SCALING UP THE CITY THE WAY TURKISH AND (SURINAM-) HINDUSTAN SELF-ORGANISATIONS EMBED THE HAGUE IN AN ETHNIC NETWORK BY RANESH BALLA Cover photo: made by Gerd Altmann, retrieved from Pixabay (free of copyrights). i 2017 [SCALING UP THE CITY] THE WAY TURKISH AND (SURINAM-) HINDUSTAN SELF-ORGANISATIONS EMBED THE HAGUE IN AN ETHNIC NETWORK Ranesh Balla Globalisation, Migration and Development Human Geography and Spatial Planning Nijmegen School of Management Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands s4616464
[email protected] - Supervisor: Walle, drs. J.M. van de (Jackie) Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands - Supervisor: Gestel, A.F.J.C. van (Ton) The Hague Municipality, the Netherlands ii iii ‘houses make a town, but citizens make a city’ - Rousseau ‘exclusion in one network, means inclusion in another network’ Monder Ram - iv v PREFACE It is a pleasure to present you my research: Scaling up the city: the way Turkish and (Surinam-) Hindustan self-organisations embed The Hague in an ethnic network. Reading this title you could take two positions. Is this a subject we (the society) should want to know or this is interesting! Speaking about ethnicities is always questionable. People are quickly biased and could have xenophobia sentiments towards the other. However, the opposite may also happen: getting to know what ethnicity means across the borders. Ethnicity can be served as a – very seriously taken – playground to explore connections, overlap and discrepancies between the applied, the creative and practical outcome on the one hand and the structured, analytical, thorough and theoretical approach of (social) sciences on the other hand. Both sides share a common space where ethnicity is an actor influenced into.