I Am Not [Just] a Rabbit Who Has a Bunch of Children!”

Agency in the Midst of Suffering at the Intersections of Global Inequalities, Gendered Violence, and Migration

Bibliographic Data

ID12437490
AuthorsNia Parson (Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX,, corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume16
Issue8
Pages881-901
Publication date2010-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueViolence Against Women (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1077-8012 • E-ISSN: 1552-8448
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1077801210376224
PMID20679185
OpenAlexW2118776124
LanguageEN
Citations received14
References cited30

This article is based on an analysis of the life history narrative of Antonia, a Peruvian immigrant in Chile, in the context of ethnographic research on Chilean women’s experiences of domestic violence (DV) and the post-dictatorship state’s responses to DV. Structural and socio-cultural constraints and forms of violence, including global and local economic inequalities, migration, racism, and intimate, gender-based abuses in both home and receiving countries interact in Antonia’s experience to produce suffering and influence a form of gendered agency. This analysis points to the need for research and policies specifically designed to attend to the intersecting vulnerabilities migrant women who suffer DV often face, as well as their agentive acts

Agency (philosophy · Context (archaeology · Criminology · Dictatorship · Domestic violence · Ethnography · Geography · Immigration · Inequality · Narrative · Poison control · Political science · Politics · Racism · Social science · Sociology · Suicide prevention · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Intimate Partner and Family Violence · Law · Medicine · Migration, Health and Trauma

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