One out of every three people in Utrecht today has a parent born outside of the Netherlands, connecting Utrecht to places near and far throughout the world. The city is home to many people who came to the country as ‘guestworkers’ in the 1960s and their descendants; from the former Dutch colonies; seeking asylum; and international students and ‘knowledge workers’. Utrecht is a ‘bed-bath-bread city’, offering shelter and services to people with undocumented status.

Co-created by its intercultural companions, Migrantour Utrecht’s first tour was in August 2022 in Utrecht’s culturally diverse Lombok neighborhood. Participants praise the interactive tour as ‘moving’, ‘inspirational’ and sometimes ‘confronting’, helping them ‘think – maybe even differently – about migration, integration, inclusion, difference and what it means to be human in a culture that’s not the one you were born into’.