In the 17th century, people were on the move as much as they are today. The Thirty Years War sent millions of Europeans fleeing, and religious persecution prompted many to […]
immigration
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Anouk is a young Dutch girl who lives with her boyfriend Said. He’s Dutch too, but from a fairly traditional Moroccan-Berber family. Both of them are Dutch and Muslim. They […]
We all feel the need to belong, but what is it that shapes our sense of belonging? What happens when we’re transplanted to new cultures where we form new […]
Our guests in this programme are from many different backgrounds and countries: Iraq, Tibet, India, Pakistan, Australia and Surinam. They all live in the Netherlands, and they have different answers […]
Home is where the heart is. What if your heart lies somewhere in a territory just beyond your reach? What if you are an exile, an immigrant, a refugee? What […]
Maggie Ayre meets three Dutch people – two men and a woman – who went oversees (to the United States, Tasmania and South Africa) in search of happiness, love and […]
Khaled and Shukria Manupal are both physicians. They had a prosperous life and a nice home with their children in Afghanistan, until the Soviet invasion in 1979 forced them to […]
The 1990’s saw another exodus of Dutch farmers to Canada. Fleeing Eurocrats and their environmental restrictions, as well as rising land prices, hundreds of Dutch farmers decided to try their […]