People joining their
families was the biggest reason for migration to the Netherlands in
2015, the Dutch statistics service announced on Monday.
The CBS says that a third of the 159,000 people who migrated to the
country in 2015 came to join family members already here.
In 2003, half came for this reason, although since the number of
migrants has increased, this figure was 36,655 compared with 51,920 in
2015.
There was a dramatic rise in asylum-related migration in 2015, to almost
27,000, but more people actually moved to the Netherlands for work that
year, and almost 20,000 came to study.
Most of those joining their families came from Poland, Syria, Germany,
India and the UK in 2015. The figures exclude people of Dutch
nationality moving to the country.
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People joining their families was the biggest reason for migration to
the Netherlands in 2015, the Dutch statistics service announced on
Monday. The CBS says that a third of the 159,000 people who migrated to
the country in 2015 came to join family members already here.Read more at DutchNews.nl: Family is the biggest reason for migration to the Netherlands http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2017/07/family-is-the-biggest-reason-for-migration-to-the-netherlands/
In 2003, half came for this reason, although since the number of migrants has increased, this figure was 36,655 compared with 51,920 in 2015.
There was a dramatic rise in asylum-related migration in 2015, to almost 27,000, but more people actually moved to the Netherlands for work that year, and almost 20,000 came to study.
Most of those joining their families came from Poland, Syria, Germany, India and the UK in 2015. The figures exclude people of Dutch nationality moving to the country.
Read more: Family is the biggest reason for migration to the Netherlands - DutchNews.nl
