Frank van Tubergen

TL;DR: This paper found that ethnic majority youth in England, Germany, Netherlands and Sweden have very few ties to ethnic minority peers, either in the neighbourhood or at school, and that both majority and minority groups exhibit a preference to befriend peers from their own ethnic group.

TL;DR: Nijhof is ontevreden met de "afstandelijkheid" which volgens hem “veel Nederlands sociologisch onderzoek van de laatste jaren” kenmerkt as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of denomination and religious composition of municipalities on suicide in the Netherlands has been investigated using individual level data on suicides, and it was shown that for every denomination in a municipality the likelihood of committing suicide decreases with the proportion of religious persons in that municipality.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the online visibility and activities of all (478) mosques in the Netherlands and found evidence to suggest that Salafist mosques, which tend to have a strict ideology, are more active on Twitter and YouTube, and also attract a larger share of followers on Facebook than non-Salafists mosques.

TL;DR: This article examined the role of the country of origin of adolescents and their classroom peers in the assimilation of attitudes towards homosexuality and found that the attitude towards homosexuality in classroom peers and their country-of-origin was positively associated with attitudes toward homosexuality of respondents in the first wave but had no effect on subsequent changes in these attitudes over a two-year period.