Research on domestic violence documents the particular vulnerability of immigrant women due to reasons including social isolation, language barriers, lack of awareness about services, and racism on the part of services. Based on qualitative interviews with 30 South Asian women with insecure immigration status residing in Yorkshire and Northwest England, this article explores how inequalities created by culture, gender, class, and race intersect with state immigration and welfare policies in the United Kingdom, thereby exacerbating structures of patriarchy within minority communities. It is within these contexts that South Asian women with insecure immigration status experience intensified forms and specific patterns of abuse. © SAGE Publications 2011.

intersectionalities and domestic violence South Asian Women immigrant women no recourse to public funds

cultural anthropology social psychology Asian minority group human Women's Rights middle aged Asia Asian continental ancestry group policy ethnology family size Spouse Abuse Family Characteristics human rights interview Young Adult Humans Adolescent Minority Groups Interviews as Topic male Emigrants and Immigrants England Socioeconomic Factors female socioeconomics victim Article partner violence adult migration Prejudice United Kingdom social class Battered Women public policy battered woman Culture Crime Victims