Afro-Dutch or Black-Dutch are residents of the
Netherlands
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who are of Sub-Saharan African ancestry. The majority of Afro-Dutch in the continental Netherlands hail from the former and present Dutch overseas territories
Suriname and the former
Netherlands Antilles; now
Curaçao,
Aruba,
Bonaire,
Sint Maarten
Sint Maarten () is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the Caribbean. With a population of 41,486 as of January 2019 on an area of , it encompasses the southern 44% of the divided island of Saint Martin, while the nort ...
,
Sint Eustatius and
Saba Saba may refer to:
Places
* Saba (island), an island of the Netherlands located in the Caribbean Sea
* Şaba (Romanian for Shabo), a town of the Odesa Oblast, Ukraine
* Sabá, a municipality in the department of Colón, Honduras
* Saba (river), ...
. Of the approximately 500,000 Afro-Dutch people, about 300,000 people, or 60%, are from these territories. There is also a sizable population of
Cape Verdean,
Ghanaian
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,
Nigerian
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,
Somali,
Angolan and other African communities of more recent immigrants. The majority of Afro-Dutch people migrated to the Netherlands from the 1970s onwards, most of the recent migrants arriving either as political refugees seeking freedom or, more often, to escape regional conflicts, such as from Eritrea.
In July 2021, there were 731,444 people reported to be of African ancestry (4.18%, of a total population of 17,475,415 people).
Demographics
Source:
Notable Afro-Dutch people
Bibliography
* Appiah, Kwame Anthony and Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.(1999). Africana: the Encyclopedia of African and African American Experience. Basic Civitas Books, pp. 1413–1416. .
* Gowricharn, Ruben S. ( 2006 )
''Caribbean Transnationalism: Migration, Pluralization, and Social Cohesion'' Lexington Books.
References
See also
*
Zwarte Hollanders
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Dutch
Dutch commonly refers to:
* Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands
* Dutch people ()
* Dutch language ()
Dutch may also refer to:
Places
* Dutch, West Virginia, a community in the United States
* Pennsylvania Dutch Country
People E ...
Ethnic groups in the Netherlands
Caribbean diaspora by country