaise envers les immigrés: du
multiculturalisme à l'integration'. In: Mouvements, No. 5,
septembre-octobre 1999, pp. 133-136.

Fermin, Alfons (1999) ‘Inburgeringsbeleid en burgerschap'. Migrantenstudies, Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 96-112. ( Academic publication, resulted from project ID:38 )

Fermin, Alfons (1998), ‘Het verlangen naar gemeenschap in Nederland' Inleiding tot een dossier over ‘Het verlangen naar gemeenschap' van Sjaak Koenis. Krisis, No. 71, pp.5-10.

 

Dissertation: Fermin, A (1997) 'Nederlandse politieke partijen over minderhedenbeleid' 1977-1995, Amsterdam, Thela Thesis Publishers. Abstract
There are still exemplars of the thesis that can be free obtained by the author or you can have the electronic version of the dissertation, by visiting the Library of the University of Utrecht.

 

Fermin, A (1997) 'Verschillen, verschuivingen en convergentie in het politieke debat over integratiebeleid', in: Civis Mundi, Vol. 36, No. 3/4, July 1997, pp. 139-146.

 

Fermin, A. (1995) ‘Nederlandse politieke partijen over het minderhedenbeleid’ in B van de Rijt, Y. Sterken and I van Veldhuizen (Eds.) Promotieonderzoek aan de Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen, Utrecht: ISOR, 15–32

 

Fermin, A (1994) ‘Nederlandse politieke stromingen over de multiculturele samenleving’, Vraagstelling. Tijdschrift voor de gamawetenschappen Vol. 1 No. 2, 49–64

 

Entzinger, H.B. & A. Fermin (1991) 'Selectie en discriminiatie in de multi-etnische samenleving', in: W.E. Bakker & P.B. Lehning (Eds.) Kiezen en verdelen: selectie van burgers als interventiestrategie, Meppel/Amsterdam, Boom, 85-99

 

 

Papers presented at conferences:

 

Comments on the conference paper of Prof. Yael Tamir on 'Multiculturalism and theories of representation', during the Expert-Colloquium ‘Nationalism, Multiculturalism and Liberal Democracy; Dutch and Israeli Perspectives", Amsterdam, 26-28 November 1997.

 

'Verschillen, verschuivingen en convergentie in het politieke debat over integratiebeleid', paper presented at the NSV Marktdag 'Sociologie', Utrecht, 29 Mai 1997

 

‘Does culture make a difference according to Dutch political parties?’ Paper pres. at the conference: ‘Does culture make a difference?’, Amsterdam, 14–16 November 1996

 

‘Politieke partijen over etnisch-culturele verscheidenheid en burgershap’, Paper pres. at the conference: ‘7e Sociaal-Wetenschappelijke Studiedagen’, Amsterdam, 11–12 April 1996

 

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