Social citizenship and divorce: Filipino migrant women (un)claiming social rights in the Netherlands and in Belgium

Marriages between partners with different nationalities and/or ethnicities are continuously attracting the controlling gaze of many states at the global level. Studies have demonstrated how states govern the intimate lives of ‘mixed’ couples through migration and social policies as well as family laws. When ‘mixed’ couples break up, the way states regulate their conjugal dissolution remains largely unexplored. Using a feminist perspective on social citizenship, the present paper addresses this scholarly gap by examining if, how, and why migrant spouses claim their social rights in their receiv... Mehr ...