Vietnamese people in the Netherlands
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Vietnamese people in the Netherlands ( nl, Vietnamezen in Nederland; vi, Người Việt tại Hà Lan) form one of the smaller
overseas Vietnamese Overseas Vietnamese ( vi, người Việt hải ngoại, or ) refers to Vietnamese people who live outside Vietnam. There are approximately 5 million overseas Vietnamese, the largest community of whom live in the Vietnamese Americans, Unite ...
communities of Europe. They consist largely of refugees from the former
South Vietnam South Vietnam, officially the Republic of Vietnam ( vi, Việt Nam Cộng hòa), was a state in Southeast Asia that existed from 1955 to 1975, the period when the southern portion of Vietnam was a member of the Western Bloc during part of th ...
, Vietnamese born-citizens and their descendants (Dutch born-citizens of part or full Vietnamese origin).


History

The first Vietnamese boat people arrived in the Netherlands in 1977. In the early 1990s, after the fall of communist regimes all over Central and Eastern Europe, a group of about 400 Vietnamese—formerly guest workers in Czechoslovakia—fled to the Netherlands and sought asylum there. By May 1992, 300 still remained. The Vietnamese government, although it saw the asylum-seekers as guilty of a crime for having fled, offered assurances to the Dutch government that they would suffer no discrimination if repatriated.


Demographic characteristics

, statistics of the Dutch
Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek Statistics Netherlands, founded in 1899, is a Dutch governmental institution that gathers statistical information about the Netherlands. In Dutch it is known as the Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek (''Central Agency for Statistics''), often ...
showed: * 11,960 Vietnamese-born persons (5,623 men, 6,337 women) * 6,955 locally born persons of Vietnamese background (3,534 men, 3,421 women), of which: ** 1,027 persons with one parent also born locally (524 men, 503 women) ** 5,928 persons with both parents born abroad (3,010 men, 2,918 women) For a total of 18,915 persons (9,157 men, 9,758 women). This represented 46% growth over the 1996 total of 12,937 persons. Most of the growth was in the locally born segment of the population, whose numbers more than doubled from 3,366 persons over the period in question; the number of Vietnamese-born showed more modest growth of 25%, from 9,571 persons.


Religion

A part of Vietnamese people in the Netherlands are Buddhists. Pagode Van Hanh is one of the official Vietnamese Buddhist temples in the Netherlands. The temple is situated in
Nederhorst den Berg Nederhorst den Berg () is a village in the province of North Holland, Netherlands. It lies about 8 km northwest of Hilversum in the Vechtstreek area, near the Vecht river. Until 1 January 2002, it was a separate municipality; it is now part ...
, a small village in
Utrecht Utrecht ( , , ) is the List of cities in the Netherlands by province, fourth-largest city and a List of municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality of the Netherlands, capital and most populous city of the Provinces of the Netherlands, pro ...
. The temple is from the association Stichting Vietnamese Boeddhistische Samenwerking Nederland. Around thousand Vietnamese families are named as members. The two first parishes aimed at the Netherlands' Vietnamese Catholic community, the ''Allochtonen Missie van de Heilige Martelaren van Vietnam'' in Amersfoort and the ''Allochtonen Missie van de Heilige Moeder Maria'' in
Deventer Deventer (; Sallands: ) is a city and municipality in the Salland historical region of the province of Overijssel, Netherlands. In 2020, Deventer had a population of 100,913. The city is largely situated on the east bank of the river IJssel, bu ...
, were set up in 1994; at that time, there were estimated to be roughly 3,000 Vietnamese Catholics in the country.


Health issues

Of the first 541 Vietnamese refugees who arrived in the Netherlands, 16.6% tested positive for the presence of Hepatitis B surface antigen (
HBsAg HBsAg (also known as the Australia antigen) is the surface antigen of the hepatitis B virus (HBV). Its presence in blood indicates current hepatitis B infection. Structure and function The viral envelope of an enveloped virus has different sur ...
). Intestinal parasites were also common.


Cuisine


Vietnamese loempia

In the Netherlands a localised version of the '' Chả giò'' (or ''nem rán'') known as the ''Vietnamese loempia'' is typically sold on every Dutch market and in many Dutch snackbars and supermarkets. These ''Vietnamese loempia's'' were introduced during the mid-1980s and are typically served with a special sauce invented for the Dutch market as Dutch people are unfamiliar with fish sauce.


Notable individuals

* Nhung Dam (born 1984), actress and writer *
Chloe Nguyen Chloe (; ), also spelled Chloë, Chlöe, or Chloé, is a feminine name meaning "blooming" or "fertility" in Greek. The name ultimately derives, through Greek, from the Proto-Indo-European root ', which relates to the colors yellow and green. T ...
(born 1987), actress and television presenter *
Vincent Nguyen Vincent Nguyen (born Nguyễn Mạnh Hiếu on May 8, 1966) is an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Toronto. On November 6, 2009 Nguyen was appointed by Pope Benedict XVI as one of two new Auxiliary Bishops for the Archdiocese of Toronto alon ...
(born 1995), basketball player * Reiky de Valk (2000–2023), actor


See also

* Netherlands–Vietnam relations *
Vietnamese diaspora Overseas Vietnamese ( vi, người Việt hải ngoại, or ) refers to Vietnamese people who live outside Vietnam. There are approximately 5 million overseas Vietnamese, the largest community of whom live in the United States. The oldest ...
* Immigration to the Netherlands


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Further reading

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