Administrative into social control
The aliens police and foreign female servants in the Netherlands, 1918-40
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11934874 |
|---|---|
| Authors | L Lucassen (0000-0003-2334-4810, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 327-342 |
| Publication date | 2002-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0307-1022 • E-ISSN: 1470-1200 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03071020210160340 |
| OpenAlex | W2068233339 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 9 |
This article has made it clear that the social control the Leiden aliens police were able to exert from 1918 onwards, both on aliens and Dutch citizens, was enabled by a combination of increased monitoring as well as the administrative power that went with it. More concretely, it was a logical consequence of the revolution in the migration regime that took place throughout the western world around the time of World War I. This case nuances the quite bleak picture of the attitude of the aliens police towards foreign female servants. Thus, it is argued that servants were not play-things in the hands of the local police, although their legal as well as discretionary powers were considerable. The combination of age, gender and social position made them a special category in the eyes of the police. Because they were young and female the police regarded them, on the one hand, as vulnerable. When this image dominated, policemen showed paternalistic behaviour and sometimes acted as surrogate parents. Their attitude is well captured by the concepts of 'bureaucratic paternalism' and 'caring power'. On the other hand, domestic servants could also be considered as a moral threat. Most of them having come from working-class backgrounds, they easily fitted the image of women of loose moral standing who could endanger the public morale of the Netherlands. This ambivalent image of foreign domestic servants explains the corresponding variation in the treatment of complaints
Ambivalence · Bureaucracy · Criminology · Paternalism · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Social control · Sociology · Colonial History and Postcolonial Studies · European history and politics · European Political History Analysis · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 0.29 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2026 (18) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |