Paul Scheffer is a Dutch author. He was a professor at the University of Amsterdam from 2003 to 2011 and is now professor of European studies at Tilburg University. He published the article ‘The Multicultural Drama’ that ignited the controversial debate about integration and immigration in the Netherlands in 2000. 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. The central idea of this book is that immigration always has been and is a process of alienation for both the newcomers and natives.