TY - JOUR
T1 - Understanding Intimate Partner Violence among Immigrant and Refugee Women
T2 - A Grounded Theory Analysis
AU - Njie-Carr, Veronica P.S.
AU - Sabri, Bushra
AU - Messing, Jill T.
AU - Suarez, Cecilia
AU - Ward-Lasher, Allison
AU - Wachter, Karin
AU - Marea, Christina X.
AU - Campbell, Jacquelyn
N1 - Funding Information:
This research project is supported by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development of the National Institutes of Health under Grant Award Number 1 R01 HD081179 01A1 We are particularly grateful to the survivors who shared their stories and our community partners for their support and work on this project.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Immigrant and refugee women may experience considerable multifaceted and interrelated barriers that place them at heightened risk for intimate partner violence (IPV). The objective of this analysis was to increase our understanding of immigrant and refugee women’s responses to abuse. We conducted in-depth interviews with 84 women who immigrated from Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Engendering Resilience to Survive emerged as the core category explaining women’s strength to stay safe and survive IPV experiences. In the face of the violence they experienced, women in this sample demonstrated remarkable resilience and the ability to harness their strength to survive. Resilience as a process and outcome could facilitate empowerment, and self-directedness to access health services and resources to stay safe. The developed Engendering Resilience to Survive Model can be utilized as a framework to inform research, policy, and practice to support abused women.
AB - Immigrant and refugee women may experience considerable multifaceted and interrelated barriers that place them at heightened risk for intimate partner violence (IPV). The objective of this analysis was to increase our understanding of immigrant and refugee women’s responses to abuse. We conducted in-depth interviews with 84 women who immigrated from Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Engendering Resilience to Survive emerged as the core category explaining women’s strength to stay safe and survive IPV experiences. In the face of the violence they experienced, women in this sample demonstrated remarkable resilience and the ability to harness their strength to survive. Resilience as a process and outcome could facilitate empowerment, and self-directedness to access health services and resources to stay safe. The developed Engendering Resilience to Survive Model can be utilized as a framework to inform research, policy, and practice to support abused women.
KW - Acculturation
KW - domestic violence
KW - resilience
KW - safety
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U2 - 10.1080/10926771.2020.1796870
DO - 10.1080/10926771.2020.1796870
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85091732296
VL - 30
SP - 792
EP - 810
JO - Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment and Trauma
JF - Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment and Trauma
SN - 1092-6771
IS - 6
ER -