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“Male-Order” Brides: Immigrant Women, Domestic Violence and Immigration Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Uma Narayan
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Abstract

This essay analyzes why women whose immigration status is dependent on their marriage face higher risks of domestic violence than women who are citizens and explores the factors that collude to prevent acknowledgment of their greater susceptibility to battering. It criticizes elements of current U.S. immigration policy that are detrimental to the welfare of battered immigrant women, and argues for changes that would make immigration policy more sensitive to their plight.

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Research Article
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Hypatia , Volume 10 , Issue 1: Special Issue: Feminist Ethics and Social Policy, Part 1 , Winter 1995 , pp. 104 - 119
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Copyright © 1995 by Hypatia, Inc.

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