Paul Scheffer

Paul Scheffer  link (Author, academic)
Born	3 September 1954 Nijmegen, Netherlands
Nationality	Dutch
Alma mater	University of Amsterdam
Interests	multiculturalism, immigration
Party	Dutch Labour Party
Double Bilderberger politician and author who wrote on migration and integration.

Paul Scheffer is a Dutch author who has written about migration and integration of immigrants.

Education

In 1972 Scheffer took the final exam at the Kees Boekeschool in Bilthoven. In his student years he became a member of the Communist Party, changing later to the "mainstream" Labour Party (PvdA). From 1978 he worked as a journalist, including as a correspondent in Paris and Warsaw^[spooky?]. In 1986 he graduated in political science at the University of Amsterdam.

Career

In the 1980s, he criticized the Inter-Church Peace Council (ICCPR), because it did not focus enough on dissidents in the Eastern European countries. After the fall of the Berlin wall, according to the then revealed Stasi files on ICCPR employees, the ICCPR turned out to have secretly focused intensively from the early 1980s on contacts with dissident in eastern Europe.

Scheffer worked between 1986 and 1992 for the Wiardi Beckman Foundation, aa think tank of the PvdA. Scheffer is also a prominent member of the Dutch Labour Party (PvdA).

He was a professor at the Universiteit van Amsterdam between 2003 and 2011; he then became professor of European studies at Tilburg University, until 2021. P

Until 2021, he held the position of Professor of European Studies at Tilburg University.

Between 2022-2024, he was a member of the State Commission on Demographic Developments 2050.

In 2025,

I grew up with the idea that Israel first of all embodies the perspective of the victims," confessed Paul Scheffer. 'It always takes effort to see the other side of the story, even after many visits and conversations over the past forty years. Yet there is no escape: the anger of especially younger generations about the war in Gaza is not only understandable, but also justified.'

Bibliography

In 2000, he wrote an essay titled Het multiculturele drama (approximate translation: "The Multicultural Drama”), which was highly influential in shaping the debate on multiculturalism and immigration in the Netherlands.

His 2007 book, Het land van aankomst, was published in English in 2011 as "Immigrant Nations", and deals with the overlaps between multiculturalism in the Netherlands and immigration to the Netherlands. relying on the analyses of the neoconservative Bernard Lewis, the central idea of this book is that "immigration always has been and is a process of alienation for both the newcomers and the natives".