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Vietnamese people in the Netherlands (Dutch: Vietnamezen in Nederland; Vietnamese: Người Việt tại Hà Lan) form one of the smaller overseas Vietnamese communities of Europe. They consist largely of refugees from the former South Vietnam , Vietnamese born-citizens and their descendants (Dutch born-citizens of part or full Vietnamese origin).
Even though the general acceptance of immigrants increased, opinion polls from the early 1980s and after showed that many were critical of immigration. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Following the murders of Pim Fortuyn (in 2002) and Theo van Gogh (in 2004) the political debate on the role of multiculturalism in the Netherlands reached new heights.
In Vietnam, the term Việt Kiều is used to describe Vietnamese people living abroad, though it is not commonly adopted as a term of self-identification. [81] Instead, many overseas Vietnamese also use the terms Người Việt hải ngoại ("Overseas Vietnamese"), a neutral designation, or Người Việt tự do ("Free Vietnamese"), which carries a political connotation.
[48] [211] Auspicious economic policies attracted a rapid influx of Han Chinese immigrants who sought to unlock and realize their economic nirvana through business and investment success up until the mid-twentieth century. [48] [211] Between 1925 and 1933, some 600,000 newly-minted Han Chinese immigrants settled in Vietnam. [224]
Vietnamese immigration checkpoint in Ho Chi Minh City's cruise terminal. Immigration to Vietnam is the process by which people migrate to become Vietnamese residents. After the declaration of independence in 1945, immigration laws were modified to give the central government some control over immigrant workers arriving from nearby South Asian countries such as China (including Hong Kong ...
There are 54 ethnic groups in Vietnam as officially recognized by the Vietnamese government. [1] Each ethnicity has their own unique language, traditions, and culture. The largest ethnic groups are: Kinh 85.32%, Tay 1.92%, Thái 1.89%, Mường 1.51%, Hmong 1.45%, Khmer 1.32%, Nùng 1.13%, Dao 0.93%, Hoa 0.78%, with all others accounting for the remaining 3.7% (2019 census). [2]
The Lạc Việt or Luoyue (駱越 or 雒越; pinyin: Luòyuè ← Middle Chinese: *lɑk̚-ɦʉɐt̚ ← Old Chinese *râk-wat [1]) were an ancient conglomeration of likely multilinguistic tribal peoples, specifically Kra-Dai and Austroasiatic tribal peoples that inhabited ancient northern Vietnam, and, particularly the ancient Red River Delta ...
The workers would mostly be housed in residential complexes. The Municipality of Amsterdam made land in Amsterdam-Noord available, as well as 2 million Dutch guilder, to be used for the project. [2] The complex was constructed on Klaprozenweg, Amsterdam-Noord, in 1965 and named after Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the first president of Turkey. [3]