Failing 'Abyan', 'Golestan' and 'the Estonian Mother': Refugee Women, Reproductive Coercion and the Australian State

2020 ◽  
pp. 9-26
Author(s):  
Catherine Kevin ◽  
Karen Agutter
Keyword(s):  
Refugee Women ◽  
Reproductive Coercion ◽  
Australian State

scholarly journals Communicating Reproductive Coercion in the Context of Domestic and Family Violence: Perspectives of Service Providers Supporting Migrant and Refugee Women

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicola Sheeran ◽  
Laura Tarzia ◽  
Heather Douglas
Keyword(s):  
Family Violence ◽  
Help Seeking ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Refugee Women ◽  
Reproductive Coercion ◽  
Conceptual Clarity ◽  
Shared Language ◽  
Police Encounters ◽  
Key Barrier

Abstract The current study explored the language barriers to help-seeking in the context of reproductive coercion and abuse (RCA), domestic and family violence (DFV), and sexual violence (SV), drawing on observations by key informants supporting women from migrant and refugee communities. A lack of shared language has been identified as a key barrier to help seeking for migrant and refugee women experiencing DFV more broadly, though how language intersects with help seeking in the context of RCA is yet to be investigated. We conducted 6 focus groups with 38 lawyers, counsellors, and social workers supporting women experiencing DFV in Brisbane and Melbourne, Australia. Our findings address two main areas. First, consistent with past research in DFV, our participants identified language as a barrier for women when communicating about sexual and reproductive issues in the context of health and police encounters. More specifically, our findings suggest that the inability of health professionals and police to communicate with women who have low or no English proficiency not only negatively impacted victims/survivors’ ability to access support, but also facilitated the perpetration of RCA. We conclude that language can be a mechanism through which coercive control is enacted by perpetrators of RCA and health and policing systems may not be equipped to recognise and address this issue. We also suggest that greater conceptual clarity of RCA is needed within the DFV sector in order to tailor responses.

Vietnamese Refugee Women: Factors Associated With Job Procurement Self-Efficacy

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Codi L. Whaley ◽  
Johanna E. Nilsson ◽  
Chris Brown
Keyword(s):  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Refugee Women ◽  
Vietnamese Refugee

Preventing the consequences of human rights abuse: The case of refugee women

1994 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia J. Campbell ◽  
Peter W. Van Arsdale
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Refugee Women ◽  
Human Rights Abuse

Experiences of Burmese Chin refugee women: Trauma and survival from pre- to postflight.

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Achu Johnson Alexander ◽  
Jeffrey Jensen Arnett ◽  
S. P. K. Jena
Keyword(s):  
Refugee Women

Gender and Social Exclusion in European Migration Crisis

2018 ◽  
pp. 658-676
Author(s):  
Marlou Schrover
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
The Other ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Refugee Women ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Migration Crisis ◽  
The One ◽  
European Migration

This chapter discusses social exclusion in European migration from a gendered and historical perspective. It discusses how from this perspective the idea of a crisis in migration was repeatedly constructed. Gender is used in this chapter in a dual way: attention is paid to differences between men and women in (refugee) migration, and to differences between men and women as advocates and claim makers for migrant rights. There is a dilemma—recognized mostly for recent decades—that on the one hand refugee women can be used to generate empathy, and thus support. On the other hand, emphasis on women as victims forces them into a victimhood role and leaves them without agency. This dilemma played itself out throughout the twentieth century. It led to saving the victims, but not to solving the problem. It fortified rather than weakened the idea of a crisis.

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