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===Suriname Emigration=== | ===Suriname Emigration=== | ||
The choice of becoming Surinamese or Dutch citizens in the years leading up to Suriname's independence in 1975 led to a mass migration to the Netherlands. This migration continued in the period immediately after independence and during military rule in the 1980s and for largely economic reasons extended throughout the 1990s. The Surinamese community in the Netherlands numbered 350,300 as of 2013. Most have a Dutch passport and the majority have been successfully integrated into Dutch society.<ref>"Surinamese people in the Netherlands", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surinamese_people_in_the_Netherlands, accessed 24 April 2021.</ref> | The choice of becoming Surinamese or Dutch citizens in the years leading up to Suriname's independence in 1975 led to a mass migration to the Netherlands. This migration continued in the period immediately after independence and during military rule in the 1980s and for largely economic reasons extended throughout the 1990s. The Surinamese community in the Netherlands numbered 350,300 as of 2013. Most have a Dutch passport and the majority have been successfully integrated into Dutch society.<ref>"Surinamese people in the Netherlands", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surinamese_people_in_the_Netherlands, accessed 24 April 2021.</ref> | ||
===Amsterdam Immigration=== | |||
*In the 16th and 17th century, non-Dutch immigrants to Amsterdam were mostly '''Huguenots, Flemings, Sephardi Jews and Westphalians'''. Huguenots came after the Edict of Fontainebleau in 1685, while the Flemish Protestants came during the Eighty Years' War. The Westphalians came to Amsterdam mostly for economic reasons – their influx continued through the 18th and 19th centuries. | |||
*The first mass immigration in the 20th century was by people from '''Indonesia''', who came to Amsterdam after the independence of the Dutch East Indies in the 1940s and 1950s. | |||
*In the 1960s, '''guest workers from Turkey, Morocco, Italy, and Spain''' emigrated to Amsterdam. | |||
*After the independence of Suriname in 1975, a large wave of '''Surinamese''' settled in Amsterdam, mostly in the Bijlmer area. | |||
*In the 1970s and 1980s, many 'old' Amsterdammers moved to ''''new' cities like Almere and Purmerend''', prompted by the third planological bill of the Dutch government. This bill promoted suburbanisation and arranged for new developments in so-called "groeikernen", literally cores of growth. Young professionals and artists moved into neighbourhoods de Pijp and the Jordaan abandoned by these Amsterdammers. | |||
*The non-Western immigrants settled mostly in the social housing projects in Amsterdam-West and the Bijlmer. Today, people of non-Western origin make up approximately one-third of the population of Amsterdam, and more than 50% of the city' s children. <ref>"Amsterdam: Immigration", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterdam#Immigration, accessed 25 April 2021.</ref> | |||
==For Further Reading== | ==For Further Reading== | ||