Assisting Immigrant Victims of Domestic Violence

Advocate's Guide

BWJP

This guide for advocates and volunteers focuses on the needs of newly-arrived battered immigrant women whose immigration status is unsettled. It explores: how to more effectively respond to battered immigrant women; how immigration status is used as a weapon in domestic violence cases; the options open to immigrant victims, the documents they need, and when a referral to an immigration attorney should be made.

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Marital Rape

Kersti Yllo, Ph.D.

In order to fully and adequately respond to men who rape and women who are sexually assaulted, we must focus our attention on forced sex in marriage, not as an additional form of physical battering, but as a significant violation in and of itself, whether accompanied by other violence or not.

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National Center on Domestic and Sexual Violence

The National Center on Domestic and Sexual Violence designs, provides, and customizes training and consultation; influences policy; promotes collaboration; and enhances diversity with the goal of ending domestic violence.

View Website »  http://www.ncdsv.org/

Violence Against Native Women

A Guide for Practitioner Action

Office on Violence Against Women; National Center on Full Faith and Credit

This paper includes discussion of the theories of Native scholars regarding the sharp rise of the level of violence against Native women, as well as history and demographic information relevant to an overall understanding of the contemporary lives of Native women. This paper also reviews actions taken by the U.S. government and many tribal nations to respond to violence against Native women who have survived domestic or sexual violence.

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