Dutch Mexicans

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Dutch Mexicans (Dutch: Nederlandse Mexicanen) are Mexican citizens of Dutch descent. According to the 2020 census of INEGI, there are 1,221 Dutch citizens residing in Mexico.

History[]

The first Dutch immigrants to settle in what is now Mexico were Mennonites between the late 19th and the early 20th century. Under the protection of the emperor Maximiliano de Habsburgo and the then president Plutarco Elías Calles, religious Mennonites of German and Dutch immigrants settled in the states of the north and the southeastern Mexico where Plautdietsch is still spoken today, a German dialect called "Niederdeutsch" or "Plattdeutsch" in Low-German terminology that is spoken between the Netherlands and Germany.

The late Porfiriato, the impressive Mexican political stability, the growing financial credibility, as well as the incipient Dutch industrialization made things change, investments and trade resumed. The Netherlands sent diplomats to Mexico to conclude new treaties that were signed between 1899 and 1909, but relations with the nation continued to be dispatched from the Dutch legation in Washington. Muller (1905) and De Veer (1910) tell that some Dutch started tobacco and coffee plantations in Mexico, but Dutch immigration was generally scant, although the Mexican government was interested in attracting good farmers and dairy farmers to Mexico and he made it clear that there was room for Javanese workers on the sugar and cocoa plantations. However, the most important trade with Mexico was concentrated, as before, in Antwerp. Dutch trade in Mexico was carried out mainly from the port of Rotterdam and reflected the increasing modernization of industry and the Mexican railway. The Netherlands exports, for example, rails, coal and coke. But the total Dutch export to Mexico was less than half a million guilders a year, much less than the Belgian trade with Mexico.^[2]

In terms of investments, the Netherlands were much more important than Belgium. In 1910, many Dutch investments in Mexico were already in fifth place, after the United States and the three great European powers. At that time, the maatschappij voor hypothecair credeit Holland-Mexico (Holland-Mexico Mortgage Credit Society) and the Hollandsch Transatlantische Handelsvereeniging (Dutch Transatlantic Commercial Association) existed in Mexico City. It was not surprising that the Dutch colony in Mexico City, still dependent on the Netherlands Legation in Washington: four days by train - insisted several times after 1900 on a diplomatic representation in Mexico, because Belgium already had it for years.^[2]

Dutch residents in Mexico[]

• Giovanni Korporaal, actor, editor, screenwriter and film director
• Jan Hendrix, artist
• Martijn Kuiper, actor
• Roberto Vander, actor
• Vincent Janssen, footballer

Mexicans of Dutch descent[]

• Allan Van Rankin, footballer
• Ariadne Welter, actress
• Gastón Luken Garza, businessman and politician
• Jorge Van Rankin, actor and television host
• Josecarlos Van Rankin, footballer
• Linda Christian, actress
• Gabriela Schloesser, recurve archer

See also[]

• Mennonites in Mexico
• Mexico-Netherlands relations

References[]