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Another wave of Dutch immigration to South Africa occurred in the wake of World War II, when many Dutch citizens were moving abroad to escape housing shortages and depressed economic opportunities at home. [1] South Africa registered a net gain of 45,000 Dutch immigrants between 1950 and 2001. [1]
According to 2021 US Census data, 3,083,041 [1] Americans self-reported to be of (partial) Dutch ancestry, while 884,857 [2] Americans claimed full Dutch heritage. 2,969,407 Dutch Americans were native born in 2021, while 113,634 Dutch Americans were foreign-born, of which 61.5% was born in Europe and 62,9% entered the United States before 2000.
Under this act, 214,000 immigrants were admitted to the United States, including 60,000 Italians, 17,000 Greeks, 17,000 Dutch, and 45,000 immigrants from communist countries. [1] The act was designed to aid those fleeing European Communist countries, like the Soviet Union and Eastern Germany.
The scheme was administered by the Department of Labour under the guidance of Bert Bockett, and was expanded to include the Netherlands in 1950. [12] [14] The Dutch immigration scheme finished in 1963, with just over 6,000 immigrants to New Zealand; [15] with Bockett receiving the Olivier van Noort medallion from the Dutch government in the ...
This era brought about substantial social change within the Netherlands, including the establishment of a welfare state in the subsequent decades. Economic prosperity in the 1960s and 1970s led to social liberalization, culminating in progressive policies on immigration, drugs, and euthanasia.
In the 1950s, the Dutch immigrants Rolf Feijen and Hans Romaine formed the Restaurant Association of New Zealand. Lobbying by the association made restaurants such as Otto Groen's Otto Groen and the Dutch Kiwi, a restaurant located in Waiatarua, in the Waitākere Ranges of Auckland, become the first in New Zealand that was allowed to serve wine ...
In the mid-1800s, Dutch immigrants came to Sheboygan seeking a better life. Most aboard the Phoenix ship were within sight of shore when they died.
In 2014, about two million inhabitants were non-Western immigrants (1,095,731) or the direct descendants of these. Net immigration and the initially higher birth rate of the immigrant communities, have transformed the Dutch population structure since the 1950s.