eu-migration: interview with sarah van walsen about dutch migration laws

Sarah van Walsen is researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and specialised on women in migration.

The dutch migration laws are very much bound on income and therefore there are dependencies for female migrants.
The dutch law is on the way to become more strict – a developement which concerns mostly the not so rich people.

As Sarah van Walsen points out it becomes more and more a right of rich dutch elites to marry foreign partners and it also becomes more difficult to enter the netherlands on the whole.

Also the possibilities for 3rd state country prostitutes are not so much. Even for women from the new EU-member states it’s quite hard to get a permission for prostitution and for women from 3rd state countries it’s nearly impossible…..