IS INTEGRATION AND EMPOWERMENT OF THE EXCLUDED NEEDED?
Saba Golchehr
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Rotterdam On March 22nd 2007 Minister Vogelaar of the Ministry of Living, Neighbourhoods and Integration (Wonen, Wijken en Integratie) announced a list of forty problem neighbourhoods in the Netherlands. In this list seven of these neighbourhoods are located in Rotterdam. That is the highest concentration of problem neighbourhoods compared to the rest of the cities in the Netherlands.
Fig. 4.1 Fourty problem neighbourhoods in the Netherlands (KEI - kenniscentrum stedelijke vernieuwing, 2007)
Furthermore in February 2009 a list of the top twenty problem neighbourhoods by VROM (Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment) was published. Among these neighbourhoods eight of them are located in Rotterdam. Compared to other cities, two in Amsterdam, two in Utrecht, two in The Hague and one in various other cities, this is a dramatic number. One-third of the inhabitants of Rotterdam is living in one of the problem neighbourhoods of the city.
Fig. 4.2 Problem neighbourhoods in Rotterdam (KEI - kenniscentrum stedelijke vernieuwing, 2007)
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