The Position of the Turkish and Moroccan Second Generation in Amsterdam and Rotterdam. Ed. Maurice Crul and Liesbeth Heering. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2008. P. 192. Pbk. ISBN 978-90-8964-061-1. €34.50.

Comparison in the social sciences is an almost commonsense activity and is at the same time one of the most complex theoretical and epistemological exercises. Data need comparison almost by definition. This is what our knowledge of social phenomena rests upon. At the same time, comparing data is a tricky business…