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This thesis seeks to analyze and understand how crime and migration to the Netherlands are being used as an income strategy by underclass youngsters from Curacao. Many underclass youngsters on Curacao grow up in poverty and receive improper education. Some of them even drop out of school to financially support the household. With such a bad start of their lives, many of them are bound to fail. Most of these youngsters choose crime as an income strategy because they cannot get legal employment. Some of them choose migrating to the Netherlands as an income strategy and others combine these two...

Ultima Thule--the island of Spitsbergen located between Greenland, Norway, and the North Pole, was once considered the very -end of the world.- Sixty percent of its sparsley settled land mass--mountains, moors and fjords--is covered in perma-ice. Spitsbergen today is a sensitive site in the strategically delicate Arctic Sea, with the interests of the major powers colliding there. The Romantic beauty is impervious to this state of things. And Pyramiden, the coal mining town operated by the Soviet Union from 1929 to 1992 contributes to the Romantic feel: the ruins of a boomtown caught in the...

Ultima Thule - das Ende der Welt. So nannte man im früheren Sprachgebrauch Spitzbergen, die nördlichste Inselgruppe im Polarmeer. Eine Reise dorthin und in die von den Russen einst dort betriebene Kohlebergbaustadt »Pyramiden« beschreiben Simone Sassen und Cees Nooteboom in unserem Buch. Es sind romantische Blicke auf menschenleere, fast vegetationslose Landschaften, Hochmoore, Gletscher, Berge, ewiges Eis, Fjorde - mehr als der Norden, sozusagen die Idee des Nordens. Dann, wie eine Fata Morgana, die Stille einer verlassenen Stadt, stillgelegte Industrieanlagen, verlassene Wohnungen, ein...