Margalith Kleijwegt

is a journalist for the news magazine Vrij Nederland and wrote Onzichtbare ouders – De buurt van Mohammed B. (Invisible parents – the neighbourhood of Mohammed B.). For this book she followed pupils from a ‘black’ secondary school in the west of Amsterdam. She wondered how the foreign parents of these children live, and what they expect from their children. The result of her research is a revealing and oppressive view of isolation, fear and ignorance. Margalith Kleijwegt has worked and lived in Brixton. As a social worker she observed several trouble spots in London. She is known as a reporter who explores sociological problems with an eye for the human story. She is working with her colleague Max van Weezel on a book about the multicultural society: Het land van haat en nijd (The Land of Hate and Spite).