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- Title
Constructions of Battered Asian Indian Marriage Migrants: The Narratives of Domestic Violence Advocates.
- Authors
Kapur, Sonia; Zajicek, Anna
- Abstract
How are the images of abused South Asian marriage migrants shaped by domestic violence advocates? We explore the social constructions of battered Asian Indian marriage migrants in the victim advocates’ narratives. First, we find the narratives both reproduce and challenge the dominant stereotypes, utilizing some individualistic typifications while constructing these images with an understanding of the broader context of battered South Asian women’s experiences. Second, depending on the issue (e.g., economic dependence or religion), the advocates paint either a multidimensional or a one-dimensional picture of their clients. We emphasize the need for further intersectional studies of the images of abused immigrants constructed by victim advocates.
- Subjects
PSYCHOLOGY of abused women; ASIANS; DOMESTIC violence; INTERVIEWING; MARRIAGE; NOMADS; NONPROFIT organizations; RESEARCH funding; STATISTICAL sampling; VICTIM psychology; SOCIAL constructionism; NARRATIVES; CONSUMER activism; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
Violence Against Women, 2018, Vol 24, Issue 16, p1928
- ISSN
1077-8012
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1077801218757373