All NIWAP Social Science Research

Immigration Remedies and Effects

• VAWA Self-Petitioning Research Data Excerpts
• Barriers and Successes in U Visas for Immigrant Victims: The Experiences of Legal Assistance for Victims Grantees
• Early Access to Work Authorization For VAWA Self-Petitioners and U Visa Applicants
• Survey Report on Access to Public and Assisted Housing for VAWA Self-petitioners, their Children, and Trafficking Victims
• U-Visa Victims and Lawful Permanent Residency Survey of Advocates and Attorneys
• National Survey on Types Of Criminal Activities Experienced By U-Visa Recipients
• Moving Battered Spouse Waiver Adjudications to the VAWA Unit: A Call for Consistency and Safety National Survey Findings Highlights
• Report to the Legal Services Corporation: Immigrant Victims of Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, and Human Trafficking and Access to Legal Services
• Battered Immigrants and U.S. Citizen Spouses
• U-Visa Legal Advocacy: Overview of Effective Policies and Practices
• The Roles of Culture, Context, and Legal Immigrant Status on Intimate Partner Violence
• Battered Immigrant Women in the United States and Protection Orders: An Exploratory Research
• Violence Against Immigrant Women and Systemic Responses: An Exploratory Study
• Characteristics of help-seeking behaviors, resources and service needs of battered immigrant Latinas: Legal and policy implications.
• Use and Outcomes of Protection Orders by Battered Immigrant Women: Revised Final Technical Report
• Experiences of Immigrant Women Who Self-Petition Under the Violence Against Women Act

Access to Public Benefits

• Access to Emergency Shelters and Transitional Housing for Battered Immigrants and Immigrant Victims of Crime

Law Enforcement

• Promoting Access to Justice for Immigrant and Limited English Proficient Crime Victims in an Age of Increased Immigration Enforcement: Initial Report from a 2017 National Survey
• Overcoming Fear and Building Trust with Immigrant Communities and Crime Victims
• The Importance of the U-visa as a Crime-Fighting Tool for Law Enforcement Officials
• Calls to police and police response: A case study of Latina immigrant women in the USA

Courts

• Understanding the Significance of a Minor’s Trauma History in Family Court Rulings
• Serving Limited English Proficient (LEP) Battered Women: A National Survey of the Courts’ Capacity to Provide Protection Orders

Advocates

• The Central Role of Victim Advocacy for Victim Safety While Victims’ Immigration Cases Are Pending (July 29, 2014)

Student Visas

• National Findings on University and College Responses to Foreign-born Student Victims
• When Foreign Students or Their Family Members are Sexually Assaulted: Immigration Implications of the Student and Exchange Visitor System