A multicultural family drama:Media debates on international parental child abduction in the Netherlands

Against the background of polarised debates on migration and multiculturalism in the Netherlands, ‘mixed’ marriages and relationships have become the focus of attention. An important part of this attention is directed at international parental child abduction (IPCA). In this contribution we discuss media debates- in newspapers, books, TV-shows, films and websites- on IPCA. We argue that stories about IPCA are dominated by the frame of the maternal melodrama that affects its production, shape and content. In the maternal melodrama, the female protagonist overcomes terrible suffering and regains... Mehr ...