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Honor-based violence and coercive control among Asian youth in Auckland, New Zealand

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ABSTRACT

Honor-based violence (HBV) is a type of intimate partner and family violence that rests on patriarchal norms which fall under the parameters of coercive control. However, research has not examined the ways that HBV operates as a form of coercive control. Utilizing small group interviews conducted with 27 adolescent girls and young women, predominantly of Asian backgrounds from Auckland, New Zealand, this study will illustrate how HBV functions as a form of culturally driven coercive control, but one that cuts across multiple ecological or environmental levels, ranging from interpersonal relationships to state systems. Stark’s work (2007) on coercive control has been significant for providing a conceptual framework that captures how patriarchal norms perpetuate intimate partner violence (IPV). Policy suggestions include educational programming with migrant Asian youth that explore the positive and negative dimensions of culture, and encourage youth to perpetuate those aspects of their cultures which they view as positive while critiquing cultural practices tied to HBV. For young adult marriage migrants caught in violent relationships, policy suggestions include bolstering of state resources to help legal aid practitioners, social workers and law enforcement recognize the cumulative power of coercive control in families that practice HBV and help young women exit the violent circumstances.

ABSTRACT IN HINDI

सम्मान-आधारित हिंसा एक प्रकार का अंतरंग साथी और पारिवारिक हिंसा है जो पितृसत्तात्मक मानदंडों पर टिकी हुई है जो कि ज़बरदस्त नियंत्रण के मापदंडों के तहत आती हैं। हालांकि, अनुसंधान ने उन तरीकों की जांच नहीं की है जिनमें HBV एक जबरदस्त नियंत्रण के रूप में संचालित होता है। २७ नवयुवक लड़कियों और युवा महिलाओं के साथ जो ज्यादातर एशीआयी पृष्ठभूमि के है और मुख्य रूप से औकलैन्ड न्यूज़ीलैन्ड के है, उनके साथ एक छोटे समूह में इंटरव्यू आयोजित किये यह बात जानें की कोशिश करती हैं कि HBV कैसे सांस्कृतिक रूप से संचालित ज़बरदस्त नियंत्रण के रूप में कार्य करता है, लेकिन एक कई पारिस्थितिक या पर्यावरणीय स्तरों में कटौती करता है, पारस्परिक संबंधों से लेकर राज्य प्रणालियों तक। स्टार्क ने २००७ में यह लिखा है कि जबरदस्त नियंत्रण एक वैचारिक ढांचा प्रदान करने के लिए महत्वपूर्ण रहा है जो यह दर्शाता है कि पितृसत्तात्मक मानदंडों से अंतरंग साथी हिंसा जारी रहना होता है। नीति के सुझावों में प्रवासी एशीआयी युवाओं के साथ शैक्षिक प्रोग्रामिंग शामिल है जो संस्कृति के अच्छे और बुरे आयामों का पता लगाते हैं, और उन्हें अपनी संस्कृतियों के उन पहलुओं को बनाए रखने के लिए प्रोत्साहित करते हैं जिन्हें वे HBV से जुड़ी सांस्कृतिक प्रथाओं को समेटते हुए निश्चित मानते हैं। हिंसक रिश्तों में पकड़े गए युवा वयस्क विवाह प्रवासियों के लिए, नीतिगत सुझावों में राज्य के संसाधनों को शामिल करना है ताकि कानूनी सहायता सामाजिक कार्यकर्ताओं और कानून प्रवर्तन अधिकारी उन परिवारों में ज़बरदस्त नियंत्रण की संचयी शक्ति को पहचाने जो HBV का अभ्यास करते हैं और हिंसक परिस्थितियों से बाहर निकलने में युवा महिलाओं की मदद करते हैं।

Notes on contributors

David MAYEDA is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Auckland in the Disciplinary Area of Sociology & Criminology. Some of his recent publications include “Māori and Pacific student experiences with every-day colonialism and racism,” and “Constructions of honor-based violence: gender, context and Orientalism.” While working at the University of Auckland, David has been involved in numerous projects that support academic success among indigenous and other ethnic minority students. Before moving to Auckland, David engaged in extensive community work in Hawai’i, assisting with the developing of programs that prevented various dimensions of youth violence. Email: [email protected]

Sunmin Rachel CHO has primarily been involved in working towards improved social conditions for women and children of migrant backgrounds. Her involvement includes academic research as well as working in the community sector around housing, prisons and domestic violence. Currently, Rachel works in local government, supporting initiatives and decisions which are empowering for under-served communities. Email: [email protected]

Raagini VIJAYKUMAR is a New Zealand qualified Barrister and Solicitor. She graduated from the University of Auckland where she was involved in projects that aimed to raise awareness on migrant experiences of intimate partner violence and Maori and Pacific student experiences with everyday racism. She has since worked at the New Zealand Embassy and Permanent Mission to the United Nations in Vienna, Austria, and is now in London working for the UK Cabinet Office on a public inquiry. Email: [email protected]

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