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“I Came Here, and it Got Worse Day by Day” : Examining the Intersections Between Migrant Precarity and Family Violence Among Women with Insecure Migration Status in Australia
Vasil, Stefani
Vasil, Stefani
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Abstract
While understanding the diversity of women's lived experiences is a key focus area in the international feminist literature on family violence, research with migrant women in Australia remains limited. This article seeks to contribute to the growing body of intersectional feminist scholarship that examines how immigration or “migration status” impacts the dynamics of migrant women's experiences of family violence. The article examines precarity in relation to migrant women's lives in Australia and focuses on the ways that their specific circumstances contribute to and are compounded by the experience of family violence. It also considers how precarity functions as a structural condition that has implications in terms of various forms or patterns of inequality that can heighten women's vulnerability to violence and undermine their efforts to ensure their safety and survival.
Keywords
migrant women, domestic and family violence, migration policies, migration status, precarity
Date
2024
Type
Journal article
Journal
Violence Against Women
Book
Volume
30
Issue
10
Page Range
2482-2510
Article Number
ACU Department
Thomas More Law School
Faculty of Law and Business
Faculty of Law and Business
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Published as ‘gold’ (paid) open access
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CC BY-NC 4.0
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Open
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Creative Commons License (CC BY-NC 4.0): This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).