Book Review: Geheel ontdaan van onbaatzuchtigheid: het Nederlandse toelatingsbeleid voor vluchtelingen en displaced persons van 1945 tot 1956 = Both selfish and selfless: the Dutch admission policy for refugees and displaced persons from 1945 to 1956
| DOI | 10.1177/092405190001800115 |
| Date | 01 March 2000 |
| Published date | 01 March 2000 |
| Subject Matter | Book Review |
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citizenship. Other chapters focus on the role
of
the European Parliament, the European
Court
of
Justice, and the European Court
of
Human Rights.
Geheel ontdaan van onbaatzuchtigheid: het Nederlandse toelatingsbeleid voor
vluchtelingen en displaced persons van 1945 tot 1956 =Both selfish and selfless: the
Dutch admission policyfor refugees and displaced persons from 1945 to
1956/
Corrie K.
Berghuis. - Amsterdam: Thela Thesis, 1999. - x, 299 p.
ISBN:
905170495
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On the basis
of
research in the records of the Dutch Government concerning the period
1945-1956, this Ph.D. thesis shows the influence of the Second World War on refugee
policy in the Netherlands. The national Government's policy in this period assumes a
harder attitude than the policy in the pre-war period, primarily because
of
the admission
of thousands
of
refugees in the 1930s, the consequences of the Second World War (chaos,
collapse) and the Cold War (fear
of
communism, relationship with the USSR); but also
because of a lack
of
initiative (following social movements, international and private
asylum applications, economic powers), a domestic approach (overpopulation, housing
shortage, a stream
of
repatriating people), a lack of purely humanitarian policy, free
of
interests, and the conception of an asylum policy that forms the basis for the modem
refugee system.
Gelijke toegang tot de arbeid voor gehandicapten: een grondrechtelijke en
rechtsvergelijkende analyse =Equal access to employmentfor people with disabilities: an
analysis from a human rights and comparative law perspective /Aart Hendriks. -
Deventer: Kluwer, 2000. - xxii, 375 p.
ISBN:
90268
358 68
In the Netherlands, as in many other countries, people with disabilities are most commonly
dependent on benefits, instead of an income generated themselves through paid
employment. This raises the question
of
the extent to which the State is obliged to take
measures to ensure equal job opportunities for disabled persons. This Ph.D. thesis focuses
on the following research questions. To what extent do fundamental rights, as laid down
in the Dutch Constitution and international treaties, require the State to ensure equal access
to employment for people with disabilities? To what extent does Dutch law guarantee
equal job opportunities for disabled persons? Can foreign law - notably US law - serve
as a source of inspiration for Dutch law with respect to the rights
of
disabled job
applicants in the private labour market? On the basis of an abridged appraisal of the
answers to these questions some recommendations are formulated, directed to the Dutch
State, which aim at improvement of the legal position of people with disabilities in the
pre-employment stage.
Hostile to democracy: the movement system and political repression in Uganda /Peter
Bouckaert. - New York: Human Rights Watch, 1999. - x, 163 p.
ISBN: 1-56432-239-4
When Yoweri Museveni and his National Resistance Army/Movement (NRAIM) took the
reigns of power in Uganda in 1986, after a five-year-long guerrilla war, Uganda was a
country infamous for massive civilian killings and other human rights abuses on an
enormous scale. During the military dictatorship
of
Idi Amin (1971-1979) and after the
return to power
of
Milton Obote in 1980, hundreds of thousands
of
civilians were killed
and many more were subjected to arbitrary arrest, beatings, torture, and other abuse.
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