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CRITICAL SOCIAL POLICY
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DOI: 10.1177/02610183231215232
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Black feminism; intersectionality; Netherlands; political claims-making; social citizenship
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This study examines the social rights claims of the Surinamese-Dutch feminist organization Ashanti between 1980 and 1987, shedding light on the mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion in the Dutch welfare state. The perspectives of Black feminists provide important insights into the lived experiences of individuals and families that deviate from the imagined citizens for whom the welfare state was designed.
Already in the 1980s, Black feminists contributed to political debates on the Dutch welfare state. Their intersectional analyses of social citizenship were directly based on the lived experiences of Black women in the Netherlands. However, then and now, these contributions have been largely overlooked in both Dutch politics and welfare state research, leading to social policies that do not correspond with the lived experiences of all women. Through archive research, and using the analytical framework of political claims-making, this article sheds light on the social rights claims of the Surinamese-Dutch feminist organization Ashanti that was active between 1980 and 1987. Their Black feminist perspectives provide important insights into the underlying mechanisms of in- and exclusion of the Dutch welfare state, from the standpoints of Dutch citizens and families that did not necessarily fit the picture of the imagined citizens for whom the Dutch welfare state was built.
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