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Immigration In The Dutch News
Below is a collection of news articles, opinion pieces, and academic research about immigrant sentiments in the Netherlands. When reading/using this list, keep in mind that it represents a very vocal minority of people in the Netherlands and that it is deeply influenced by larger issues of class, race, nationality, and religion which may or may not be applicable to what you, personally, would experience here.
Pro-Immigration News
- Local exposure to refugees changed attitudes to ethnic minorities in the Netherlands
- Public raises over €100,000 after government halts theme park trip for asylum youth
- In Rotterdam, a new art museum explores the city's rich history of migration
- Feeling at home – and having one – top the Amstelveen issue list
- Dutch Parties Seek To Open First LGBT Asylum Center in Amsterdam
American-Specific News
- ‘No other option’: inside the refugee camp for trans Americans fleeing Trump
- I'm an American living in the Netherlands. People won't stop talking to me about Trump — here's what they ask me
- Local officials in Amsterdam-area call for 30% ruling to be scrapped
- Dutch government plans new cut to expat tax break to collect €20 million more per year
- Here’s how many Dutch people actually agree with Trump (and it’s surprising)
- Anti-American sentiment rises in Europe as Trump fuels anger
- Dutch gov't taking steady action to discourage expats from coming to Netherlands
- Amsterdam councilors back expat "integration" plan
Anti-Immigrant Incidents That Made News In The Netherlands
- 200 participate in anti-immigration march in The Hague; Some dressed as Zwarte Piet
- Far right march through Amsterdam in anti-immigration protest
- How a toxic mix of antisemitism, racism and xenophobia culminated in Amsterdam violence
- Police end violent protest against asylum centre in Uitgeest
- Dutch people try to stop asylum seekers with own border controls at German border
- Riot police intervene in anti-asylum protests in Houten & Uithoorn; At least 7 arrested
- Six arrested at Amersfoort asylum protest; Also unrest in Hoorn
- Seven arrested in Uden after violent clash at asylum center meeting
- Video: Angry mob throw burning torches, eggs at town hall in asylum center protest
- Arson at emergency shelter Loosdrecht, protesters stop firefighters
- Explosion at future Den Bosch asylum shelter; Riot police again intervene in Apeldoorn
General Anti-Immigration News
- Amsterdam violence exposes anti-immigrant Islamophobia in the Netherlands
- Rotterdam unveils a museum about migration while anti-foreigner sentiment rises in Europe
- Anti-immigration sentiment becoming dominant in the Netherlands
- Most of this is symbolic: the new wave of anti-migrant vigilantes in Europe
- Migration in the Netherlands: Rhetoric and Perceived Reality Challenge Dutch Tolerance (older article)
- The Immigrants: The rise of the extreme right in the Netherlands, Part 2 (older article)
- Migrants overpaying for substandard homes face blame for Netherlands housing crisis
- Dutch Protests Erupt As Immigration Fails To Deliver Economic Benefits
- Right-wing parties cluster around anti-immigrant stance: analysis
- Foreigners in NL feel more discrimination than rest of EU
Anti-Asylum Seeker News
- Prison of papers: As Netherlands ramps up detentions, undocumented immigrants speak out
- NETHERLANDS: Anti-migration protest descends into violence — Progress in deal to set up deportation centre in Uganda — Government plans stricter nationality law — Immigration service raises concerns over impact of new asylum laws
- The Netherlands’ politically manufactured migration crisis
- Netherlands to send rejected asylum seekers to Uganda
- Dutch lawmakers pass controversial bills tightening asylum rules
- Why are people protesting against asylum in the Netherlands?
- Resistance to asylum shelters led to far-right gains in municipal elections