Forced marriage in Europe: from a migration problem in a global world to the old phenomenon of gender violence

Abstract

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Forced marriage as a lived experience: Victims’ voices

“…(V 4)In this sense, the views of the interviewees reflect those from previous academic studies that warn against the use of criminal justice alone to combat the issue of forced marriage. This can place the victim in the double bind of being forced to report their own family of origin in order to obtain legal protection, and also having to submit to the dictates of Orientalism or racial discrimination (Askola, 2018; Ebeturk and Cowart, 2017; Gill and Anitha, 2011b; Igareda, 2017; Love et al, 2018; Patton, 2018; Sabbe et al, 2014; Sapoznik Evans, 2017; Torres, 2015; Villacampa, 2018).…”

“…Forced marriage is generally understood as a marriage that is held without the consent of one or both parties (FRA, 2014). The most traditional definitions only recognise cases in which coercion or agreement under duress is used to force one or both parties to marry, thus differentiating the practice from arranged marriage (Anitha and Gill, 2011a; Home Office, 2000; HM Government, 2010; Igareda, 2017). However, it has increasingly become the norm to understand such cases within a framework of gender-based violence (Bunting et al, 2016; Gill and Anitha, 2011a) and through an intersectional lens, according to which processes of power and subordination in postmodern society are not only explained by the binary system of sex and gender, but by a multiplicity of factors, such as race, class and gender (Crenshaw, 1989, 1991; Nixon and Humphreys, 2010; Sokoloff and Dupont, 2005).…”

El matrimonio forzado como manifestación de la violencia contra las mujeres: Aproximación comparada

“…El concepto jurídico restringido de MF adoptado en España y Alemania, sobre todo, e Irlanda en menor medida, pueden haber llevado a la academia e, incluso, al ámbito institucional a adoptar una concepción restringida del MF en los tres países. Este es, por ejemplo, el caso de un sector de la academia española, que considera el MF -en el que la falta de consentimiento o la contradicción a la voluntad de la parte se produce por violencia o intimidación-difiere del matrimonio concertado -en el que ambas partes consienten en la asistencia de terceras personas para la elección de cónyuge (De La Cuesta, 2015;Torres, 2015;Trapero, 2016;Igareda, 2017;Alcázar, 2023)-. En el plano institucional español, la Estrategia Estatal para la Erradicación de la Violencia contra las Mujeres 2013-2016, o la Estrategia Estatal para Combatir las Violencias Machistas 2022-2025, se basan en una concepción estrecha del concepto de MF, a diferencia de lo que sucede con el Protocolo para la Prevención y Gestión del Matrimonio Forzado catalán de 2020.…”