Moroccan-Dutch
| Total population | |
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| Regions with significant populations | |
| predominantly Randstad (70%), Noord-Brabant and Limburg (16%) | |
| Languages | |
| Dutch, Tamazight (70-60%), Moroccan Arabic (40–30%) | |
| Religion | |
| Mainly Islam, minority Christianity, Judaism And Atheist |
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380,755 (as of 1 July 2015)
The terms Moroccan-Dutch or Dutch-Moroccans refer to immigrants from Morocco to the Netherlands and their descendants. They are one of the larger immigrant groups, making up 10.4% of the country's total population of foreign background.
Moroccans were not much represented in the first major wave of migration to the Netherlands from the mid-1940s to the mid-1960s, which consisted mostly of people from the Netherlands' former colonies. However, they began to show up in large numbers during the second wave; between 1965 and 1973, one hundred thousand Turks and Moroccans came to the Netherlands, and a further 170,000 from 1974 to 1986. Earlier arrivals consisted of guest workers, whose recruitment and admission was governed by a bilateral treaty signed in 1969. However, the guests did not return home. From the 1970s, the number arriving under family reunification schemes became more significant. Around half originated from the mountainous Rif region.
As of 2009[update], statistics of the Dutch Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek with regards to people of Moroccan origin showed:
For a total of 353,987 persons (176,647 men, 164,881). This represented roughly 51% growth over the 1996 total of 225,088 persons. The population has shown a year-on-year increase every year since then.
As of 2011, 16% of male youth under 25 years of age in Amsterdam is Dutch-Moroccan.
"I know my friends from the street," a 2002 Verweij-Jonker Institute report on leisure time of Dutch Turks and Dutch Moroccans, stated that Dutch Moroccans tend to make few new contacts from the street, tend to spend leisure time with members of the same ethnicity and sex, and have leisure activities heavily influenced by "Moroccan culture". Frank Buijs did a 1993 study of young Moroccan men in the Netherlands. He found that young men prefer attending "Moroccan parties" over other types of parties since they are able to meet other Moroccans and consider the parties to be "fun".
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