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Organisational Patterns: Surinamese and Turkish Associations in Amsterdam, 1960–1990

This article compares the organisations of two groups of immigrants in Amsterdam—the Surinamese and the Turks. It documents the numbers of Surinamese and Turkish organisations and traces the process of organisational differentiation in each group. It then analyses the evolution of Surinamese and Turkish organisational patterns to see in what way they differ, and why this is the case. It shows that, contrary to expectation, it is not just group characteristics that explains the different organisational patterns of Surinamese and Turks in Amsterdam. Although we look at two groups in the same city, the local opportunity structure differs as well. Local policy reinforces the main driving forces behind the Surinamese and Turkish organising process. The development of the organisations of both groups should therefore be explained by a combination of three factors: the different (local) opportunity structure, different group characteristics and the organisational traditions in the country of origin.