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===Suriname=== | |||
====Suriname Online Sources==== | |||
*[[Suriname Emigration and Immigration]] – Wiki page with additional larger databases which also include Netherlands | |||
====Suriname Background==== | |||
*Dutch migrant settlers in search of a better life started arriving in Suriname (previously known as Dutch Guiana) in the 19th century with farmers arriving from the Dutch provinces of '''Gelderland and Groningen'''.<ref name="diaspora"/> | |||
*In 1683, Suriname was sold to the Dutch West India Company. The colony developed an agricultural economy based on '''African slavery'''. The Netherlands abolished slavery in 1863 and later imported '''indentured labor from the British Raj and the Dutch East Indies''' to keep the economy going. | |||
*Internal self governance was granted in 1954 and full independence in 1975. The prospect of independence prompted many to migrate to the Netherlands. Political instability and economic decline after independence resulted in even more migration to the Netherlands. | |||
*The Surinamese community is now almost as large as half of the population in the country itself (about 350,000).<ref name="DAC"?> | |||
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