TY  - SER
AU  - Sullivan, Claire
AU  - Block, Karen
AU  - Hourani, Jeanine
AU  - Vaughan, Cathy
TI  - Equivocal justice: migrant and refugee survivors of family violence and interactions with the Australian legal system
PY  - 2025///
PB  - Sage, 
KW  - DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
KW  - FAMILY VIOLENCE
KW  - INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
KW  - JUSTICE
KW  - MANENE
KW  - MIGRANTS
KW  - PŪNAHA TURE TAIHARA
KW  - REFUGEESVIC
KW  - STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE
KW  - SUPPORT SERVICES
KW  - TOKO I TE ORA
KW  - TURE O TE KĀWANATANGA
KW  - VICTIM/SURVIVORS' VOICES
KW  - INTERNATIONAL
KW  - AUSTRALIA
N1  - Violence Against Women, 2025, First published online, 21 April 2025
N2  - Little is known about how migrant and refugee women who experience family violence interact with the Australian justice system. Drawing on interviews with survivors and service providers and a focus group discussion (n = 73), this paper explores how survivors view and engage with Australian legal interventions. We found the legal system to be an unreliable site for migrant and refugee women; it was capable of both perpetuating violence through institutional discrimination and offering much-needed protection, at times simultaneously. Interactions were influenced by and influenced survivors’ legal consciousness and informed their relationship with the resettlement state. The findings underscore the importance of legal responses premised upon listening to survivors’ claims, respecting their agency, and accounting for the intersectional realities of their lives. (Authors' abstract). Record #9215
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1177/10778012251334767
ER  -