Violence against immigrant and refugee women

With White Ribbon Day receiving good media coverage this week, one timely paper recently published is from Australia's National Research Organisation for Women's Safety (ANROWS) - Promoting community-led responses to violence against immigrant and refugee women in metropolitan and regional Australia. 

This paper presents the state of national and international knowledge about family violence against immigrant and refugee women. Some of the findings include the fact that although there are similar forms of family violence for these women as other women, there are differences where women depend on perpetrators for economic security and residency rights.  There is very little evidence that mandatory arrest and pro-prosecution approaches are helpful for these women, and they may even deter them from seeking help.