And of course, no poll is ever done regarding western immigrants because we're all expats in highly paid jobs.
Har.

By CW | September 9, 2009 12:28 PM

this has nothing to do with temporary contracts , the Dutch nation is a racist nation , this is a fact why dont you just stop lying and say it out loud that every immigrant in Holand is not welcome anymore? last week, it started to look like we are the virus which eating the Dutch economy - does South Africa decades ago ring a bell?

By zoz | September 9, 2009 2:46 PM

Ariaansz, who works for a part of the UWV which specialises in helping ethnic minority university and hbo college graduates find work, said discrimination appeared to be playing a role.

'I do not believe employers are deliberately shutting out certain workers, but they are more reluctant to take on people with a non-western background due to either preconceptions or a lack of experience with different cultures,' he told the Volkskrant.

My wife is a victim of this fact.

By ks | September 9, 2009 3:56 PM

Discrimination is a word which has taken on a negative connotation, yet everyone of us practices it every day, largely in a positive manner.

Tribe, kinship and a sense of commonality will not disappear simply because a few aren't aware they exist.

By Ron Slade Sr. | September 9, 2009 4:18 PM

also zoz if u suffer so much as u appear to claim, WHY U STILL IN NL lol, i find Dutch people to be among the nicest in Europe, try England then you will have something to complain about

By adhd | September 9, 2009 4:28 PM

Unfortunately, this has been my experience as well. Non-white people really aren't welcome here and while I'd love to return to my home country, it's very difficult without a job to earn the money needed. Of course, not every single Dutch person is exactly the same way but the people who make the decisions and hire employees are usually going to favour Dutch and/or white applicants.

By Chi | September 9, 2009 7:11 PM

In all fairness to the world citizens, real world history teaches us that there are more dutch (and their ethnic desendants) living and working beyond rather than within the european borders. The obvious question is that, would the dutch living beyond the european borders willing the repatriate home back to europe or is that issue non-negotiable ? (off course, its always been a one sided story and that sucks !). The conclusion of this one-sided, subjective journalism will inevitably reinforce personal opinions of the originator (i.e. reporter or editor), however it does very little to the development of ‘investigative journalism’. In this 21st century, the success of the provision and supply of global business, multinational-services and free world markets, depends on the global demands which in turn, eventually effect local flow of workforce, services and resources. The obvious message in this case is that thinking (national) local and acting (multi-national) global, may work politically for attracting votes during national elections, however not for the sake of global business in a free world market. Advise to reporter and editor of the news, you can not have it both ways, local and global business depend on the give and take equation of life, otherwise the local (national) business becomes a parasite on the world (global) free markets, however the natural free market forces do not allow this type of free flow only in one direction only and indefinitely, and as a result the whole world yields. Spare a thought for the dutch communities living and working beyond the borders of europe, are your own kind willing to repatriate back to Europe ?.

By Small Brother | September 9, 2009 7:56 PM

Oh, come on, guys! If people want to work, they will get work. The NL has a lot of goodies, if you're willing to not just sit on your ass and wait to get paid for being pretty...or ugly, depending on the genes. That's for the immigrants.
As for the Moroccan...I kinda have the feeling they love being on well-fare, since work IS hard. After dark, you see a lot of them just hanging around, being loud and with nerve. So, excuse me for not whimpering over NL racism or anything, since is BY FAR one of the most cosmopolite countries in the world.
And South Africa got their payback when they totally fkd up the Dutch language.

Yours truly

By EastEuropean | September 9, 2009 8:19 PM

hmmm am not amused with dutch racist style..I gat a friend from Africa she went for a job interview to my shock they told her she cant get the job coz she dint speak arabic..yet they saw her cv but because she used her mans name they dint know she was aint real dutch talk of recist..God knows we non Dutch ..makes us think this is Sout Africa ..!

By mimi | September 9, 2009 9:15 PM

Small Brother.. I am glad you brought up the Dutch who live outside of EU borders. There was a program on NOS journaal Dutch documentary Yesterday afternoon of the millions of Dutch immigrants that live in the United States from 1, 2, 3, 4 generations since they are celebrating the 400 year so called friendship with the USA. One Dutch citizen was investigating telephone books in most states of the USA and found in all telephone books, nearly one third of Dutch last names in each state and cities of those states, are of Dutch descent. Some states have even more People with the background of Dutch descent. Like Iowa, Minnesota, Michigan have a great many Dutch communites that are almost only people with a Dutch background. This is litterly millions of Dutch descendants and more recent `Dutch immigrants that live in the United states alone. There are many Dutch families who live in Canada and Australia. What did it cost for all these generations of immigrants from the Netherlands? There Netherlands government is getting very nasty about the cost of immigrants but let us be more open and fair and lets do all the counting the right way. If we compare how many Dutch emigrated out of the Netherlands over the years and add it up, the Netherlands as well as other Eu countries and how much they have cost the USA, CANADA and Australia over many years and wars, heartaches and not to mention the Natives they killed and stole land from we might as well get into another world war to shut the miserable Dutch and Europe up once and for all. They fail to mention all the rich resources they have also stolen from Africa and other countries while they were outside of their own borders, dictating out other countries should live under their rules many years ago. Shall we make the Nethrlands and europe pay it all back if they keep bickering about immigration? I vote YES!

By sandra | September 11, 2009 2:21 PM

It is true to say that the Dutch labour market is very racist - that is in part because of the legal classification system and because of the racial profiling and investigations that employers "covertly" conduct on would be employees, much like France.

I recently graduated from a UK university with a law degree, being Dutch, "half bloedje" - half Dutch l am also classed as allochtoon, and l do look Middle Eastern as my mother comes from there. It would be very difficult for me to find employment in the normal sections of the Dutch employment market, which are reserved for whites as in government, in multinational corporations and the locomotive of the Dutch economy the SME sector and high tech sector which are all exclusively Dutch.

Dutch employees are well looked after, and build up good pensions and benefits - but non-Dutch Allochtoon employees are unable to stay in their jobs for long they don't. Racism and secret racial profiling is the norm in Holland.

The only possibility for me is to find work in the sprawling off shore sector where foreigners work and where the benefits are less than stellar. However if l complain l will get in trouble with the police, or lose my job - if l could find one...

By ex-jan doedens | October 18, 2009 9:43 PM

I think the problem is, the journalist didn't display the complete profile of the unemployed workers. Why didn't they just plainly mention the 2 profiles which contribute the highest rank of unemployment without further mentioned non-westerner? While the report lacking information of other non-western immigrants' profile which could be in a better off position such as ones from India, Indonesia, China etc.

[Editor's note: the statistics are not broken down in to such racial details.]

By Caroline | February 8, 2010 12:46 AM