Njie-Carr Veronica P S, Sabri Bushra, Messing Jill T, Suarez Cecelia, Ward-Lasher Allison, Wachter Karin, Marea Christina X, Campbell Jacquelyn
Department of Organizational Systems and Adult Health School of Nursing, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD.
School of Nursing, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
J Aggress Maltreat Trauma. 2021;30(6):792-810. doi: 10.1080/10926771.2020.1796870. Epub 2020 Sep 29.
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.
移民妇女和难民妇女可能会面临诸多多方面且相互关联的障碍，这使她们遭受亲密伴侣暴力（IPV）的风险更高。本分析的目的是增进我们对移民妇女和难民妇女应对虐待情况的了解。我们对84名来自非洲、亚洲和拉丁美洲的移民妇女进行了深入访谈。“增强生存复原力”成为解释妇女在亲密伴侣暴力经历中保持安全并生存下来的能力的核心类别。面对她们所经历的暴力，该样本中的妇女表现出了非凡的复原力以及利用自身力量生存下来的能力。复原力作为一个过程和结果，可以促进赋权以及自我导向，以便获得医疗服务和资源来保障安全。所开发的“增强生存复原力模型”可作为一个框架，为支持受虐妇女的研究、政策和实践提供参考。
