A tolerance framework for migrants’ issues in the Netherlands March 18, 2009

Matthew Waritay Guah, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, will be hosting this seminar from the Informatics Research Insititute.

Profile:
His research focuses in organizational issues surrounding emerging technologies in the healthcare and financial industries. Other research interests include neo-institutional theory, socio-economic impacts of IS on government services delivery, resistance to IS, organisational structure, IS infrastructure, strategic planning for IS -with a more general interest in the cognitive, material and social relationships between science, technology and business as well as their implications for present-day understandings of creativity and innovation. Matthew also serves as Visiting Professor at the Department of IS, Production and Logistics Management, Innsbruck University in Austria.

Abstract:
Migratory flows introduce new socio-cultural models, which carry certain semantic codes and change the socio-cultural system of the recipient society. The problem here is that migrant communities are forming as a relatively closed and separate part of society, where their usual and initial environments are being reproduced. This generates decreased interests in successful integration into traditional Dutch society. The introduction of very strict state migration policies have presented reactions, produced reciprocal protest movements, raise the conflict level in society and decreased tolerant behavior levels.

Thus, searching for new flexible integration strategies (economics and educational strategies) and their mechanisms (Information System framework), is proposed.

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