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100			_aPillai, Suma
245			_aDomestic violence in New Zealand: an Asian immigrant perspective
260			_c2001
300			_ap.965-74
362			_a17 Mar
520			_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
650			_aAsians - New Zealand
650			_aImmigrants - Asia
650			_aDomestic violence - New Zealand
650			_aDomestic violence
773			_aEconomic and Political Weekly
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999			_c48144 _d48144