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Disposable women : abuse, violence and abandonment in transnational marriages. Issues for policy and practice in the UK and India Anitha Sundari, Anupama Roy and Harshita Yalamarty with Nalini Trivedi and Anjali Chahal

By: Sundari, Anitha.
Contributor(s): Roy, Anupama | Yalamarty, Harshita.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Lincoln, England : University of Lincoln, 2016Description: electronic document (40 pages) ; PDF file.Subject(s): ASIAN PEOPLES | ASIAN WOMEN | DOMESTIC VIOLENCE | INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE | MARRIAGE | MIGRANTS | SUPPORT SERVICES | INTERNATIONAL | INDIA | UNITED KINGDOMOnline resources: Download report, PDF Summary: Abandonment of wives by non-resident Indian men in transnational marriages has become a widespread phenomenon. Abandonment can take three forms: (a) a woman, migrating after marriage to her Indian-origin husband’s country of residence, may be ousted or (less commonly) flee after a period of abuse; (b) a woman who has migrated with her husband after marriage may be deceived into returning to India for a vacation and abandoned there, while her husband returns and revokes her visa; (c) a woman may be left behind in India after marriage while her husband goes back with assurances that he will sponsor her visa, but the woman is left with her in-laws and is eventually ousted from their home or leaves because of domestic violence. This study was conducted between December 2013 and May 2015 with abandoned wives in the second and third categories in Delhi, Punjab and Gujarat, states in India which have a long history of out-migration to the UK and other countries in the West. This study explores the nature and patterns of abuse and abandonment in transnational marriages, and documents women’s experience of the legal and judicial apparatus in the UK and India in their quest for justice. It is hoped that the findings will stimulate policy debates within and between the two countries on abandonment as a form of gender-specific violence and on measures to address the problem. (From the Executive summary). Record #8015
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Abandonment of wives by non-resident Indian men in transnational marriages has become a widespread phenomenon. Abandonment can take three forms: (a) a woman, migrating after marriage to her Indian-origin husband’s country of residence, may be ousted or (less commonly)
flee after a period of abuse; (b) a woman who has migrated with her husband after marriage may be deceived into returning to India for a vacation and abandoned there, while her husband returns and revokes her visa; (c) a woman may be left behind in India after marriage while her husband goes back with assurances that he will sponsor her visa, but the woman is left with her in-laws and is eventually ousted from their home or leaves because of domestic violence. This study was conducted between December 2013 and May 2015 with abandoned wives in the second and third categories in Delhi, Punjab and Gujarat, states in India which have a long
history of out-migration to the UK and other countries in the West. This study explores the nature and patterns of abuse and abandonment in transnational marriages, and documents
women’s experience of the legal and judicial apparatus in the UK and India in their quest for justice. It is hoped that the findings will stimulate policy debates within and between the two countries on abandonment as a form of gender-specific violence and on measures to address the problem. (From the Executive summary). Record #8015

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