NYT: On Dutch game show, competing for cash before being deported

It sounds like a cruel joke: a game show in the Netherlands that pits failed asylum seekers against one another in a test of their mastery of the country’s language, history and culture, with the prize being a little extra pocket money to take back home after the Dutch government shows all of them the door.


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