Immigration Policies and Immigrant Women’s Vulnerability to Intimate Partner Violence in Canada

This article explores Canadian immigration policies’ influence on immigrant and newcomer women’s vulnerability to intimate partner violence in Canada. Neoliberal policies’ influence on immigration policies and restructuring of the welfare state, the creation of structural conditions that increase im...

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Published in:Journal of international migration and integration 2018-05, Vol.19 (2), p.339-348
Main Author: Jayasuriya-Illesinghe, Vathsala
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Abuse
Access
Aggression
Cultural identity
Demography
Distinctiveness
Domestic violence
Females
Immigrants
Immigration
Immigration policy
Intimate partner violence
Migration
Multiculturalism & pluralism
Neoliberalism
Noncitizens
Policies
Population Economics
Services
Social Sciences
Sociology
Values
Violence
Vulnerability
Welfare state
Women
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Summary:This article explores Canadian immigration policies’ influence on immigrant and newcomer women’s vulnerability to intimate partner violence in Canada. Neoliberal policies’ influence on immigration policies and restructuring of the welfare state, the creation of structural conditions that increase immigrant and newcomer women’s vulnerability to intimate partner violence while restricting their access to services that can help them seek recourse from such abuse, are discussed. The underlying question raised and discussed in this article is whether cultural identity and distinctiveness could be used to rationalize exclusionary policies that are contrary to the ideals of multiculturalism in Canada.
ISSN:1488-3473
1874-6365
DOI:10.1007/s12134-018-0545-5