Doomed to Fail’
Dutch and West German Consulates Warning Against Mixed Marriages, 1950s–70s
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10073524 |
|---|---|
| Authors | B De Hart (0000-0003-0685-3242, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, corresponding author), Julia Woesthoff (Department of History, LAS Study Abroad Committee) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 697-717 |
| Publication date | 2023-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Contemporary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0094 • E-ISSN: 1461-7250 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00220094231200459 |
| OpenAlex | W4387409689 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
This article demonstrates how official discourses in Western Europe warning against mixed marriages were built on colonial continuities as part of shared European heritage, as well as the importance of race and gender ideologies in those discourses. It addresses the exchange across borders of approaches to regulating ‘mixed’ marriages among Dutch and German consular officials, strongly advising European White women not to emigrate and not to marry Muslim men. Based on research in the archives of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs as well as newspaper archives in the Netherlands and West Germany, this article demonstrates the central role that consulates of both countries played in developing these official discourses. This study contributes to literature on female (e)migration as well as literature on present-day restrictive migration control practices by demonstrating the historical and colonial roots that still serve to justify state practices of regulating mixed intimacies in surveilling women's partner choice
Colonialism · Criminology · Emigration · German · Ideology · Newspaper · Political science · Politics · Refugee · Sociology · State (computer science · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · Gender Studies · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · History · Law · Political and Social Issues
Tense and Tender Ties
After the Nazi Racial State
Mixed Race Britain in The Twentieth Century
Protecting Dutch Girls from the Harem
Challenging Authorities through ‘Undesired’ Marriages
Appropriating mobility and bordering Europe through romantic love
Inversion of the ‘Duty of Care’
She lives with a chinaman’
Racial Ideas and Gendered Intimacies
Adenauer's Foreign Office
Tense and Tender Ties
The right sort of woman
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |