Accessing Support for Domestic and Family Violence in the Context of Migrant Precarity: Women's Experiences in Victoria, Australia
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Abstract
Abstract: Feminist scholarship that brings issues regarding legal status to the forefront contributes to our understanding of the diverse and specific experiences of migration in relation to domestic and family violence. Scholars taking an intersectional approach have examined how migrant women with insecure status confront a series of barriers in their daily lives, impacting their ability to seek help and exacerbating their experiences of violence and abuse in receiving contexts, such as Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States. While existing studies have generated important findings, limited research has been conducted with victim-survivors to understand their help-seeking pathways. Drawing on interviews with 18 victim-survivors and 23 professional stakeholders, this paper seeks to contribute to existing scholarship by examining how women with insecure migration status living in Victoria, Australia, accessed support for domestic and family violence in the context of migrant precarity. The paper highlights that, despite their limited entitlements, victim-survivors sought out formal assistance and in doing so, worked with different stakeholders to negotiate a pathway towards support and safety. The study also reveals that women had different outcomes and while some were able to begin to rebuild their lives, others were faced with further legal, social and economic precarity and continued to live with the threat of removal from the country. These findings suggest that understanding women's intersectional location in society is required in the design of effective policy responses that seek to address domestic and family violence at the national level. Résumé: Les études féministes qui mettent au premier plan les questions relatives au statut juridique contribuent à notre compréhension des expériences diverses et spécifiques de la migration en relation avec la violence domestique et familiale. Les chercheurs qui adoptent une approche intersectionnelle ont examiné comment les femmes migrantes ayant un statut précaire sont confrontées à une série d'obstacles dans leur vie quotidienne, ce qui a un impact sur leur capacité à demander de l'aide et exacerbe leurs expériences de violence et d'abus dans les contextes d'accueil, tels que l'Australie, le Canada, la Nouvelle-Zélande, le Royaume-Uni et les États-Unis. Bien que les études existantes aient produit des résultats importants, peu de recherches ont été menées auprès des victimes-survivantes pour comprendre leurs parcours de recherche d'aide. S'appuyant sur des entretiens avec 18 victimes-survivantes et 23 intervenants professionnels, cet article cherche à contribuer à la recherche existante en examinant comment les femmes au statut migratoire précaire vivant dans l'État de Victoria, en Australie, ont accédé à l'aide pour la violence domestique et familiale dans le contexte de la précarité migratoire. L'article souligne que, malgré leurs droits limités, les victimes-survivantes ont cherché à obtenir une assistance formelle et, ce faisant, ont travaillé avec différentes parties prenantes pour négocier une voie vers l'aide et la sécurité. L'étude révèle également que les femmes ont eu des résultats différents et que si certaines ont pu commencer à reconstruire leur vie, d'autres ont été confrontées à une plus grande précarité juridique, sociale et économique et ont continué à vivre avec la menace d'être expulsées du pays. Ces résultats suggèrent qu'il est nécessaire de comprendre la position intersectionnelle des femmes dans la société pour concevoir des réponses politiques efficaces visant à lutter contre la violence domestique et familiale au niveau national.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".