TY - THES AB - Anti-Discrimination Bureaus in the Netherlands developed from ad-hoc action groups to professional organisations in the 1980s and 1990s. So far, no research has been done on the effects of this institutionalisation on the identity of the Anti-Discrimination Bureaus. Therefore, this paper studies two cases of Dutch Anti-Discrimination Organisations, an Anti-Discrimination Bureau and the national expertise centre for Anti-Discrimination Bureaus. Based on commemorative publications, produced on the occasion of the organisations' anniversaries, the self-positioning of the Anti-Discrimination Organisations in relation to people who experience discrimination is analysed. It is argued that the investigated organisations created narratives about a "situated neutrality" to describe themselves as professional organisations. This "situated neutrality" implies a professional distance to their "clients". Concurrently, both organisations insist on advocating victims of discrimination. This ambivalence allows other political actors to criticise the position of Anti-Discrimination Bureaus in relation to people who experience discrimination. DA - 2009 KW - Soziale Bewegung KW - Institutionalisierung KW - Organisationssoziologie KW - Niederlande KW - Diskriminierung KW - Bekämpfung LA - ger PY - 2009 TI - "Die Nüchternheit in der Arbeitsweise hat ihre Früchte abgeworfen" : Identitätspolitik und Institutionalisierung von Antidiskriminierungsbüros in den Niederlanden UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:361-15914 Y2 - 2024-11-22T06:14:09 ER -