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  • AMV location
    AMV locatie — (Small) accommodation location for unaccompanied minor immigrants (AMV).

  • Asylum seeker
    Asielzoeker — A refugee who applied for a residence permit.

  • Asylum seekers centre
    Asielzoekerscentrum (AZC) — Regular and (often) permanent accommodation location for asylum seekers.

  • Central Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers
    Centraal Orgaan Opvang Asielzoekers (COA) — An independent organization that takes care of the accommodation and guidance of asylum seekers.

  • COA location
    COA-locatie — Locations managed by the COA, which include all types of locations asylum seekers stay at.

  • Crisis emergency location
    Crisisnoodopvang — Temporary accommodation for asylum seekers, meant for a maximum stay of 1 week.

  • (Cognitive) Bias
    The tendency to act in an irrational way due to our limited ability to process information objectively. It can cloud our judgment and affect how clearly we perceive situations, people, or potential risks.

  • Discrimination
    Discrimination is treating people differently, disfavoring, or excluding them based on personal characteristics.

  • Emergency location
    Noodopvang — Temporary accommodation location for asylum seekers

  • Emigrant
    Someone who moves out of the Netherlands.

  • (Ethnic/ Racial) Profiling
    Any action undertaken for safety, security, or public protection that relies on racist stereotypes rather than on reasonable suspicion.

  • Grounds for discrimination
    Personal characteristics that people base discrimination on.

  • Immigrant
    Someone who moves to the Netherlands.

  • Immigration and Citizenship Department
    Immigratie- en Naturalisatiedienst (IND) — A government organisation that assesses requests of people to stay in the Netherlands.

  • Interpersonal discrimination
    Discrimination against people or groups, by other people.

  • Intersectionality
    The combination of characteristics that can contribute to disparities.

  • Microaggressions

    A comment, instance or action that intentionally or indirectly express prejudice or discrimination against a member of marginalised group.

  • Migrant
    Anyone who moves to another country.

  • Prejudice
    (Negative) feelings about people, because they are part of one or more (stigmatised) diverse groups, without getting to know the person.

  • Racism
    Discrimination based on skin colour, place of origin, nationality, or religion.

  • Refugee
    Vluchteling — Someone who fled out of fear for prosecution, war, or violence

  • Residence permit

    A document that gives the right to stay in the Netherlands for a fixed or temporary period.

  • Status holder
    Statushouder — A refugee who has a residence permit.

  • Stereotype
    Generalisation and oversimplification of reality, that reduces a group to a cliché image.

  • Systemic / Institutional discrimination
    The policies, rules, and processes within an organisation lead to inequality.

 
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