„Holendrzy wbijają uchodźcom nóż w plecy”: Kader Abdolah o holenderskiej tolerancji
“The Dutch Stab Refugees in the Back”: Kader Abdolah on Dutch Tolerance

Summary/Abstract: This article explores Dutch tolerance as presented by Kader Abdolah, a Dutch writer of Iranian origin. Abdolah migrated to the Netherlands in 1988 as an adult man, and after a few years he started to write in Dutch. From 1996 to 2011, he contributed weekly columns to one of the leading Dutch newspapers, de Volkskrant, where he commented on the current political, social and cultural events in the Netherlands and in the world. His position as an outsider-insider makes him an interesting voice in the debate on the changing character of Dutch tolerance. Abdolah's literary and journalistic reactions to the changing immigration policy in the Netherlands and to the events impacting these changes will be discussed here.

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