Dutch New Zealander

Dutch New Zealander
Nederlandse Nieuw-Zeelander

Hayley Westenra
Total population
100,000 [1]
Languages
New Zealand English , Dutch
Religion
Roman Catholic, Protestantism (Presbyterianism, Anglicanism etc)
Related ethnic groups
Dutch people, Dutch diaspora

Dutch New Zealanders are New Zealanders who are of Dutch ancestry. Dutch migration to New Zealand dates back to the earliest period of European colonisation.

Numbers

The 2006 census recorded 22,101 Dutch-born people. However, the number identifying themselves as Dutch in 2006 was 28,641. The Netherlands Embassy in Wellington estimates that there are approximately 45,000 persons living in New Zealand with Dutch nationality. This number includes persons with dual New Zealand and Dutch nationality. As many as 150,000 New Zealanders are estimated to be of Dutch descent.^[1]

See also

• Demographics of New Zealand
• Europeans in Oceania
• History of New Zealand
• New Zealand European

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Dutch New Zealander

Further reading

• Hulsen, Madeleine Elisabeth Helena (2000), Language loss and language processing: three generations of Dutch migrants in New Zealand, Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen, ISBN 9789090139906, OCLC 54535566 
• Tap, Relinde (2007), High-wire dancers: middle-class Pakeha and Dutch childhoods in New Zealand, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Auckland, OCLC 166333083, http://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/handle/2292/1517 
• Crezee, Ineke Hendrika Martine (2008), I understand it well, but I cannot say it proper back: language use among older Dutch migrants in New Zealand, Ph.D. dissertation, Auckland University of Technology, OCLC 387763257, http://aut.researchgateway.ac.nz/handle/10292/547