Isolation as a Form of Marital Violence: The South Asian Immigrant Experience |
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Authors: | Margaret Abraham |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY, 11549 |
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Abstract: | Isolation is an important factor in marital abuse among South Asian immigrant families. It lends itself to the invisibility immigrant women experience based on their ethno-gender status in the United States. Drawn from unstructured interviews with abused South Asian immigrant women, three different levels of isolation are explained. The first level involves the quality of a woman's relationship with her spouse; the second is related to the frequency and quality of social interaction with friends, relatives, and coworkers; and the third is explained in terms of the level of access to and participation in the ethnic community and other formal institutions. |
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Keywords: | isolation marital violence South Asian immigrants community |
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