Mixed marriages have always had an ambiguous and often problematic relationship with the
law. On one hand, mixed marriages have been seen as a key indicator of sociocultural …

Until 1964, Dutch women who married a foreign national automatically lost their Dutch
nationality. Until 1985 they could not pass on their Dutch nationality to their children. This …

For the past 10 to 15 years, Dutch policy makers and researchers, the general public, and
minority organizations have been preoccupied with the marital choices of the children of …

Citation for published version (APA): de Hart, B.(2015). Onwaarschijnlijke koppels:
regulering van gemengde seks en huwelijken van de Nederlandse koloniën tot Europees …

During colonial times, the Belgian metropolitan government removed mixed-race children
from their indigenous African families and placed them in specialised institutions. On the eve …

This article examines the arrangements that authorities put in place for populations of mixed
ancestry from two former colonies in Asia—the Dutch East Indies and British India—and …

The present article looks how intimate liaisons between Dutch women and Balinese men
are intertwined in complex and sometimes paradoxical ways in regard to class position …

In this lecture, I look at the legal work of three Dutch jurists and the role that they have played
in producing meanings of race and mixture. I do that as a way to explore the legal archive …

This paper aims to contribute to The History of the Family by researching the historical
relationship between family and state, and the roles that the concepts of 'race'and …

In early 2004, at the beginning of my long-term ethnographic fieldwork with Balinese
migrants in the Netherlands, Ibu Mariani, who went on to become one of my main …