Understanding quality in services supporting women survivors of gender-based violence

2013 ◽  
Vol 23 (7) ◽  
pp. 826-839 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michaela Raab ◽  
Jasmin Rocha
Keyword(s):  
Women Survivors ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Gender Based

scholarly journals Punishing Survivors and Criminalizing Survivorship: A Feminist Intersectional Approach to Migrant Justice in the Crimmigration System

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (14) ◽  
pp. 67-89
Author(s):  
Salina Abji
Keyword(s):  
Women Survivors ◽  
Access To Justice ◽  
Migrant Women ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Analytical Strategy ◽  
Migrant Populations ◽  
The Us ◽  
Canadian Context ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender

Scholars have identified crimmigration – or the criminalization of “irregular” migration in law – as a key issue affecting migrant access to justice in contemporary immigrant-receiving societies. Yet the gendered and racialized implications of crimmigration for diverse migrant populations remains underdeveloped in this literature. This study advances a feminist intersectional approach to crimmigration and migrant justice in Canada. I add to recent research showing how punitive immigration controls disproportionately affect racialized men from the global south, constituting what Golash-Boza and Hondagneu-Sotelo have called a “gendered racial removal program” (2013). In my study, I shift analytical attention to consider the effects of the contemporary crimmigration system on migrant women survivors of gender-based violence. While such cases constitute a small sub-group within a larger population of migrants in detention, nevertheless scholarly attention to this group can expose the multiple axes along which state power is enacted – an analytical strategy that foundational scholars like Crenshaw (1991) used to theorize “structural intersectionality” in the US. In focusing on crimmigration in the Canadian context, I draw attention to the growing nexus between migration, security, and gender-based violence that has emerged alongside other processes of crimmigration. I then provide a case analysis of the 2013 death while in custody of Lucía Dominga Vega Jiménez, an “undocumented” migrant woman from Mexico. My analysis illustrates how migrant women’s strategies to survive gender-based violence are re-cast as grounds for their detention and removal, constituting what I argue is a criminalization of survivorship.The research overall demonstrates the centrality of gendered and racialized structural violence in crimmigration processes by challenging more universalist approaches to migrant justice.

Psychological Reactions to Different Types of Gender-Based Violence in Women Survivors of Violence in the Context of a Developing Country

2021 ◽  
pp. 088626052110479
Author(s):  
Farzana Akter ◽  
Farah Deeba
Keyword(s):  
Substance Abuse ◽  
Suicidal Ideation ◽  
Women Survivors ◽  
Emotional Abuse ◽  
Predictive Ability ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Economic Violence ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Forms Of Violence

Literature on the psychological effects on women survivors of violence (WSV) suggests there may be a relationship between the specific type of gender-based violence and patterns in the development of mental health consequences. Understanding these relationships would support early targeted (or early specialist) intervention. Since violence against women in families is a common social health problem in developing countries, the study attempted to explore the abuse specific reaction patterns within such a context. A total of 600 WSV ( mean age = 26.86, SD = 7.47) were recruited from different social service organizations working for WSV in Bangladesh. To identify the type of gender-based violence (i.e., physical, sexual, emotional, psychological, and economic violence) experienced and psychiatric sequelae (i.e., post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety, depression, suicidal ideation, and substance abuse) in WSV, multiple reliable and valid measures were used. The results of the hierarchical multiple regression analysis showed that amongst the various different types of violence, only psychological, sexual, and economic violence have a significant independent predictive ability on PTSD, anxiety, and depression in the Bangladeshi WSV. Violence related factors such as witnessing violence in childhood among parents and history of childhood abuse had the unique predictive ability on suicidal ideation and substance abuse, respectively. Our result suggested that accepting physical and emotional abuse at any stage of life is very common for Bangladeshi women. This study suggested that non-physical forms of violence have the most significant independent predictive ability in the development of psychiatric symptoms. It is suggested that to develop appropriate support services for WSV within this socio-cultural context, further research is required which focuses on the psychological impact of non-physical forms of violence.

scholarly journals Support Programs for Women Survivors of Sexualized Gender-Based Violence From African Conflict Zones: A Contextual Review

SAGE Open ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 215824401878434 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philomina Okeke-Ihejirika ◽  
Sophie Yohani ◽  
Claire McMenemy
Keyword(s):  
Women Survivors ◽  
Support Programs ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Conflict Zones ◽  
Gender Based

scholarly journals Personal Tools and Psychosocial Resources of Resilient Gender-Based Violence Women

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (16) ◽  
pp. 8306
Author(s):  
Rebeca García Montes ◽  
Inmaculada Corral Liria ◽  
Raquel Jimenez Fernandez ◽  
Rocío Rodriguez Vázquez ◽  
Ricardo Becerro de Bengoa Vallejo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Women Survivors ◽  
Health Problem ◽  
Public Health Problem ◽  
Social Resources ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Support Mechanisms ◽  
Gender Based

Gender-based violence is considered a serious social and public health problem. Overcoming this situation implies a process that results in the favorable biopsychosocial rehabilitation of the resilience of women. The objective of this study was to analyze the tools, resources and personal and psychosocial mechanisms used by women survivors of gender-based violence. The design was an interpretative phenomenology. It was carried out with 22 women who have overcome gender-based violence. Data were collected through personal interviews and narration. The results were grouped into four themes: “Process of violence”, “Social resources for coping and overcoming GBV”, “Personal tools for coping and overcoming GBV” and “Feelings identified, from the abuse stage to the survival stage”. Several studies concluded that overcoming abuse is influenced by the women’s social network, and it can be the action of these people determining their survival to gender violence. Despite the recognized usefulness of these available resources, it would be desirable to strengthen them in order to be able to drive more women toward survival, assuming a strengthening of coping and overcoming, without forgetting the importance of other support mechanisms, such as their family and group therapies.

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