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Immigration

In recent years, Radio Netherlands Worldwide has produced four special series on issues related to immigration as well as a wealth of current affairs and other articles.

Special series: 

  • The Challenges of Integration, 2007, Radio Netherlands Worldwide and four other international broadcasters have looked at various aspects of immigration.
  • Migration Concert, 2006, a two-part music series
  • Migration, 2005, focusing on what prompts people to changed their homeland
  • New Home, 2005,  eight stories of people who moved in or out of the Netherlands.

 

A slavery drama in the Dutch village of Someren

Handing in your passport and then being locked up in a windowless shack: is the slavery scandal involving Romanian workers in the Dutch village of Someren a one-off incident? Or maybe not?

 

Hundreds feared drowned off Libya

Hundreds of illegal migrants are missing, presumed dead, after their ship sank off the coast of Libya. But despite these dangers, thousands of Africans still try to cross the Mediterranean on their way to Europe.

 

The Netherlands wants to keep out foreign partners

The Netherlands helps foreigners who wish to leave and return to their country of origin, but not for Dutch citizens who want to come home. Returning Dutch expats who married abroad get caught up in bureaucracy.

 

Europe's 'Green Card' will be blue

The European Commission is planning to open Europe's doors to skilled immigrants in order to avoid a shortage of highly qualified workers.

 

Multicoloured dream country

Critics say multiculturalism created conflict by encouraging minorities to separate from mainstraim society. So should minorities be obliged to adopt Dutch values?

 

Migrant women in the Netherlands

Migrant women were long ignored by successive Dutch governments. But now, they too are being forced to integrate.

 

Open the world's doors?

"The current system is as outmoded as the Berlin Wall or Apartheid. I am sure that eventually, the current restrictive and irrational passport laws will also disappear," says listener Craig Alan Volker in Amsterdam Forum.

 

The first newcomers

By the time the Netherlands officially became an independent nation in 1648, it had become the centre of a trading empire and a magnet for people from abroad. The presence of many foreign-born residents had a deep impact on Dutch culture.

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