The Uninvited Migrant, the ‘Autochtoon’ and the ‘Allochtoon’ in the Netherlands

Political integration often comes with a process of nation building. With European integration, old borders between member states indeed lose their meaning and only Europe’s outside borders remain significant. Yet, nation building on an EU scale is not in evidence. Rather integration seems to produce uncertain identities. However, failing a European identity at least it can be underlined who the ‘others’ are.