AL Editorial Team

The Indian Migration Boom in the Netherlands Is Slowing. The Community Is Settling Down.

Indian net migration to the Netherlands has fallen by nearly three-quarters since its 2022 peak. But earlier migrant cohorts are staying much longer, family migration has grown, and the community’s questions are shifting from jobs and relocation to children, housing, citizenship and ageing parents.

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Professional chef tossing a pan of vegetables in a commercial kitchen, showcasing culinary skills.

The Netherlands needed Asian chefs. Then the system started going wrong

Before last week’s Indian restaurant arrests, there was a chef shortage, a special immigration route, warnings of exploitation, a government shutdown — and even a lawsuit by Asian restaurant owners. The full story goes back years. There is a deceptively simple question behind the Indian restaurant investigation currently making news in the Netherlands: Why was

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Chef skillfully preparing traditional Indian street food chaat with various toppings and sauces.

What’s happening in the Dutch Indian restaurants case?

Two restaurant owners have been arrested in the Netherlands in an investigation involving Indian workers, alleged labour exploitation and more than €4 million in suspected illegal gains. Here is what we actually know — and what we don’t. If you are Indian and live around Amsterdam, Utrecht or The Hague, there is a reasonable chance

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