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Moroccan-Dutch Total population 355,034[1] 2.2% of the Dutch population
Regions with significant populations Randstad - Languages Dutch, Moroccan Arabic (60-70%), Berber languages (40-50%)[3]
Religion The terms Moroccan-Dutch or Dutch-Moroccans refer to immigrants from Morocco to the Netherlands and their descendants.[4][5] They are one of the larger allochtoon groups, making up 10.4% of the country's total population of foreign background.[6]
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Migration history
Moroccans were not much represented in the first major wave of migration to the Netherlands from the mid-1940s to the mid-1960s, which consisted mostly of people from the Netherlands' former colonies. However, they began to show up in large numbers during the second wave; between 1965 and 1973, one hundred thousand Turks and Moroccans came to the Netherlands, and a further 170,000 from 1974 to 1986.[7] Earlier arrivals consisted of guest workers, whose recruitment and admission was governed by a bilateral treaty signed in 1969.[8] However, the guests did not return home.[9] From the 1970s, the number arriving under family reunification schemes became more significant.[10] Between six and eight-tenths originated from the mountainous Rif region.[11]
Demographic characteristics
As of 2009[update], statistics of the Dutch Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek with regards to people of Moroccan origin showed:
- 166,774 persons of first-generation background (88,084 men, 78,690 women)
- 174,754 persons of second-generation background (88,563 men, 86,191 women), of which:
- 23,255 persons with one parent born in the Netherlands (11,911 men, 11,344 women)
- 151,499 persons with both parents born outside of the Netherlands (76,652 men, 74,847 women)
For a total of 353,987 persons (176,647 men, 164,881). This represented roughly 51% growth over the 1996 total of 225,088 persons. The population has shown a year-on-year increase every year since then.[12]
Notable people
Main article: List of Moroccan Dutch people- Ahmed Aboutaleb, first Moroccan-Dutch mayor of Rotterdam[13]
- Ali B, hip-hop artist[14]
- Badr Hari, kickboxer[15]
- Ibrahim Affelay, football (soccer) player.
- Abdelkader Benali, novelist, columnist.
- Mounir El Hamdaoui, football (soccer) player.
- Mohammed Bouyeri, Islamist terrorist, assassin of Theo van Gogh.
References
Notes
- ^ CBS 2010
- ^ Gazzah 2008, p. 11
- ^ Gazzah 2008, p. 12
- ^ Gazzah 2008, p. 11
- ^ Dibbits 2007, p. 11
- ^ CBS 2009
- ^ Dibbits 2007, p. 14
- ^ El Bardaï 2003, p. 322
- ^ Gazzah 2008, p. 11
- ^ El Bardaï 2003, p. 327
- ^ Gazzah 2008, p. 12
- ^ CBS 2009; the year 1996 is the earliest for which statistics are available online
- ^ Wanders, John, "Aboutaleb burgemeester Rotterdam" (in Dutch), de Volkskrant, http://www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/article1078969.ece/Aboutaleb_burgemeester_Rotterdam, retrieved 2009-11-11
- ^ Dibbits 2007, p. 16
- ^ "K1-vechter Badr Hari wil 'als gigant terugkeren'", November 25, 2010, Algemeen Dagblad (Dutch)
Sources
- El Bardaï, Omar (July 2003), "Les Marocains résidant aux Pays-Bas: caractéristiques démographiques et sociales", in Kabbaj, Khadija, Marocains de l’Extérieur, Rabat: Fondation Hassan II pour les Marocains Résidant à l’Etranger, pp. 322–373, ISBN 9-95440019-2, http://www.alwatan.ma/html/Publication_Fondation/Publication_2006/Publication/Ouvrage.pdf, retrieved 2009-03-24
- Dibbits, Hester (2007), "Moroccan Dutch Boys and the Authentication of Clothing Styles", in Margry, Peter Jan; Roodenburg, Herman, Reframing Dutch culture: between otherness and authenticity, Assgate Publishing, pp. 11–36, ISBN 9780754647058
- Gazzah, Miriam (2008), Rhythms and Rhymes of Life: Music and Identification Processes of Dutch-Moroccan Youth, ISIM Dissertations Series, Amsterdam University Press, ISBN 9789089640628
- Population by origin and generation, 1 January, The Hague: Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek, 2009, http://statline.cbs.nl/StatWeb/publication/?DM=SLEN&PA=37325eng&D1=a&D2=a&D3=0&D4=0&D5=2,139&D6=0,4-13&LA=EN&HDR=T,G1&STB=G5,G2,G3,G4&VW=T, retrieved 2009-10-27
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