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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).
The integration of immigrants or migrant integration is the process of social integration of immigrants and their descendants in a society. Central aspects of social integration are language , education , the labour market , participation , values and identification within the host country.
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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. [citation needed]
The integration law for immigrants to the Netherlands, known as the Civil Integration Act 2021 (Dutch: Wet inburgering 2021), is a law designed to ensure that long-term immigrants to the Netherlands, who are not citizens of the European Union, European Economic Area (Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway) or Switzerland, integrate into Dutch society.
Amsterdam was also a member of the Society of Suriname, an organisation founded to oversee the management of the Dutch colony of Surinam, which was economically dependent on slave plantations. On 1 July 2021, the mayor of Amsterdam, Femke Halsema, apologised for the city's involvement in the slave trade. [57] [58]
[1] There are a few country names borrowed from French and Russian as Vietnam's history is closely linked to France and Russia. Countries whose names borrow from French are: Morocco, Cyprus, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Czech. And the countries whose names borrowed from Russian are Georgia and Lithuania.
Jan Rath is a Dutch social scientist who used to hold a chair in Urban Sociology in the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.His academic studies have focused on the nexus of urban structures and processes on the one hand and their social, ethnic and religious dimensions on the other.