Yalcinoz-Ucan Busra, Tastsoglou Evangelia, Dawson Myrna
GBV-MIG Canada Research Program, Saint Mary's University, Halifax Regional Municipality, NS, Canada.
Department of Sociology, Saint Mary's University, Halifax Regional Municipality, NS, Canada.
Front Sociol. 2025 Mar 4;10:1528525. doi: 10.3389/fsoc.2025.1528525. eCollection 2025.
This study examines the experiences of migrant women survivors of gender-based violence (GBV) in Canada, focusing on their processes of disclosing violence and seeking help. It explores a range of migration-related factors and circumstances that shape migrant women's responses to violence while also aiming to reveal how migration contexts determine system-and structural-level responses to GBV, which are then traced back to women's individual experiences and responses. Based on 17 in-depth interviews with migrant women and using a situated intersectionality perspective, our findings demonstrate first how GBV in migration is uniquely shaped and (re)produced by precarity, rooted in structural, socioeconomic, and legal conditions that translate into heightened vulnerability at the individual level. We showed that migration contexts increased women's vulnerability to GBV, as perpetrators exploited precarity to manipulate and control women, illustrating the continuum of precarity-GBV. Secondly, this manipulation, controlling behaviors, and abuse of migrant women by perpetrators are enabled by migration policies and practices that give rise to their precarity. Additionally, our participants reported a lack of supportive social networks, which, in combination with the fear of cultural stigmatization, created a double bind hindering their processes of seeking safety. Furthermore, systemic responses to migrant women experiencing GBV were found to be inadequate, with discriminatory and negligent attitudes in healthcare, police, and legal systems. This is the continuum of systemic-individual level violence. Our findings enhance both the theoretical and empirical understanding of the continuum (i) between precarity and GBV and (ii) between systemic and individual forms of GBV in migration contexts, where precarity exacerbates GBV, and vice versa, creating a vicious cycle that deepens individual experiences of vulnerability, while the systemic and structural forms of violence contribute/(re)produce individual experiences of GBV.
本研究考察了加拿大遭受基于性别的暴力（GBV）的移民女性幸存者的经历，重点关注她们披露暴力行为和寻求帮助的过程。它探讨了一系列与移民相关的因素和情况，这些因素塑造了移民女性对暴力的反应，同时旨在揭示移民背景如何决定对GBV的系统层面和结构层面的反应，而这些反应又可追溯到女性的个人经历和反应。基于对移民女性的17次深度访谈，并采用情境交叉性视角，我们的研究结果首先表明，移民中的GBV如何由不稳定状况独特地塑造和（再）产生，这种不稳定状况植根于结构、社会经济和法律条件，这些条件在个体层面转化为更高的脆弱性。我们发现，移民背景增加了女性遭受GBV的脆弱性，因为施暴者利用不稳定状况来操纵和控制女性，说明了不稳定与GBV的连续性。其次，施暴者对移民女性的这种操纵、控制行为和虐待是由导致她们不稳定的移民政策和做法所促成的。此外，我们的参与者报告说缺乏支持性的社会网络，这与对文化污名化的恐惧相结合，造成了一种双重束缚，阻碍了她们寻求安全的进程。此外，研究发现，对遭受GBV的移民女性的系统反应不足，医疗、警察和法律系统存在歧视性和疏忽的态度。这就是系统层面与个体层面暴力的连续性。我们的研究结果增进了对以下两个连续体的理论和实证理解：（i）不稳定与GBV之间的连续体，以及（ii）移民背景下系统形式与个体形式的GBV之间的连续体，在这种背景下，不稳定加剧了GBV，反之亦然，形成了一个恶性循环，加深了个体的脆弱性体验，而系统和结构形式的暴力促成/（再）产生了个体遭受GBV的经历。
