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17 - Divided Families and Devalued Citizens: Money Matters in Mixed-Status Families in the Netherlands

from Part III - Citizenship

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 November 2021

By
Judith de Jong  and
Betty de Hart
Edited by
Tesseltje de Lange ,
Willem Maas  and
Annette Schrauwen
Tesseltje de Lange
Affiliation:
Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
Willem Maas
Affiliation:
York University, Toronto
Annette Schrauwen
Affiliation:
Universiteit van Amsterdam
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Summary

Undocumented immigrants are affected by citizenship boundaries, complicating their everyday lives. Precarious working conditions, social welfare, and security thoroughly impede their opportunities. However, understudied is the family context in which precarious immigrants live. Even though immigration and citizenship laws are directed towards individuals, they often affect the intimate domains of the family. The commonly held belief that criminalizing immigration would protect citizens while punishing immigrants denies the tight links that exists between these groups in practice. This chapter presents ‘spillover effects’ that the weaker legal status of the undocumented partner may have on the stronger legal status of the citizen or permanent resident partner in the European context. From a legal perspective, the effects of restrictions play out along several domains: access and treatment by welfare and social security, housing, and family law. Studying legal anomalies may serve as a lens to grasp the financial consequences of the distinctions between citizens and noncitizens.

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citizenshipsocial welfareundocumented migrantspillover effectslegal anomalies
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Money Matters in Migration
Policy, Participation, and Citizenship
 , pp. 297 - 316
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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