Vietnamese people in the Netherlands

The first Vietnamese boat people arrived in the Netherlands in 1977.{{citation|url=http://www.wereldomroep.nl/actua/nl/samenleving/bootvluchtelingen020104.html|periodical=Wereldomroep|title="We hoopten op redding": 25 Jaar Vietnamese bootvluchtelingen in Nederland|date=2002-01-04|access-date=2009-06-01|last=Tiggeloven|first=Carin}}

In the early 1990s, after the fall of communist regimes all over Central and Eastern Europe, a group of about 400 Vietnamese—formerly guest workers in Czechoslovakia—fled to the Netherlands and sought asylum there.{{citation|url=http://www.trouw.nl/krantenarchief/1992/01/04/2695749/Spanning_stijgt_bij_kerk-Vietnamezen.html|title=Spanning stijgt bij kerk-Vietnamezen: Spanning stijgt bij kerk-Vietnamezen|periodical=Trouw|date=1992-01-04|access-date=2009-06-01|last=de Preter|first=Hans}} By May 1992, 300 still remained. The Vietnamese government, although it saw the asylum-seekers as guilty of a crime for having fled, offered assurances to the Dutch government that they would suffer no discrimination if repatriated.{{citation|title=Vietnamezen krijgen hulp bij terugkeer naar vaderland: Vietnamezen krijgen hulp bij terugkeer naar vaderland|url=http://www.trouw.nl/krantenarchief/1992/05/14/2705977/Vietnamezen_krijgen_hulp_bij_terugkeer_naar_vaderland.html|date=1992-05-14|access-date=2009-06-01|periodical=Trouw}}

{{asof|2009}}, statistics of the Dutch Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek showed:

• 11,960 Vietnamese-born persons (5,623 men, 6,337 women)
• 6,955 locally born persons of Vietnamese background (3,534 men, 3,421 women), of which:
• 1,027 persons with one parent also born locally (524 men, 503 women)
• 5,928 persons with both parents born abroad (3,010 men, 2,918 women)

For a total of 18,915 persons (9,157 men, 9,758 women). This represented 46% growth over the 1996 total of 12,937 persons. Most of the growth was in the locally born segment of the population, whose numbers more than doubled from 3,366 persons over the period in question; the number of Vietnamese-born showed more modest growth of 25%, from 9,571 persons.

A part of Vietnamese people in the Netherlands are Buddhists. Pagode Van Hanh is one of the official Vietnamese Buddhist temples in the Netherlands.[http://congdong.cz/home/15191/hoi-phat-giao-viet-nam-tai-ha-lan-xay-chua-moi.htm Hội Phật giáo Việt Nam tại Hà Lan xây chùa mới] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222063507/http://congdong.cz/home/15191/hoi-phat-giao-viet-nam-tai-ha-lan-xay-chua-moi.htm |date=February 22, 2014 }}

The two first parishes aimed at the Netherlands' Vietnamese Catholic community, the Allochtonen Missie van de Heilige Martelaren van Vietnam in Amersfoort and the Allochtonen Missie van de Heilige Moeder Maria in Deventer, were set up in 1994; at that time, there were estimated to be roughly 3,000 Vietnamese Catholics in the country.

Of the first 541 Vietnamese refugees who arrived in the Netherlands, 16.6% tested positive for the presence of Hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg).{{harvnb|Bänffer|1982|p=251}} Intestinal parasites were also common.{{harvnb|Bänffer|van Knapen|1982|p=1395}}

== Cuisine ==

{{Further|Vietnamese cuisine}}

=== Vietnamese loempia ===

{{Main|Lumpia}}

In the Netherlands a localised version of the Chả giò (or nem rán) known as the Vietnamese loempia is typically sold on every Dutch market and in many Dutch snackbars and supermarkets.{{cite web|url= https://npokennis.nl/longread/7928/tien-wereldgerechten-hoe-kwamen-ze-in-onze-keuken-terecht#id-20|title= Tien wereldgerechten: hoe kwamen ze in onze keuken terecht?|date=|access-date=2 January 2023|author= NPO Kennis|publisher= Nederlandse Publieke Omroep (NPO)|language=nl}} These Vietnamese loempia's were introduced during the mid-1980s and are typically served with a special sauce invented for the Dutch market as Dutch people are unfamiliar with fish sauce.

• Nhung Dam (born 1984), actress and writer
• Chloe Nguyen (born 1987), actress and television presenter
• Vincent Nguyen (born 1995), basketball player
• Reiky de Valk (2000–2023), actor
• Lian Tran (born 2002), tennis player

==See also==

{{Portal|Vietnam|Netherlands}}

• Netherlands–Vietnam relations
• Vietnamese diaspora
• Immigration to the Netherlands

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• {{citation|journal=Trop Geogr Med|year=1982|volume=34|pages=251–5|title=Markers of hepatitis B in a group of Vietnamese boat-refugees in the Netherlands|last=Bänffer|first=JR|pmid=7179464|issue=3}}
• {{citation|journal=Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd|date=July 1982|volume=126|pages=1395–8|title=Intestinal parasites in Vietnamese boat people in the Netherlands|last=Bänffer|first=JR|last2=van Knapen|first2=F|pmid=7133173|issue=31}}
• {{citation|last=Truong|first=Van Binh|year=1993|chapter=Vietnamese|title=Community Languages in the Netherlands|editor-first=Guus|editor-last=Extra|editor2-first=Ludo|editor2-last=Verhoeven|pages=301–18|publisher=Taylor and Francis|series=European Studies on Multilingualism|isbn=978-90-265-1360-2}}
• {{citation|title=Population by origin and generation, 1 January|publication-place=The Hague|publisher=Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek|date=2009-03-11|access-date=2009-03-25|ref=CITEREFCBS2009|url=http://statline.cbs.nl/StatWeb/publication/?DM=SLEN&PA=37325eng&D1=a&D2=0,l&D3=0&D4=0&D5=236&D6=a&LA=EN&HDR=T,G1&STB=G5,G2,G3,G4&VW=T}}

• {{citation|last=van der Hoeven|first=Erik|last2=de Kort|first2=Henk|year=1984|title=Reception and care of Unaccompanied Vietnamese Minors in the Netherlands, 1975 - 1984 - A Special Report|publication-place=The Hague|publisher=Coördinatiecommissie Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek Kinderbescherming}}
• {{citation|first=Marijke|last=Meijer|year=1990|title=Meeroeien met de bochten en de stromingen in de rivier: een onderzoek naar Vietnamese vrouwen in Nederland/Rowing with the Bends and Currents of the River: An Investigation into the Position of Vietnamese Women in the Netherlands|publication-place=Amsterdam|publisher=Vluchtelingenwerk|isbn=978-90-6937-012-5}}

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