{"id":117674,"date":"2020-09-14T16:36:03","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T14:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=117674"},"modified":"2026-01-16T16:40:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T15:40:25","slug":"migration-to-the-city-do-as-the-dutch-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2020\/09\/14\/migration-to-the-city-do-as-the-dutch-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Migration to the city: do as the Dutch do?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Of all people living in Rotterdam, 52.3 per cent have a migrant background. People have always migrated to and from colonies or former colonies, but a shift occurred in the mid-twentieth century, when more people arrived in the city than left.<\/p>\n

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The first people to be repatriated from Indonesia arrived in Rotterdam\u2019s St Jobshaven harbour in December 1945. In the spring of 1951, the first of 12,500 people from the Maluku Islands (also known as the Moluccas) arrived at Lyodekade. In the years and decades that followed, many people arrived from the Dutch Caribbean islandsand Suriname. A large number of migrants hailed from former Dutch colonies. There were also many labourers brought in from Turkey and Morocco.<\/p>\n\n\t

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