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Private property or enemy property : how parliament confiscated the property of the stateless of German origin in Belgium (1918-21) Universiteit Gent
During the First World War, statelessness erupted suddenly - an anomaly at a time when nations were fighting each other at gunpoint. The stateless of German origin in Belgium discovered their legal status to be a resource to oppose claims on them by the German (and Belgian) state. After the First World War, the Belgian state took revenge on the Germans in their midst by confiscating their private property. This article discusses whether the ...
Divorce in Turkish and Moroccan communities in Belgium Universiteit Gent
This paper focuses on divorce amongst Turkish and Moroccan Belgians, with a specific focus on the effect of partner-choice patterns. Divorce patterns of marriages established between 01 January 2001 and either 31 December 2003 (descriptive part), or 31 December 2005 (event-history analyses) are analysed and compared to marriages established between 01 January 1988 and 31 December 1990. We distinguish three marriage types: transnational marriages ...
Pioniers in het consumptiekrediet tijdens de Belle Epoque : twee Belgische casussen Universiteit Gent
The Brussels piano dealer Pierre-Mathieu Riesen-burger and the sewing machine salesman, from Eekloo, Auguste Gabriel, were both pioneers in using credit to facilitate the purchase of durable consumer goods. From the 1880s, when they started their business, they were willing to grant their customers consumer credit. The payment for the sewing machines could be spread over a period of one or even two years, while the significantly more expensive ...
Arbeidsmarkt van de Belgische mijnen in de twintigste eeuw : inleiding op het themanummer Universiteit Gent
Red Aid, a non-accommodating NGO challenging the power of the West-European states to deny protection to undeserving refugees, 1933-1935 Universiteit Gent
Hoe de Belgische mijnindustrie een nieuw thuis aan vluchtelingen-mijnwerkers aanbood (1947-1951) Universiteit Gent
Deze bijdrage analyseert de instroom van 21.906 vluchtelingen uit Oost-Europa in de Belgische mijnen. Ze werden gerekruteerd in de door de internationale vluchtelingenorganisatie beheerde vluchtelingenkampen in het bezette Duitsland, om de arbeidsnoden in de Belgische mijnindustrie te lenigen. Tegelijkertijd beloofden de Belgische autoriteiten deze vluchtelingen een “vrij en normaal leven” in België. Deze spanning tussen ...