Being far away from what you need: the impact of dispersal on resettled refugees’ homemaking and place attachment in small to medium-sized towns in the Netherlands

Figures & data

Figure 1. Dispersal location of Syrian respondents who were resettled from Turkey to the Netherlands in 2016.

Table 1. Description of the dispersal municipalities of respondents.

Town	Size	Municipality	Size	% population non-Western ethnic minority	Degree of urbanity (Stedelijkheid)	Nearest hospital in km	Nearest high school in km	Nearest station in km
Lekkerkerk	7680	Krimpenerwaard	55,204	0.03	4	11.2	3.6	10.9
Musselkanaal	7235	Stadskanaal	32,252	0.04	4	5.6	3.0	18.6
Rotterdam	634,660	Rotterdam	634,660	0.38	1	2.8	1.1	2.9
Nibbixwoud	2420	Medemblik	43,604	0.03	5	13.7	5.3	8.8
Nistelrode	5270	Bernheze	29,880	0.02	5	7.3	4.8	8.1
Nieuwekerk/Ijsel	21,595	Zuidplas	41,468	0.08	2	7.1	3.0	3.4
Rijnsburg	15,840	Katwijk	63,633	0.03	2	2.9	0.7	4.8
Ter Apel	9300	Vlagtwedde	16,212	0.07	4	16.5	1.5	16.8
Wapenveld	6115	Heerde	18,556	0.02	5	6.6	5.1	7.2
Wassenaar	25,885	Wassenaar	25,885	0.10	3	1.7	1.9	4.4
Wijk bij Duurstede	17,515	Wijk bij Duurstede	23,384	0.06	3	8.6	1.2	11.0

Source: CBS (2017).

Central Bureau for Statistics. 2017. Data on Dutch Municipalities. Accessed in 2017 from Statline at: https://opendata.cbs.nl/statline/#/CBS/nl/.

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