Download or read book Experience of Intimate Partner Violence Among U S Born Immigrant and Migrant Latinas written by Andrea Hazen and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The three aims of this stratified random sample study were: (1) To assess the prevalence and patterns of intimate partner violence, including physical, sexual, and emotional/psychological abuse in three stratified groups of Latina women (a) Migrants: Migrant or seasonal workers (including immigrants and non-immigrants), (b) Immigrants: Immigrants, but not migrant or seasonal workers, and (c) U.S. born Latinas); (2) to identify differential risk and protective factors associated with this violence, which included examining the role of cultural (e.g. acculturation, acculturative stress, ethnic identity, self-efficacy), socioeconomic, psychosocial and social support factors; and based on these findings, (3) to outline specific implications of the findings for intimate partner violence prevention and intervention programming. The study used a quasi-experimental approach. The sample of 291 predominantly Mexican American Latinas revealed a high rate of lifetime and past year experience with IPV."--Abstract.

Download or read book Violence Against Latina Immigrants written by Roberta Villalon and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caught between violent partners and the bureaucratic complications of the US Immigration system, many immigrant women are particularly vulnerable to abuse. For two years, Roberta Villalón volunteered at a nonprofit group that offers free legal services to mostly undocumented immigrants who had been victims of abuse. Her innovative study of Latina survivors of domestic violence explores the complexities at the intersection of immigration, citizenship, and violence, and shows how inequality is perpetuated even through the well-intentioned delivery of vital services. Through archival research, participant observation, and personal interviews, Violence Against Latina Immigrants provides insight into the many obstacles faced by battered immigrant women of color, bringing their stories and voices to the fore. Ultimately, Villalón proposes an active policy advocacy agenda and suggests possible changes to gender violence-based immigration laws, revealing the complexities of the lives of Latina immigrants as they confront issues of citizenship, gender violence, and social inequalities.

Download or read book Yes I Can S Yo Puedo written by Catherine Luz Marrs Fuchsel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sí, Yo Puedo (SYP) curriculum is an 11-week educational program, conducted in Spanish and offered in a group format. Sessions are structured with goals, objectives, in-class self-reflection drawing and writing exercises, and instructions for mental health professionals. The SYP program focuses on education of healthy relationships, domestic violence, and improvement of self-esteem.

Download or read book Intimate Partner Violence and Help Seeking Among Hispanic Women in the United States written by Ruth Infante Lobaina and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to the World Health Organization (2012), intimate partner violence (IPV) affects individuals of any socioeconomic, religious, or cultural identity. Hispanics make up 18.7% of the United States population (Jones et al., 2021) and about half of the immigrant population in the United States are Hispanic (Budiman et al., 2020), yet research on Hispanic women who have experienced IPV is limited. The present study was a secondary data analysis of the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS) in the United States, and sought to examine differences in IPV, access to services, and barriers among Hispanic women born in the United States and abroad. Results indicated a significant difference between place they were born and their level of reporting physical violence. Specifically, Hispanic women born in the United States were more likely to report experiencing physical violence in the past 12-months compared to Hispanic women born outside of the country. There was no difference in rate of experiencing sexual violence in the past 12-months. Barriers and need for formal services such as medical, housing, victim's advocate, legal, and law enforcement were examined in an exploratory manner. Overall, findings from this study may be helpful in guiding interventions and offering resources that are sensitive to the unique needs and experiences of Hispanic women from different backgrounds.

Download or read book The Handbook of Race Ethnicity Crime and Justice written by Ramiro Martinez, Jr. and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-09-12 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook presents current and future studies on the changing dynamics of the role of immigrants and the impact of immigration, across the United States and industrialized and developing nations. It covers the changing dynamics of race, ethnicity, and immigration, and discusses how it all contributes to variations in crime, policing, and the overall justice system. Through acknowledging that some groups, especially people of color, are disproportionately influenced more than others in the case of criminal justice reactions, the “War on Drugs”, and hate crimes; this Handbook introduces the importance of studying race and crime so as to better understand it. It does so by recommending that researchers concentrate on ethnic diversity in a national and international context in order to broaden their demographic and expand their understanding of how to attain global change. Featuring contributions from top experts in the field, The Handbook of Race and Crime is presented in five sections—An Overview of Race, Ethnicity, Crime, and Justice; Theoretical Perspectives on Race and Crime; Race, Gender, and the Justice System; Gender and Crime; and Race, Gender and Comparative Criminology. Each section of the book addresses a key area of research, summarizes findings or shortcomings whenever possible, and provides new results relevant to race/crime and justice. Every contribution is written by a top expert in the field and based on the latest research. With a sharp focus on contemporary race, ethnicity, crime, and justice studies, The Handbook of Race and Crime is the ideal reference for advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and scholars interested in the disciplines such as Criminology, Race and Ethnicity, Race and the Justice System, and the Sociology of Race.

Download or read book Hispanics and the Future of America written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2006-02-23 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hispanics and the Future of America presents details of the complex story of a population that varies in many dimensions, including national origin, immigration status, and generation. The papers in this volume draw on a wide variety of data sources to describe the contours of this population, from the perspectives of history, demography, geography, education, family, employment, economic well-being, health, and political engagement. They provide a rich source of information for researchers, policy makers, and others who want to better understand the fast-growing and diverse population that we call "Hispanic." The current period is a critical one for getting a better understanding of how Hispanics are being shaped by the U.S. experience. This will, in turn, affect the United States and the contours of the Hispanic future remain uncertain. The uncertainties include such issues as whether Hispanics, especially immigrants, improve their educational attainment and fluency in English and thereby improve their economic position; whether growing numbers of foreign-born Hispanics become citizens and achieve empowerment at the ballot box and through elected office; whether impending health problems are successfully averted; and whether Hispanics' geographic dispersal accelerates their spatial and social integration. The papers in this volume provide invaluable information to explore these issues.

Download or read book Cultivating Care written by Miriam G. Valdovinos and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Researchers have acknowledged the deleterious effects of intimate partner violence (IPV) and have incorporated findings into prevention and intervention practices, but research with Latina/o immigrant communities remains limited. By combining Chicana feminist theory and intersectionality frameworks to existing IPV survivorship models, this study explores contextual factors impacting IPV experiences in Latina/o communities. This study investigated the immigration context impacts on IPV experiences for 20 Latina immigrants living in western Washington State. It also explored survivor strengths and hopes to imagine futures without violence. Culturally-relevant testimonio methodology was used to qualitatively investigate the complexity of IPV and how immigration status, ethnicity, class, gender, and informal/formal social supports impacted the experience. One-on-one testimonio interviews were conducted on two different time points with each of the interviewees. Thematic and narrative analyses revealed racialized, gendered, classed, and nativist injustices Latina immigrants experienced along with healing, empowerment, and advocacy when seeking social support. Seeking support from informal and formal social support systems as undocumented individuals meant they encountered barriers attached to their immigration status. Latina immigrant women’s cultural experiences of IPV were mediated through structural forms of oppression, such as racism and economic exploitation especially when they interacted with formal social support systems. Findings informed social work practice regarding identity intersectionalities that increase IPV vulnerabilities for undocumented women and contribute to culturally-responsive interventions.

Download or read book The Cage I Built written by MacDonald Metzger and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-22 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "The Cage I Built: Perspectives on Intimate Partner Violence in African Immigrant Communities," Metzger examines the problem of "intimate partner violence" (IPV) amongst African immigrants in the United States. He reveals that IPV is more common than he thought. Writing from his personal experience, Metzger takes the reader through IPV and how it adversely affects African immigrant women. Throughout the book, Metzger takes a more elaborate approach to discuss IPV prevalence, risk factors, and barriers to seeking help. IPV remains a public health challenge globally. Metzger does well in providing more information about an issue such as IPV that is hardly spoken about in African immigrant communities despite its pervasiveness. Research on Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) has given little attention to the study of IPV or domestic abuse among African immigrants in the U.S. While there are many research studies and books on IPV in the Asian, Hispanic, and Latino communities, Metzger's book is the first on the subject in African immigrant communities in the U.S. The Cage I Built provides an insider's perspective on the problem of partner abuse or domestic abuse within African immigrant communities in the United States. Editorial ReviewMany IPV victims fail to seek help despite the presence of services to support and protect the victims. Metzger provides a vivid description, cautiously choosing his language to make the less discussed topic attract more attention. The distrust of the available community services, cultural and religious factors, and the socioeconomic status of the African immigrants bar them from seeking help. Many women victims are reluctant to seek help because of a lack of trust in the community support systems. The author interestingly identifies a problem that calls for action to help the victims of IPV. The article, therefore, provides more helpful information that arouses a call for action. Metzger provides a detailed analysis of the issue of IPV amongst African immigrants. He presents his points uniquely and uses his own experience to make the reader understand the problem's seriousness. While concluding, the author asks for action, telling men to avoid abusive relationships. He makes the reader understand that IPV is a serious problem than people thought, hence the urgency for a community response. Agnes Fallah Kamara - CEO/ Advocate, Radio Journalist, Author, Straight From The Heart International, INCThe views expressed in that book by Dr. Metzger are still alive and practiced among the African immigrant families in the United States. There is a saying that "you can take people out of Africa, but you cannot take Africa out of them." Since domestic abuse is not seen as a public health or mental health issue in their countries of origin, the behavior is also migrated with them. Changes in traditional family structures, gender roles, and responsibilities are factors impacting healthy living among our immigrant communities. Women report multiple instances of abuse and a sense of frustration. Your book alluded to reasons which some are economic and traditional too! Thanks for such contribution to knowledge.Richard B. Oni, Ph. -Director of Services and Training, Progressive Individual Resources Inc.Who is this book for? This book is relevant for: *African immigrant women who are living with an abusive partner and want to learn about resources and supports that are available to them. *African immigrant youth and adults who are perpetrators of IPV and want to change their behaviors and attitudes. *Anyone who wants to learn about IPV in African immigrant communities. *Professionals who work in the human and social services field in African immigrant communities.

Download or read book Making the Invisible Visible written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Intimate Partner Violence Prevention and Intervention written by Anna C. Baldry and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the importance of assessing risk in domestic violence cases to prevent and reduce its escalation into homicide (so called uxoricide). Spousal killers in a substantial number of cases exhibit a history of prior spousal violence: in addition to this, witnessing violence has debilitating effects on children. For this reason domestic violence is also becoming a hot political issue on the European agenda. Integrating the US and Canadian experiences with the European ones increases the book's value and broadens perspectives. Assessing the risk and adopting appropriate measures can help reduce the risk of escalation of violence. It aims at gathering contributions from experts in the field of domestic violence and victimisation to present state of the art research in the risk assessment of domestic violence cases.

Download or read book Violence Never Heals written by Allison Bloom and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2023-06-27 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores experiences with disability and aging for immigrant survivors of domestic violence across the life course Across the United States, one in three women experiences violence in their intimate relationships. More resources are now being devoted to providing these women with immediate care; but what happens to survivors, especially those from marginalized communities, as they grow older and grapple with the long-term effects? In Violence Never Heals, Allison Bloom presents a life-course perspective on the disabling experience of violence in Latina immigrant communities. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork performed in a Latina program at an Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) crisis center, Bloom offers insights into the long-term effects of systemic and gender-based violence, revealing that these experiences become subtly disabling long before old age. Drawing from her own background as a practitioner, Bloom further details how current IPV services fail to acknowledge and accommodate such effects, in large part because of their disproportionate focus on younger survivors and the particular development of the domestic violence services field. She offers both scholars and practitioners concrete strategies for how they can alter their approaches to better treat and mitigate the lifelong effects of domestic violence. Violence Never Heals addresses a glaring omission in IPV scholarship, providing both an aging-focused perspective on IPV as well as laying out concrete steps for how to implement this perspective in pursuit of more comprehensive treatment.

Download or read book Global Social Work written by Bala Nikku and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited book, Global Social Work - Cutting Edge Issues and Critical Reflections, presents global social work expertise, practical tools, and an iterative and reflective process for developing a global social work pedagogy that advances deep disciplinary learning. The authors offer the specifics of a justice based, decolonizing global social work education and practice. This book will be an asset to faculty communities interested in specializing in global social work. The book offers hope that the faculty, students, and practitioners of social work develop an intercultural, international, cross-border critical approach that further prepares them to meet the global standards of social work education and research and at the same time skillfully act, advocate, and transform global communities and their role in a globalized world.

Download or read book Are Mexican Immigrant and Mexican American Female Victims of Intimate Partner Violence Being Served in Memphis Tennessee written by M. Helena Vanderlei Collins and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-06 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Domestic violence against women is an oppressive condition that extends across race, class, and gender. This work examines intimate partner violence against women in Memphis, Tennessee, focusing on Mexican immigrant and Mexican American female survivors of domestic violence. Author M. Helena Vanderlei Collins interviewed ten Mexican immigrant women and seven Mexican American women to investigate factors that influence helpseeking behavior. Collins focused on the perceptions of Mexican immigrant and Mexican American women regarding the social services available to them and explored how their help-seeking behavior is affected by their degree of acculturation and the incidence of intimate partner violence. Collins employed a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods to answer seven key research questions. The quantitative instruments included ARSMA-II, the Inventory of Abusive Behavior, and a customized demographic questionnaire. The qualitative data was drawn from the semi-structured interviews with the domestic violence survivors. Collins concluded her study by describing the challenges women of Hispanic origin face when seeking help from social service providers and by offering recommendations on how to improve the quality of services these women receive.

Download or read book Immigrant Latinas Experience of Violence by Male Partners written by Victoria Eugenia Acevedo and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Violence Against Latina Immigrants written by Roberta Villalon and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2010-06-07 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A meaningful documentation of the ways in which structural and cultural conditions in current immigration and violence against women laws in the United States reinforce the hierarchies and intersections of race, class, and heterosexuality that impact on the lives of battered Latina immigrants."---Natalie J. Sokoloff, author of Domestic Violence at the Margins: Readings in Race, Class, Gender, and Culture --

Download or read book Preventative Intimate Partner Violence Program for Latina Immigrants written by Delsy M. Sandoval and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this project is first to create a more complete picture of the Latina experience of intimate partner violence (IPV) by exposing and demystifying the unique belief systems, values, norms, and aspects of Latino culture which make Latinas more susceptible to IPV as well as recognizing those vital cultural principles which may help prevent violence in future generations. Secondly, this project provides cross-culturally appropriate materials in the form of an informational guidebook containing suggestions for creating an atmosphere of advocacy and support as well as a step-by-step guide to working with Latinas based on an ecological perspective and Yalom's group therapy principles through a preventative lens. These materials are intended to aid mental health professionals in creating preventative IPV programs for Latinas in their own communities as well as overall increasing awareness, advocacy, and support for multicultural women living with IPV.

Download or read book Advancing the Federal Research Agenda on Violence Against Women written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2004-02-27 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report expands on the work of an earlier National Research Council panel whose report, Understanding Violence Against Women, was published in 1996. The report is based on the presentations and deliberations of a workshop convened in January 2002, at the request of Congress, to develop a detailed research agenda on violence against women. While some of the research recommendations in the earlier report have been funded and carried out, the workshop demonstrated that important gaps remain. For example, prevalence and incidence data are still inadequate to measure trends or to reveal whether interventions being designed under federal programs are, in fact, working. Among its primary recommendations, the committee underscored the importance of strengthening the data and research infrastructure in this area, especially the need for better prevalence data and longitudinal data to determine the causes of violent victimization of women and the impact of interventions.