migrant women’s access to protection for family violence in Belgium
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Publish Year
- 2012
- Shelfmark
- Digitaal
- Thesaurus
- allochtonen, huiselijk geweld, gezinsherenigingen, vreemdelingenrecht, wetgeving, België, 21e eeuw, rapport
- Description
- 'Belgian law and policy recognizes that migrant women who arrive in Belgium to join their spouse, fiancé, or civil partner are particularly vulnerable if they experience abuse. Similarly to many European Union (EU) countries, migrant women who join a Belgian or EU national or long-term resident from non-EU countries are granted a conditional residence permit for three years. After their arrival in Belgium, most of these family migrants must wait six to twelve months before their application for family reunification is processed and they receive a provisional residence permit. If the relationship with the partner they joined ends before the probationary period of three years, they lose residency rights and must leave the country.'