Group: | Arubans in the Netherlands Dutch; Flemish: Arubanen in Nederland |
Population: | 23,800 (2013) |
Langs: | Dutch, Papiamento |
Rels: | Christianity |
Arubans in the Netherlands are migrants from Aruba to the Netherlands and their descendants. Aruba was part of the former Netherlands Antilles until 1986 when the country seceded remaining a constituent country of Kingdom of the Netherlands. As of 2014, figures from Statistics Netherlands showed 142,953 people of Dutch Antillean origin in the Netherlands, of which 23,800 are Aruban.[1] The largest Aruban communities in the Netherlands can be found in Amsterdam, Almere, Haarlem, The Hague, Rotterdam, Alkmaar and Amersfoort.