Use and Outcome of Civil Protection Orders by Battered Immigrant Women in the U.S. [pdf]
This presentation covers battered immigrant women’s knowledge about protection orders, their opinions about the effects of protection orders on the intimate partner violence, the reasons leading them to file for protection orders, and the remedies they sought to have in protection orders. The presentation, also, looks at the structural processes that contribute to immigrant women obtaining civil protection orders. Finally, the presentation explores battered immigrant