Suriname Emigration and Immigration

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Suriname Emigration and Immigration

"Emigration" means moving out of a country. "Immigration" means moving into a country.
Emigration and immigration sources list the names of people leaving (emigrating) or arriving (immigrating) in the country. These sources may be passenger lists, permissions to emigrate, or records of passports issued. The information in these records may include the emigrants’ names, ages, occupations, destinations, and places of origin or birthplaces. Sometimes they also show family groups.

Immigration into Suriname

  • Europeans arrived in the 16th century, with the Dutch establishing control over much of the country's current territory by the late 17th century. During the Dutch colonial period, Suriname was a lucrative source of sugar, its plantation economy driven by African slave labor and, after abolition of slavery in 1863, indentured servants from Asia.
  • In 1954, Suriname became one of the constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. On 25 November 1975, Suriname left the Kingdom to become an independent state, but continues to maintain close economic, diplomatic, and cultural ties.[1]

Emigration From Suriname

KNOMAD Statistics: Emigrants: 263,300. Top destination countries: the Netherlands, France, the United States, Guyana, Curaçao, Aruba, Canada, Sint Maarten (Dutch part), Brazil, the Dominican Republic[2]

Records of Suriname Emigrants in Their Destination Nations

Dark thin font green pin Version 4.png One option is to look for records about the ancestor in the country of destination, the country they immigrated into. See links to Wiki articles about immigration records for major destination countries below. Additional Wiki articles for other destinations can be found at Category:Emigration and Immigration Records.

References

  1. "Suriname", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suriname, accessed August 2021.
  2. "Suriname", at KNOMAD, the Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development, , accessed August 2021