Summary The New Diversity

There was a time when large groups of immigrants came to the Netherlands from a small number of countries, to wit Indonesia, Morocco, Turkey, Surinam or the former Netherlands Antilles. Since then, the situation has changed considerably. In today’s Dutch society, not only has the number of people with a migration background increased, but the migrants hail from much more diverse backgrounds. People belonging to the ‘classical’ communities of immigrants are now in a minority, with the majority of migrants having come from a wide range of other countries, including Poland, Bulgaria, Syria, Germany, India and China. In 2017, the migrants living in the Netherlands hailed from 223 different countries of origin.