01488pab a2200169 454500008004000000100001700040245006900057260000900126300001300135362001100148520102000159650002501179650002201204650003601226650002201262773003401284180718b2001   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aPillai, Suma  aDomestic violence in New Zealand: an Asian immigrant perspective  c2001  ap.965-74  a17 Mar  aThis article explores the impact of domestic violence on Asian immigrant and refugee women in New Zealand.  Domestic violence needs to be recognised as abusive and as a crime.  Asian men use violence as a way of securing and maintaining the relations of male dominance and female subordination, which is central to the patriarchal social order.  It is essential that various theoretical works on domestic violence in New Zealand recognise and understand the variation in cultural and familial constraints experienced by different groups of ethnic-minority Asian immigrant and refugee women.  Despite the fact that a wide range of interventionist services exist and there is a very progressive legislation against domestic violence in New Zealand due to various cultural and structural constraints, Asian women find it difficult to access them.  This article examines these issues and in conclusion suggests that the Asian community take responsibility to address this issue as well as the perpetrators. - Reproduced  aAsians - New Zealand  aImmigrants - Asia  aDomestic violence - New Zealand  aDomestic violence  aEconomic and Political Weekly