Citation

Morash M, Bui H, Zhang Y, Holtfreter K. Violence Against Women 2007; 13(7): 653-675.

Affiliation

School of Crmininal Justice and Criminology, Michigan State University, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1077801207302044

PMID

17600304

Abstract

This study identifies risk factors for Vietnamese American women's abuse. Intensive interviews with 129 Vietnamese women immigrants in a northeastern metropolitan area provided data to examine risk factors for sexual, physical, and verbal abuse. Patriarchal gender arrangements in the family, arguments about fulfilling gender and family roles, and partner's threat that divorce would compromise the participant's immigration status put women at risk for each type of abuse. "Picture brides" were at heightened risk for sexual abuse. For women with limited resources, education and interventions within the ethnic immigrant community are critical to addressing wife abuse.

Language: en