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Domestic violence, deportation, and women's resistance: notes on managing inter-sectionality
JOURNAL: Development in Practice
VOLUME: 9 ISSUE: 1/2
THEME: Development Management in Practice
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AUTHOR:
Purna Sen
EDITED BY:
Deborah Eade
ISSN: 0961-4524 E-ISSN: 1364-9213
STOCK CODE: 002J0303
AVAILABILITY:
Available online only
PUBLISHER: Routledge
FORMAT:
Downloadable PDF
(pp: 6)
PUBLISHED:
Feb 1999
READERSHIP:
Professional and Practitioners, Activists and Campaigners, Postgraduate, Undergraduate,
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ABSTRACT
This Practical note describes the work of the Southall Black Sisters, a group, based in London, England, which provides a variety of assistance to, mainly Asian, women who have been victims of domestic violence and abuse. The author discusses how the UK legal system fails to help some of these women, as well as how patriarchal Asian social structures enable this abuse to go unchecked and unreported. The SBS consciously try to challenge on many fronts at once, working 'against gender and racial oppression (including religious fundamentalism and communalism) and...[operating] at the level of the family, the community, and the state.'
The views expressed in this article are those of the author(s) and do not
necessarily reflect the policies of Oxfam GB
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