Dutch Surinamese / Boeroes are Surinamese people of Dutch descent. Photograph of Gijsbertus Overeem and wife Hendrika Snippenberg.Dutch migrant settlers in search of a better life started arriving in Suriname (previously known as Dutch Guiana) in the 19th century with the boeroes (not to be confused with the South African Boeren), poor farmers arriving from the Dutch provinces of Gelderland and Groningen.