Migrants send €152m back home
Migrants living in the Netherlands sent €152m back to their home countries last year, according to research by the development aid organisation NCDO and Amsterdam’s Vrij University. Some 95% of the money was spend on their families’ basic needs, the researchers said.
On average Turks sent the most money (€780) and Surinamese the least (€310).
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