{"id":9698,"date":"2023-06-22T17:28:26","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T15:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/svjmedia.nl\/internationaljournalism\/?p=9698"},"modified":"2023-06-22T17:31:07","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T15:31:07","slug":"how-stichting-islamitisch-centrum-nederland-brings-a-sense-of-place-for-young-turks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/svjmedia.nl\/internationaljournalism\/9698\/how-stichting-islamitisch-centrum-nederland-brings-a-sense-of-place-for-young-turks\/","title":{"rendered":"How Stichting Islamitisch Centrum Nederland brings a sense of place for young Turks"},"content":{"rendered":"

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From the early sixties the Netherlands has witnessed immigration. In 1964, the Netherlands signed official agreements on labour migration with both Turkey and Morocco. As the Dutch textile and metal industries had a great demand for low-skilled workers, which led to a wave of labour migration during 1970 and 1974. Initially the Turkish population in the Netherlands were male migrants, who came from rural areas in Turkey, such as Central Anatolia and the Black Sea area. They came from low socio-economic backgrounds and were usually unskilled workers. At a later stage their wives and children came over to the Netherlands.<\/p>\n

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The Turkish community form the largest Mediterranean minority group In the Netherlands. In 2022, people with Turkish origins formed the largest group of the non-western population in the Netherlands with a total of 430,000 according to Statistica.<\/p>\n

Utrecht is one of the fourth largest Dutch cities and is home to a vast Turkish community.<\/p>\n

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A sense of place<\/strong><\/p>\n