[nasional_list] [ppiindia] Dutch to test immigrants arriving in the Netherlands
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Dutch to test immigrants arriving in the Netherlands
02/20/2006 21:30
The Netherlands will roll out the next phase of its tough integration
policy next month when it introduces compulsory Dutch language and culture
tests at 138 embassies, the immigration minister said Monday. The 30-minute
computerized exam will determine if newcomers are prepared for Dutch life, said
Rita Verdonk. "If you pass, you're more than welcome. It is in the interest of
Dutch society and those concerned."
The program begins March 15 at Dutch embassies around the world. Verdonk
is the architect of some of the government's toughest measures to stem new
immigration and to expel applicants who have been rejected, putting her at the
center of the national debate over the traditional image of Dutch tolerance.
"What's tolerance? I think tolerance has become confused with
indifference," she responded during a rare meeting with foreign reporters. "As
far as image goes, I'm here to protect the public interests and I don't think
our image will suffer," she said.
The exam is intended to help people, who plan to spend at least five
years in the Netherlands, go to school, get jobs and feel at home in Dutch
culture, the minister said. Figures were not immediately available on how much
the measure will cost.
"We have about 600,000 to 700,000 people in the Netherlands who don't
have a grasp of Dutch language. They have a social and economic disadvantage.
Language is the minimum requirement to stay," she told the Foreign Press
Association. Temporary foreign employees and nationals from 38 countries,
mostly European Union citizens, are exempt from the pre-entry test, but will
have to take courses after being admitted to the Netherlands. Exceptions also
have been made for nationals of the United States, Australia, New Zealand,
Canada, Japan and Switzerland.
Other pending legislation may introduce penalties for long-term foreign
residents, some of them with Dutch nationality, who fail language or culture
classes, Verdonk said.
Earlier laws, generally targeting immigrants from Morocco, Turkey and the
Netherlands Antilles, raised the age for bringing over a spouse or partner to
21 from 18, and required income of at least 120 percent of the national minimum
wage. The new "civic integration examination" will affect the families of large
numbers of immigrants invited to the Netherlands in the 1960s and 1970s to fill
a labor shortage.
Verdonk dismissed assertions that the policies discriminate against
Moroccans and Turks or that they may damage the country's reputation as an open
nation. "We have a problem in Dutch society. We have been too naive for too
long and measures were needed to do away with the backlog," she said. "Crime by
Moroccan and Antillean youths was a taboo subject for years, and now we can
talk about it."
European Union nations largely praise the Dutch policies, Verdonk said,
while Moroccans and Turks told her they are happy with the policies and want
her "to keep up the good work." Immigrant families, often isolated from the
employment market because they don't speak Dutch or face discrimination,
account for 33 percent of the country's poor although they make up less than 20
percent of the population. Unemployment rates for nonnative youths are in some
cases three time those of native youths, reports the AP.
N.U.
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