Afro-Dutch or Black Dutch people are
Dutch people
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who are of Sub-Saharan African ancestry. The majority of Afro-Dutch in the Netherlands are
Afro-Caribbean
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and hail from the former and present Dutch overseas territories
Suriname
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and the former
Netherlands Antilles
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; now
Curaçao
Curaçao, officially the Country of Curaçao, is a constituent island country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located in the southern Caribbean Sea (specifically the Dutch Caribbean region), about north of Venezuela.
Curaçao includ ...
,
Aruba
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,
Bonaire
Bonaire is a Caribbean island in the Leeward Antilles, and is a Caribbean Netherlands, special municipality (officially Public body (Netherlands), "public body") of the Netherlands. Its capital is the port of Kralendijk, on the west (Windward an ...
,
Sint Maarten
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,
Sint Eustatius
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The island is in the northern Leeward Islands ...
and
Saba
Saba may refer to:
Places
* Saba (island), an island of the Netherlands located in the Caribbean Sea
* Sabá, a municipality in the department of Colón, Honduras
* Șaba or Șaba-Târg, the Romanian name for Shabo, a village in Ukraine
* Saba, ...
. Of the approximately 500,000 Afro-Dutch people, about 300,000 people, or 60%, are from these territories. Whilst only a minority of Black Dutch citizens are of
Sub-Saharan African
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migrant background, there is a sizable population of
Cape Verdean,
Ghanaian
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,
Nigerian
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,
Somali,
Angolan and other African communities of more recent immigrants. The majority of Afro-Dutch people migrated to the Netherlands from the 1970s onwards, most of the recent migrants arriving either as political refugees seeking freedom or, more often, to escape regional conflicts, such as from Eritrea.
Demographics
Source:
Notable Afro-Dutch people
Bibliography
*
Appiah, Kwame Anthony and
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.(1999). Africana: the Encyclopedia of African and African American Experience. Basic Civitas Books, pp. 1413–1416. .
* Gowricharn, Ruben S. ( 2006 )
''Caribbean Transnationalism: Migration, Pluralization, and Social Cohesion'' Lexington Books.
References
See also
*
Zwarte Hollanders
{{African diaspora
Ethnic groups in the Netherlands
Caribbean diaspora by country