Breaking Barriers is a comprehensive manual that provides information that will be useful to advocates, attorneys, justice, and social services professionals working with and assisting immigrant survivors of domestic and family violence. This Manual provides a detailed overview explanation of immigrant survivors’ legal rights under immigration, family, public benefits, and criminal laws and their rights to access a broad range of victim services without regard to immigration status of the immigrant crime victim or their children. Breaking Barriers provides social science research findings, information about laws, policies and best practices, legislative history, tools and checklists that will help professionals working with immigrant survivors navigate intersecting legal and social services options that are legally available to assist all immigrant victims including those who are undocumented.
Breaking Barriers: A Complete Guide to Legal Rights and Resources for Battered Immigrants
Chapter 01.1: Dynamics of Domestic Violence Experienced by Immigrant Victims
Chapter 01.2: Collaboration, Confidentiality, and Expanding Advocacy
Chapter 02: Interviewing and Safety Planning for Immigrant Victims of Domestic Violence
Chapter 03.2: VAWA Confidentiality and Breaches of Confidentiality
Chapter 03.3: Preparing the VAWA Self-Petition and Applying for Residence
Chapter 03.4: VAWA Cancellation of Removal
Chapter 03.5: Additional Remedies Under VAWA: Battered Spouse Waiver
Chapter 03.6: U-Visas: Victims of Criminal Activity
Chapter 03.7: Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Survivors and Gender-Based Asylum
Chapter 04.1: Access to Programs and Services that Can Help Battered Immigrants
Chapter 04.2: Public Benefits Access for Battered Immigrant Women and Children
Chapter 05.1: Battered Immigrants and Civil Protection Orders
Chapter 05.2: Ensuring Access to Protection Orders for Immigrant Victims of Family Violence
Chapter 05.3: Jurisdictionally Sound Civil Protection Orders
Chapter 06.1: Countering Abuser’s Attempts to Raise Victim’s Immigration Status in Custody Cases
Chapter 06.5: Immigration Status and Family Court Jurisdiction
Chapter 07: Battered Immigrants and the Criminal Justice System