Abdelkader Benali reflects on the changing Dutch diaspora
In a column covered in September, Abdelkader Benali links childhood memories in Rotterdam with contemporary encounters at a Dutch garage. He describes a community whose trajectories and networks are diversifying.

In a column covered in September, Abdelkader Benali links childhood memories in Rotterdam with contemporary encounters at a Dutch garage. He describes a community whose trajectories and networks are diversifying.
This is a writer’s perspective, not a statistical survey of all Moroccans in the Netherlands. His account can be read as an interpretation of social change while preserving the diversity of individual experiences.