Kyriakakis Stavroula, Dawson Beverly Araujo, Edmond Tonya
Adelphi University, Nassau County, New York, USA.
Violence Vict. 2012;27(4):548-62. doi: 10.1891/0886-6708.27.4.548.
This phenomenological qualitative study examines intimate partner violence (IPV) experienced by a sample of 29 Mexican immigrant women residing in New York and St. Louis. The findings reveal important insights about culturally specific abuse tactics employed by batterers and the forms of abuse that are experienced as most hurtful to the survivors. Ten different abusive tactics emerged: verbal, economic, physical, sexual, and extended family abuse, social isolation, physical abuse of children, stalking and monitoring, stolen bride, and sex trafficking. Cultural values and expectations appear to be inextricably linked to how the participants characterized the severity of each of the abusive tactics as evidenced by which abusive behaviors the participants found most hurtful. The findings will help service providers have a better understanding of the role cultural context plays in the IPV experiences of Mexican immigrant women.
这项现象学定性研究考察了居住在纽约和圣路易斯的29名墨西哥移民妇女样本所经历的亲密伴侣暴力（IPV）。研究结果揭示了关于施虐者所采用的特定文化虐待策略以及幸存者认为最具伤害性的虐待形式的重要见解。出现了十种不同的虐待策略：言语虐待、经济虐待、身体虐待、性虐待、对大家庭的虐待、社会隔离、对儿童的身体虐待、跟踪和监视、抢婚以及性交易。文化价值观和期望似乎与参与者如何界定每种虐待策略的严重程度有着千丝万缕的联系，这一点从参与者认为最具伤害性的虐待行为中得到了证明。这些研究结果将有助于服务提供者更好地理解文化背景在墨西哥移民妇女的亲密伴侣暴力经历中所起的作用。
