ABSTRACT
Between September 2003 and November 2007, when I was doing preparatory research, conducting interviews and participant observation for this thesis, the political and media debate about Islam, Muslims in the Netherlands, and Dutch-Moroccans continued. When I was fine-tuning the final words of this thesis, Jan Dirk de Jong published his dissertation on (criminal) group-behaviour of young Dutch-Moroccans in the Amsterdam district Overtoomse Veld (De Jong 2007). Apparently, academic interest in this topic is still very much present and De Jong’s publication received a lot of media attention.
