Multiculturalism in Netherlands since 2005

Diploma thesis is focused on multiculturalism in Netherlands and was inspired by political discussion on cohabitation of minorities and mayor societies in Europe. The issue of assimilation contra diversity acceptation is not anyhow new, but inflection of multiculturalism at European level during the last couple of years re-opened the issue of application the multicultural theory in social affairs. The following text is summarizing new trends in multicultural theory and those are confronted with situation in Netherlands since 2005 mainly in areas of access to national Dutch citizenship, education and labour market conditions. The study shows that there were no significant deviations from multicultural trend in Dutch society