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British Journal of Social Work, doi:10.1093/bjsw/bcn160
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© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The British Association of Social Workers. All rights reserved

No Recourse, No Support: State Policy and Practice towards South Asian Women Facing Domestic Violence in the UK1

Sundari Anitha

Dr Sundari Anitha is Research Fellow at the School of Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds. Her research interests lie in two areas: (i) issues of race/ethnicity, gender and working lives among the South Asian Diaspora in the UK; and (ii) social policy, health and criminal justice responses to violence against black and minority ethnic women in the UK. Over the last ten years, she has been active in campaigning and policy making on violence against women including forced marriage

Correspondence to Sundari Anitha, School of Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK. E-mail: s.anitha{at}leeds.ac.uk


  Abstract

This paper examines the extent to which government policy and practice meet the needs of women with insecure immigration status who are experiencing domestic violence. The research on which this paper is based was conducted between January and June 2007 and included qualitative interviews with thirty South Asian women who were barred from receiving public funds (known as ‘no recourse to public funds’ (NRPF)) due to their status as recent marriage migrants, who were living in the North West and Yorkshire regions of England. This paper examines the complex legislation that governs the entitlement of women with NRPF who are facing domestic violence, women's experiences of social service practice, its impact on the safety and welfare of the women and their children, and suggests a way forward.

Keywords: Domestic violence, housing rights, no recourse to public funds, welfare rights


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