Gemengd huwen, nationaliteit en de verschillen voor mannen en vrouwen.

Autor(en)

Machteld Venken

Abstrakt

In the aftermath of World War II, Polish soldiers who had liberated parts of Flanders and Ostarbeiterinnen, Eastern European women who had been employed in the Nazi war industry, arrived in Belgium and married Belgian citizens. Belgian law required women, who married a foreigner, to exchange their original citizenship for that of their husbands. Scholars assume that derivative citizenship worked to immigrant women’s advantage, because they were granted the citizenship of the settlement country. My examination, however, made clear that in most daily practices, Ostarbeiterinnen were in a less advantageous position than Polish soldiers. I argue that scholars should focus on various context specific factors, the marriage contract, concepts of gendered citizenship, migration and naturalisation policies, the dual nature of citizenship and the geopolitical situation, in order to discover a framework of sometimes contradicting possibilities based on dominant gender presumptions in policy and daily practices that shaped different (dis)advantages for men and women with regard to the consequences of their marriages and citizenship on their lives.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Osteuropäische Geschichte

Journal

Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis

Band

5

Seiten

23-48

Anzahl der Seiten

26

DOI

https://doi.org/10.18352/tseg.484

Publikationsdatum

2008

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

601022 Zeitgeschichte

Schlagwörter

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/bc5654f8-4ba7-44e6-82fe-3d06cf67479f