Nigerians in the Netherlands
There is a small community of Nigerians in the Netherlands, which began to grow in the late 1980s. Migration history The earliest Nigerian asylum-seekers came to the Netherlands in 1987. As of 2006, the primary modes of migration of Nigerians are for marriage, work or study. Many of the Nigerians in the Netherlands for training are employees of Royal Dutch Shell. There is also some circular migration between Nigerians in the United Kingdom and in the Netherlands. One study, based on the cohort arriving in 1998, estimated that 25% of Nigerians who arrive in the Netherlands leave after four years. Nigerians point to the relative difficulty of finding work or starting businesses as a major driver for onward migration to the United Kingdom. Demographic characteristics , statistics of the Dutch Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek with regards to people of Nigerian origin showed: 5,283 persons of first-generation background (3,037 men, 2,246 women) 4,170 persons of second-generation background (2,110 men, 2,060 women), of which: 2,969 persons with one parent born in the Netherlands (1,507 men, 1,462 women) 1,201 persons with both parents born outside the Netherlands (603 men, 598 women) For a total of 9,453 persons (5,147 men, 4,306 women). This