VIVE-the Danish Center for Social Science Research, Copenhagen K, Denmark.
J Interpers Violence. 2022 Aug;37(15-16):NP13203-NP13225. doi: 10.1177/08862605211005137. Epub 2021 Apr 1.
Research has documented the considerable hardships immigrant women often face if they want to leave abusive relationships, but the cumulative impacts of such experiences have received insufficient scholarly attention. In response, this study investigates women's difficulties leaving abusive relationships based on life story interviews with 35 immigrant women who experienced partner abuse. Almost all the women originated from "patriarchal belt" countries in, for example, the Middle East and all arrived in Denmark as adults. Using a model of gendered geographies of power, this study examines key interview passages in which the women use dramatized speech to tell about their younger selves' interactions with significant others. These dramatized episodes of interactions emerge as crucial for the interviewees to communicate why they remained in abusive relationships for years and how most finally managed to leave their husbands. The narrated episodes reveal how the women's frequent lack of success in various interactional situations can be attributed to women "having the lower hand"-holding disadvantaged positions in the familial, social, and national hierarchies of power. These hierarchies reinforce each other, for example, when insecure residency status limits immigrant women's options to solicit help from Danish society. The analysis demonstrates that-in contrast to the stereotype of the abused immigrant woman as a passive victim-micro- and macro-level processes may work together to undermine immigrant women's possibilities to act independently at important junctures in their lives. The results also stress the importance that frontline workers have sufficient understanding of immigrant women's predicament and the ability to extend qualified and timely support. Such support can be crucial for abused immigrant women to become able to move away from their violent home environments.
研究记录了移民妇女如果想要离开虐待关系，往往会面临相当多的困难，但这种经历的累积影响还没有得到足够的学术关注。有鉴于此，本研究基于对 35 名遭受伴侣虐待的移民妇女的生活故事访谈，调查了妇女离开虐待关系的困难。这些女性几乎都来自中东等“父权制地带”国家，并且都是成年后来到丹麦的。本研究运用权力的性别地理模式，考察了女性在访谈中使用戏剧性语言讲述自己年轻时与重要他人互动的关键段落。这些戏剧性的互动片段对于受访者来说至关重要，因为她们通过这些片段来解释自己为何多年来一直处于虐待关系中，以及大多数人最终是如何成功离开丈夫的。所叙述的片段揭示了女性在各种互动情境中经常失败的原因，可以归因于女性在家庭、社会和国家权力等级中处于劣势地位。这些等级相互加强，例如，不稳定的居住身份限制了移民妇女向丹麦社会寻求帮助的选择。分析表明，与受虐移民妇女是被动受害者的刻板印象相反，微观和宏观层面的过程可能会共同削弱移民妇女在生活重要关头独立行动的可能性。研究结果还强调了一线工作者必须充分理解移民妇女的困境，并具备提供合格和及时支持的能力。这种支持对于受虐的移民妇女来说至关重要，因为这有助于她们摆脱暴力的家庭环境。
