Regulating Mixed Marriages through Acquisition and Loss of Citizenship

Betty de Hart

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2015, vol. 662, issue 1, 170-187

Abstract: Mixed marriages have always had an ambiguous and often problematic relationship with the law. On one hand, mixed marriages have been seen as a key indicator of sociocultural integration into mainstream society. In terms of the law, this perception has been expressed, for example, as privileged access to citizenship status for immigrant family members of citizens. On the other hand, mixed marriages have been seen as a threat to society and social cohesion. In this article, I argue that these contradictory perceptions of mixed relationships have informed the development of citizenship law over time. Building on literature on the regulation of mixed marriages in law, as well as gender and citizenship law, I use the Netherlands as a case study to demonstrate how citizenship law has been used as a tool to prevent certain types of “undesirable†mixed couples and how this approach has informed Dutch citizenship law until today.

Keywords: mixed marriages; citizenship law; race; gender; intersectionality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1177/0002716215595390

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