Surinamese people in the Netherlands

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Surinamese people in the Netherlands
Surinamers in Nederland

Distribution of Surinamese people in the Netherlands (2011)
Total population
365,000 (2023)
Regions with significant populations
Amsterdam Rotterdam The Hague Utrecht Almere Zoetermeer
Languages
Dutch · Sranan Tongo · Sarnami Hindustani · Surinamese-Javanese · Maroon languages · Indigenous languages · Chinese languages
Religion
Majority: Christianity Hinduism Significant Minority: Islam Other Minority: Winti Kejawèn Chinese folk religion (incl. Taoism and Confucianism) Buddhism Indigenous Amerindian religion Irreligious Others
Related ethnic groups
Indians in the Netherlands · Afro-Dutch people · Indonesians in the Netherlands · Chinese people in the Netherlands

Surinamese people in the Netherlands (Dutch: Surinamers in Nederland), also Surinamese Dutch (Surinaamse Nederlanders) or Dutch Surinamese (Nederlandse Surinamers), are people in the Netherlands who come from a Surinamese background. From 1667 to 1975, Suriname was a colony of the Netherlands.

Migration began during the colonial era. Initially this was mainly the colonial elite but expanded during the 1920s and 1930s to the less fortunate inhabitants looking for better education, employment or other opportunities.^[1] The choice of becoming Surinamese or Dutch citizens in the years leading up to Suriname's independence in 1975 led to a mass migration to the Netherlands. This migration continued in the period immediately after independence and during military rule in the 1980s and for largely economic reasons extended throughout the 1990s. The Surinamese community in the Netherlands numbered 350,300 as of 2013^[update]. Most have a Dutch passport and the majority have been successfully integrated into Dutch society.^[2] There are also Surinamese people who have migrated to the Netherlands from French Guiana or the Netherlands Antilles.

Surinamese are an ethnically and culturally diverse community. In the Netherlands, Hindustanis, Creoles and Javanese Surinamese people form the largest groups, with smaller groups of Chinese people and Maroons. Other groups consist of indigenous people, Jews (Sephardic and Ashkenazi), Lebanese, Portuguese and Surinamese people of mixed descent.