Posted on 08/04/2006 1:38:34 PM PDT by untenured
The Netherlands is the only country in Western Europe where emigrants outnumber immigrants. In 2005, an unprecedented 121 thousand persons left the country. Immigration totalled 92 thousand persons. Such a large negative net migration is found nowhere else in Europe.
For decades, the number of people who came to settle in the Netherlands outnumbered those who were leaving the country permanently. This situation changed in 2003, when emigrants outnumbered immigrants for the first time.
There seems to be no end to the emigration increase in the foreseeable future. In the first quarter of 2006 29 thousand persons left the Netherlands, 5 thousand more than in the same period one year previously and the negative net migration trend appears to continue and grow.
Net migration has seen a spectacular development in recent years. In 2001 and 2002, immigrants still outnumbered emigrants by 50 thousand, whereas in 2005 emigrants outnumbered immigrants by 27 thousand. This situation is found nowhere else in the European Union. Various countries in Eastern Europe indeed also had a negative net migration, but the Netherlands had the largest negative net migration within the European Union in 2005.
In 2005, one quarter of emigrants whose country of destination was known, settled in Belgium or Germany. Lower house prices in the neighbouring countries probably played an important part in the decision to leave the Netherlands. Other popular destinations are the United Kingdom and the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba.
Emigration increased in all age groups, but has particularly grown among older people. The population is ageing and the number of older people who consider emigration is also on the increase. The amount of emigrants over the age of 55 increased from 6 thousand in 1995 to 10 thousand in 2005. Spain and France in particular are popular destinations among older people. The majority of emigrants, however, are in their twenties and thirties.
Jan Latten and Han Nicolaas
Muslim immigration...
Muslims moving in and the natives are moving out...
But I think it should be interesting to know the geographical origins of emigrants and immigrants.
Maybe it's a part of the explication, but only a part. Because there's a lot of causes to emigration. For instance, actually in France, there's a lot of emigration to Belgium in the higher-class because taxes are lower in Belgium. And there's a lot of emigration from Netherlands or UK to France because houses are far cheaper...
And you'd be right, same is happening here in the UK. I hate to say it but it's gonna be high noon for Europe if someone doesn't stop these muslims. The fact that the goverment can just sit there and do nothing is one of the most shameful episodes in UK history!!
"Muslims moving in and the natives are moving out..."
That's what i think. Why can't the press be honest enough to give us that information, seeing as how they have to inform the Islamofascists whenever the FBI taps their phone calls.
You are right to ask, although the data on the website are mixed. From this report we have the following:
In the first six months of 2004 the number of emigrants that left the Netherlands amounted to 53 thousand, 6 thousand more than in the first six months of the previous year. More than half of these emigrants consist of people born abroad who leave the Netherlands after having lived here for a number of years. In the first six months of 2004 in particular the emigration of Turks rose substantially.
And yet Turkey ranks only 10th on the list of countries where Dutch expats live. Some of these destinations are countries (South Africa, Australia) where one might expect white Dutch to be going. From this report I found the following chart:
So it does seem that there has been an increase in returnees from Turkey at least; of Morocco, where many immigrant Dutch also come from, I can find nothing. It does seem though that older Dutch and Dutch interested in migration for economic reasons are leaving in larger numbers. That immigrants tend to have bigger families and that white Dutch are leaving Rotterdam, Amsterdam and the Hague will leave those cities with nonwhite majorities by 2030. On the one hand the number of native emigrants is small compared to just after the war, on the other it is occurring against the backdrop of a much more polyglot population, and so has a bigger effect on the ethnic balance.
I confirm, it's the demographical tendency :
On 1 January 2006, approximately one in three residents of Amsterdam, Rotterdam and The Hague had a non-western background. After a period of sustained growth, the proportion of first-generation non-westerners in Amsterdam and Rotterdam is gradually declining since 2004, whereas the proportion of second-generation non-westerners continues to rise. Half of young big-city dwellers currently have a non-western background.
Share of people with non-western background
First generation in decline
In Amsterdam, Rotterdam and The Hague one in three residents have a non-western background. The rate in big cities far exceeds the rate in other regions. Nearly 11 percent of the Dutch population of 16.3 million have a non-western background. The proportion of people with a non-western background increased rapidly in Rotterdam and The Hague during the past decade, but the growth rate has slowed down in recent years. In 2005, the share of the first generation even declined marginally in Amsterdam and Rotterdam. This is mainly due to a reduction in the number of immigrants and a simultaneous increase in the number of emigrants.
Share of first generation people with non-western background
Growth second generation continues
Although the first generation of people with a non-western background is no longer growing, the second generation is still increasing. Many people with a non-western background have already started or are about to start a family. A large proportion of young big-city dwellers belong to the second generation. More than half of young people living in Amsterdam and Rotterdam have a non-western background.
Share of people with non-western background among the young
Suburbanisation
More and more people with a non-western background living in the Netherlands move from the big cities to suburbs and neighbouring municipalities. The migration from big cities to suburbs is a process that started a few decades ago among native Dutch. Relatively many people from the former Dutch colony of Surinam, for instance, left Amsterdam to settle in Almere. This process is anticipated to continue in the years to come. Maarten Alders and Joop Garssen
white flight by any other name is still...
This raises the fascinating (for historians 500 years from now) but disturbing (for those of us in the here and now) question of whether a bunch of Turks, Moroccans, Indonesians and Africans can get along in Amsterdam without the presence of any Dutch. Even apart from the Eurabia thesis, the tremendous diversity in these cities, which may not even include in any great numbers the people whose ancestors created the famous Dutch tolerance to begin with, is to put it mildly a problem in its own right.
Am glad I saw the Netherlands when the Dutch were still the majority. Beautiful Country.
With the actual immigrants, and their children, it seems that the integration's machinery is broken. They keep a strong links with their original countries (via satelite TVs, internet, summer holidays in Algeria or Morocco...) and, a part of them tend to partly or totally reject the french and european values. And that is really alarming.
I think the modern model for muslim takeover of a country is perhaps earliest and most successfully represented in the Indonesian example.
Our family emigrated a second time in '57 to the US of A. I've been back to Holland more than two dozen times, and it sickens me how things have changed. The liberals advocating open borders there just kept giving everything away, irrespective of whether it was sustainable. The Dutch inherited wealth of natural gas has been perhaps like a trust fund to an Ivy Leaguer. When you spend faster than the income and growth can replenish, you're headed down, baby!
The numbers will tell the tale if these easily radicalized Muslims are allowed to take over through the vote, the gun or bombs. The Dutch will become a novelty to Islamic historians, as we now think the people of Pompeii.
HF
Read "While Europe Slept" by Bruce Bawer. He and his male lover moved to Holland from the U.S. to experience the famous Dutch tolerance. No more. He was shocked at the Muslim takeover. One out of three Dutch want to leave. The murder of Theo Van Gogh by radical Muslims has been a wakeup call for many complacent Dutch. Things are rapidly going downhill.
LOL, I want one of those cars to give the Boss Hog feel.
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