“He Has Me Tied with the Blessed and Damned Papers”: Undocumented-Immigrant Battered Women in Phoenix, Arizona

Salcido, Olivia; Adelman, Madelaine

doi:10.17730/humo.63.2.v5w7812lpxextpbw

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“…Scholars argue that undocumented or legally dependent female immigrants experience IPV in different ways from that of citizens [4,49] and at much higher rates than in the general populations [50]. Similar to other battered women, female immigrants fear their batterers, but their anxiety is exacerbated by their legal and political vulnerability [4,51].…”

Section: The Problem Of Ipv In Greecementioning

confidence: 99%

“…While written in a gender-neutral language, these migration policies actually made it less achievable for Albanian immigrant women to benefit from migration, and increased their burden if they lived in an abusive relationship. The study of 2009 showed that many Albanian women entered Greece through the family reunion migration legislation 3 , which was the second major legal channel to enter Greece [49]. However, having one's legal status dependent on the legal status of one's husband (the sponsor), forced women into a subordinate and vulnerable position within their family and the larger society.…”

Section: Challenges Of Migration That Reinforce Traditional Gender Rolesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Domestic Violence against Albanian Immigrant Women in Greece: Facing Patriarchy

Poteyeva

Wasileski

2016

Social Sciences

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Abstract:Immigration is becoming an increasingly important policy concern in Europe and in many other nations. Importantly, there is an ever-growing number of women who migrate, many of whom are undocumented. Violence against immigrant women is nearly impossible to estimate. However, immigrant women who are abused face multiple barriers to seeking legal protection from the abuse as a result of their migration status, their positions within family and the host country. This paper examines the issues related to intimate partner violence within the Albanian immigrant community in Greece. It explores how the situation in Greek society and the labor market (such as social policies, xenophobic attitudes, job segregation and the prevailing economic crisis) changed the traditional gender roles and distribution of the power within Albanian families and increased intimate partner violence (IPV). The study found evidence of an increase in IPV in the aftermath of the economic crisis, which could be explained by the ideology of familial patriarchy. Battered immigrant women also face challenges in the Greek criminal justice system, which is also influenced by patriarchal values, when they are seeking relief and assistance in cases of interpersonal violence.

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Section: The Problem Of Ipv In Greecementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Challenges Of Migration That Reinforce Traditional Gender Rolesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Domestic Violence against Albanian Immigrant Women in Greece: Facing Patriarchy

Poteyeva

Wasileski

2016

Social Sciences

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“…There is also a good number of ethnographic studies of the undocumented immigrants (Bhimji, 2010, Cleaveland, 2012Menjivar and Abrego, 2012;Salcido and Adelman, 2004). Most recently, a few studies have surfaced using state-based administrative data such as state wage records in the state of Georgia (Hotchkiss and Quispe-Agnoli, 2013) and records from use of emergency rooms in North Carolina hospitals.…”

Section: Documenting the Lives Of Undocumented Immigrantsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These different data sources have documented many aspects of undocumented immigrant lives such as food insecurity (Hadley et al, 2008), domestic violence (Salcido and Adelman, 2004), wages and employment (Hotchkiss and Quispe-Agnoli, 2013;Mehta et al, 2002), type of emergency care service used (DuBard and Massin, 2007), effects of economic trends on migrants lives (Cleaveland), labor rights violations (Bernhardt et al, 2009), the job quality (Enchautegui, 2008), and daily laborers (Bhimji, 2010), among others.…”

Section: Documenting the Lives Of Undocumented Immigrantsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Immigration, Applied Research on

Enchautegui

2015

International Encyclopedia of the Social &Amp; Behavioral Sciences

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“…Vatnar and Bjorkly's (2010) study of 157 Norwegian help seeking women found that while immigrant women were better at predicting physical violence than ethnic Norwegian women, they had an increased risk of physical injury when it resulted from sexual IPV. Anderson's (1993) and Salcido and Adelman's (2004) contributions to the literature document how battering may lead to illegality and how immigration policies may lead to men's battering. In their notable 2004 ethnographic study of undocumented battered Mexican women in the Southwest borderland of Phoenix, Arizona, Salcido and Adelman conclude that "the structural contraction of the state's responsibility for the public good through the reduction of assistance to the economically marginalized has resulted in the feminization of poverty among immigrants specifically, and among the stigmatized, nearly invisible population of illegal crossers especially" (p. 170).…”

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Quiet Casualties: An Analysis of U Non-Immigrant Status of Undocumented Immigrant Victims of Intimate Partner Violence

Levine

Peffer

2012

International Journal of Public Administration

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Although immigration policy is a key component of public administration scholarship in the United States, research into Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) for both documented and particularly undocumented immigrants has been tangential in focus. This exploratory study questions 1. the effect of immigration reform on U.S. undocumented immigrant women of IPV and 2. how changes in the number of undocumented immigrants affect IPV victimization rates and the regulations concerning U non-immigrant status.A least-square trend line suggests that the 10,000 U visa applications permitted annually will not cover the undocumented female population of IPV let alone the victims qualified under the U non-immigrant status. Based on a review of the laws and policies regarding the U-Visa we provide several recommendations to reform immigration laws directed toward immigrant victims of IPV. This study adds to the growing, but still weak body of knowledge on abused immigrant female populations in the United States and how federal legislation toward immigration reform and policy will help these women become valuable contributors to our society.

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“He Has Me Tied with the Blessed and Damned Papers”: Undocumented-Immigrant Battered Women in Phoenix, Arizona

Cited by 92 publications

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Domestic Violence against Albanian Immigrant Women in Greece: Facing Patriarchy

Domestic Violence against Albanian Immigrant Women in Greece: Facing Patriarchy

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Quiet Casualties: An Analysis of U Non-Immigrant Status of Undocumented Immigrant Victims of Intimate Partner Violence

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