Abstract
This paper discusses the position of Moroccan guest workers and their descendants in Dutch society and the emergence of a Dutch Moroccan identity. The paper explores this new identity by looking at the way it is constructed in the media. It focusses on the use of “new media” (especially the World Wide Web) to establish public places in which this Dutch Moroccan identity is expressed and developed and examines how Websites contribute to the social construction of that identity. Three Websites run by and for Dutch Moroccans are scrutinized: Naffer-nl, Maroc.nl, and Maghreb.nl. Methodological issues are addressed before assessing whether an analysis of content pages and forums on these Websites points at the emergence of a symbolic ethnicity, of a community, or of a minority and at the existence of transnational networks.
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