This article provides an analysis of the legal protection for violence against migrant women in an irregular administrative situation, considering the Victims' Protection Act and its prohibition of secondary victimization. With this proposal, the conceptual and legal frameworks have been reviewed considering the theoretical contributions about secondary victimization, regarding the coincidence of several positions of discrimination because of gender and a different national origin. The suggested analysis highlights the conflicts, which derives from the prevalence of the alien condition and the irregular administrative position rather than that of being victim of violence. In this article, other ways for the access to the resources and the social services established within the Law 1/2004, more respectful with the autonomy and the agency of the migrant women, are proposed.

Violence against women Immigration Secondary victimization Gender

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