This chapter is organised into five sections. Section 1 deals with the notions of
language, nation, and citizenship, also from a historical perspective, and with the
European public and political discourse on immigrant minority groups in terms of
‘foreigners’ and ‘integration’. Taken from this European perspective, the Dutch
discourse on ‘newcomers’ is addressed in Section 2. Newcomers to the Netherlands have to
pass three stages of testing regimes, en route from admission to the country (toelating)
through integration (inburgering) to citizenship (naturalisatie). These three successive
testing regimes are outlined and evaluated in Section 3. In Section 4, a validity
analysis of the Nationale Inburgeringstest is carried out in terms of its contents and
in terms of an empirical analysis of what Dutch citizens actually know about what
newcomers are expected to know about the Netherlands. Conclusions and discussion are
offered in Section 5.
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