IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/sae/indgen/v12y2005i2-3p427-451.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Domestic Violence and the Indian Diaspora in the United States

Author

Listed:
  • Margaret Abraham

    (Margaret Abraham is Professor, Department of Sociology, Hofstra University Hempstead, NY11549, USA. E-mail: margaret.abraham@hofstra.edu.)

Abstract

The profile of the current Asian Indian population in the United States is largely an outcome of immigration policies and practices. For most immigrants, including Asian Indians, gender, class and ethnic relations get reshaped as women and men adapt to life in a foreign country. This article discusses domestic violence among the Indian diaspora in the United States with insights from the staff of the community-based women's organisation, Sakhi for South Asian Women, in New York City. It provides a general overview of the Indian population in the United States and explains how immigration policies and regulations factor into immigrant women's experiences of marriage, migration, and marital and domestic violence in a community that has been perceived as a model minority in the United States. Notions of cultural identity, family values and gender, as well as the forms of marriage and violence, are briefly examined. Emphasis is placed on the pivotal role played by Sakhi for South Asian Women in transforming domestic violence from an individual, private matter into a public issue.

Suggested Citation

  • Margaret Abraham, 2005. "Domestic Violence and the Indian Diaspora in the United States," Indian Journal of Gender Studies, Centre for Women's Development Studies, vol. 12(2-3), pages 427-451, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:indgen:v:12:y:2005:i:2-3:p:427-451
    DOI: 10.1177/097152150501200212
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/097152150501200212
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1177/097152150501200212?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Raj, A. & Silverman, J.G., 2003. "Immigrant South Asian women at greater risk for injury from intimate partner violence," American Journal of Public Health, American Public Health Association, vol. 93(3), pages 435-437.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Divya Ravindranath, 2017. "Visa regulations and labour market restrictions: implications for Indian immigrant women in the United States," The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Springer;The Indian Society of Labour Economics (ISLE), vol. 60(2), pages 217-232, June.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Bellés Obrero, Cristina & Rice, Caoimhe T. & Castello, Judit Vall, 2023. "Hit Where It Hurts: Healthcare Access and Intimate Partner Violence," IZA Discussion Papers 15994, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    2. Nafiseh Ghafournia & Patricia Easteal, 2018. "Are Immigrant Women Visible in Australian Domestic Violence Reports that Potentially Influence Policy?," Laws, MDPI, vol. 7(4), pages 1-16, September.
    3. Puri, Sunita & Adams, Vincanne & Ivey, Susan & Nachtigall, Robert D., 2011. ""There is such a thing as too many daughters, but not too many sons": A qualitative study of son preference and fetal sex selection among Indian immigrants in the United States," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 72(7), pages 1169-1176, April.
    4. Ahmad, Farah & Driver, Natasha & McNally, Mary Jane & Stewart, Donna E., 2009. ""Why doesn't she seek help for partner abuse?" An exploratory study with South Asian immigrant women," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 69(4), pages 613-622, August.
    5. Mary Carolan & Cheryl Steele & Heather Margetts, 2010. "Attitudes towards gestational diabetes among a multiethnic cohort in Australia," Journal of Clinical Nursing, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 19(17‐18), pages 2446-2453, September.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:sae:indgen:v:12:y:2005:i:2-3:p:427-451. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: SAGE Publications (email available below). General contact details of provider: .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.