Indians in the Netherlands
Indo-Caribbean, Surinamese people in the Netherlands, British Indo-Caribbean people |
Indians in the Netherlands are residents of Indian origin in the Netherlands. The majority of the people of Indian descent in the Netherlands are of Indo-Surinamese origin.[1] More recently the flow of emigrants from India has increased, as well as from Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago, mostly those married to Indo-Surinamese.
History
In 2017, 8,630 Indians immigrated to the Netherlands, making them the second largest recent immigrant group after the
As of 2019, about 48,724 people of Indian immigrant descent lived in the Netherlands.[6] Most of them live in the provinces of North Holland, South Holland and North Brabant.
From 2016 to 2022 the population of Indians in the Netherlands doubled from 32,682 to 65,399 (Note that this number excludes Indo-Surinamese).[7]
Indo-Surinamese
After the abolition of slavery in the Dutch colony of
Up until the independence of Suriname in 1975, all the Indo-Surinamese were formally part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and thus owned a Dutch passport. After the independence a significant portion of the Indo-Surinamese population migrated to the Netherlands, thereby retaining their Dutch passport. Currently there are more than 120,000 Indo-Surinamese living in the Netherlands, of which the majority, about 50,000, in The Hague and surroundings.[citation needed]
Indo-Surinamese are also known in both the Netherlands and Suriname by the Dutch term Hindoestanen, derived from the word Hindustani, lit., "someone from Hindustan".[9] Hence, when Indians migrated to Suriname they were referred to as Hindustanis, people of Indian origin.
Statistics
In December 2001, the High Level Committee on Indian Diaspora estimated the population of
Notable people
- Rattan Chadha, businessman
- Anice Das, speed skater
- Tanja Jadnanansing, politician
- Ram Labhaya Lakhina, entrepreneur and community leader
- Vinoodh Matadin, fashion photographer
- Mangesh Panchal, cricketer
- Anil Ramdas, columnist
- Tara Singh Varma, politician
- Ricardo Kishna, footballer
- Furdjel Narsingh, footballer
- Luciano Narsingh, footballer
- Kiran Bechan, footballer
See also
- India–Netherlands relations
- Hinduism in the Netherlands
- Indian diaspora
- Indo-Surinamese
- Romani people in the Netherlands
References
- ^ a b ""Indian Community in Netherlands"". Retrieved 17 November 2020.
- ^ "Het leven hier is beter dan in India". NRC. NRC.nl. 28 August 2019.
- ^ "Aantal Indiase kennismigranten verdubbeld". CBS.nl. 25 July 2019.
- ^ "Migranten in Nederland: 'Polen en Indiërs aan kop, dat komt door de markt'". RTL Nieuws. 3 January 2020.
- ^ "Een op de drie immigranten vertrekt binnen zes jaar". CBS.nl. 20 January 2003.
- ^ "Bevolking; leeftijd, migratieachtergrond, geslacht en regio, 1 januari". CBS. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
- ^ https://opendata.cbs.nl/statline/#/CBS/nl/dataset/37325/table
- ^ "Hindostanen in Suriname (in Dutch)". Outlook. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
- ISBN 9789051832167.
- ^ Report of the High Level Committee on the Indian Diaspora December 2001.
- ^ "CBS StatLine - Population; sex, age, origin and generation, 1 January". statline.cbs.nl. Retrieved 15 September 2016.
- ^ Embassy of India: Indian Community in Netherlands.
- ^ NICCT: Growing Indian Community in The Netherlands.