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| Abstract title: | Domestic violence, deportation, and womens resistance: notes on managing inter-sectionality |
| Author: |
Purna Sen |
| Issue: | Volume 9, Numbers 1+2 (double issue) 1999 |
This Practical note describes the work of the Southall Black Sisters, a group, based in London, England, which provides a variety of assistance to, mainly Asian, women who have been victims of domestic violence and abuse. The author discusses how the UK legal system fails to help some of these women, as well as how patriarchal Asian social structures enable this abuse to go unchecked and unreported. The SBS consciously try to challenge on many fronts at once, working against gender and racial oppression (including religious fundamentalism and communalism) and&[operating] at the level of the family, the community, and the state.
This article also appears in the Development in Practice Readers Development with Women, and Development and Management.
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