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Violence Against Latina Immigrants Citizenship, Inequality, and Community [Hardcover]

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  • Category: Books (Social Science)
  • Author:  Villalon, Roberta
  • Author:  Villalon, Roberta
  • ISBN-10:  0814788238
  • ISBN-10:  0814788238
  • ISBN-13:  9780814788233
  • ISBN-13:  9780814788233
  • Publisher:  NYU Press
  • Publisher:  NYU Press
  • Pages:  226
  • Pages:  226
  • Binding:  Hardcover
  • Binding:  Hardcover
  • Pub Date:  01-May-2010
  • Pub Date:  01-May-2010
  • SKU:  0814788238-11-MPOD
  • SKU:  0814788238-11-MPOD
  • Item ID: 100937673
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Caught between violent partners and the bureaucratic complications of the US Immigration system, many immigrant women are particularly vulnerable to abuse. For two years, Roberta Villalón volunteered at a nonprofit group that offers free legal services to mostly undocumented immigrants who had been victims of abuse. Her innovative study of Latina survivors of domestic violence explores the complexities at the intersection of immigration, citizenship, and violence, and shows how inequality is perpetuated even through the well-intentioned delivery of vital services. Through archival research, participant observation, and personal interviews,Violence Against Latina Immigrantsprovides insight into the many obstacles faced by battered immigrant women of color, bringing their stories and voices to the fore. Ultimately, Villalón proposes an active policy advocacy agenda and suggests possible changes to gender violence-based immigration laws, revealing the complexities of the lives of Latina immigrants as they confront issues of citizenship, gender violence, and social inequalities.

Villalón is able to provide a nuanced analysis of immigration law in such a manner that ordinary individuals...can easily understand the contradictions that are codified in the laws...it is the preseverance of the women chornicled in the book...that remains with the reader long after finishing the last page.
-Kristin Carbone-Lopez,Race and Justice
Acknowledgments
 1 Introduction: Theoretical and Methodological Approach 
 2 Violence against Latina Immigrants and Immigration Law 
 3 Formal Barriers to Citizenship 
 4 Informal Barriers to Citizenship 
 5 Resisting Inequality
 6 Conclusion