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Khatidja Chantler - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Forced Marriage coercive control and conducive contexts the experiences of women in scotland
Violence Against Women, 2020Co-Authors: Khatidja Chantler, Melanie MccarryAbstract:This article is based on the first Scottish study of survivor perspectives of Forced Marriage. In-depth interviews were conducted with eight survivors. Our thematic analysis identified five key the...
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Understanding Forced Marriage in Scotland
2017Co-Authors: Khatidja Chantler, Victoria Louise Baker, Mhairi Mackenzie, Melanie Mccarry, Nughmana MirzaAbstract:This research was carried out to better understand Forced Marriage in Scotland, including professionals' understandings of Forced Marriage and potential legal responses, and barriers to working in this field.
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recognition of and intervention in Forced Marriage as a form of violence and abuse
Trauma Violence & Abuse, 2012Co-Authors: Khatidja ChantlerAbstract:This paper highlights the importance of recognising Forced Marriage as a form of violence and draws attention to the interventions that are developing in Europe as a response to Forced Marriage. The paper highlights the difficulties of conflating all child Marriages as Forced Marriage and discusses the different contexts of childhood in different parts of the globe. The UK is reputed to have the widest range of policy interventions and practice guidance to tackle Forced Marriage and is therefore used as a case study in this paper, but reference is also made to other countries thus ensuring a wider relevance. The paper’s analysis of UK based research studies on Forced Marriage identifies three key themes: i) lack of adequate reporting of incidents of Forced Marriage; ii) lack of professional knowledge of Forced Marriage and their fear of intervention; iii) the tension between conceptualizing Forced Marriage as purely cultural or as a form of gender based violence. It also highlights the largely legislative...
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Protecting Victims of Forced Marriage: Is Age a Protective Factor?
Feminist Legal Studies, 2009Co-Authors: Geetanjali Gangoli, Khatidja ChantlerAbstract:This paper explores the UK’s legal interventions in the arena of Forced Marriage. Three key initiatives have been considered in the last 5 years: creating a specific crime of Forced Marriage; civil rather than criminal protection for victims; and an increase in the age of entry for non-EU spouses, with a corresponding increase in age for sponsoring such spouses. Our key focus is on the last of these interventions and we draw upon a research study conducted in the UK in 2006/2007 exploring the risks and benefits associated with increasing the age of sponsorship and entry. The UK government’s argument is that the increased maturity which comes from being older acts as a protective factor, thus making it easier to resist Forced Marriage. This view of maturity gains its saliency from developmental psychology. Here, we critically analyse the construct of age and the link between age and ability to resist Forced Marriage. We illustrate through the accounts of victims of Forced Marriage and of stakeholders the difficulties of adopting age as a central organising feature of protection for potential victims of Forced Marriage.
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Forced Marriage in the uk religious cultural economic or state violence
Critical Social Policy, 2009Co-Authors: Khatidja Chantler, Geetanjali Gangoli, Marianne HesterAbstract:Our paper is based on a qualitative empirical study of Forced Marriage in the UK and offers a multidimensional view which challenges four key points that are currently central in the Forced marriag...
Aisha K Gill - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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a moral panic the problematization of Forced Marriage in british newspapers
Violence Against Women, 2015Co-Authors: Sundari Anitha, Aisha K GillAbstract:This article examines the British media’s construction of Forced Marriage (FM) as an urgent social problem in a context where other forms of violence against women are not similarly problematized. A detailed analysis of four British newspapers over a 10-year period demonstrates that media reporting of FM constitutes a moral panic in that it is constructed as a cultural problem that threatens Britain’s social order rather than as a specific form of violence against women. Thus, the current problematization of FM restricts discursive spaces for policy debates and hinders attempts to respond to this problem as part of broader efforts to tackle violence against women.
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criminalization or multiculturalism without culture comparing british and french approaches to tackling Forced Marriage
Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 2014Co-Authors: Aisha K Gill, Anicee Van EngelandAbstract:In seeking to tackle Forced Marriage, Britain and France have begun to shift away from strategies that prioritize the protection of the state's interests and values over the rights of women and individuals: politics have, to a degree, given way to human rights concerns, but neither have been reconciled with the challenges presented by multiculturalism. This paper compares not only the legislation adopted by the two countries, but the politics concerning religious and cultural differences that have driven their approaches. Britain's Forced Marriage (Civil Protection) Act 2007, a law designed specifically to aid victims, represents a step in the right direction in terms of protection and prevention. However, recent plans to criminalize Forced Marriage may undo much of this good work, driving the practice underground. Meanwhile, France has opted for criminalizing some socio-cultural practices (including the niqab and burqa) but not others (including Forced Marriage), seeking instead to strengthen existing ci...
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Reconceptualising consent and coercion within an intersectional understanding of Forced Marriage
2011Co-Authors: Sundari Anitha, Aisha K GillAbstract:Reconceptualising consent and coercion within an intersectional understanding of Forced Marriage
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the social construction of Forced Marriage and its victim in media coverage and crime policy discourses
2011Co-Authors: Sundari Anitha, Aisha K GillAbstract:The social construction of Forced Marriage and its 'victim' in media coverage and crime policy discourses
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Forced Marriage introducing a social justice and human rights perspective
2011Co-Authors: Aisha K Gill, Sundari AnithaAbstract:* Foreword - Professor Yakin Erturk, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey * Introduction: Framing Forced Marriage as a form of violence against women - Aisha K. Gill and Sundari Anitha * Section 1: Definitions, contexts and theoretical concepts * 1. Understanding Forced Marriage: Definitions and realities - Geetanjali Gangoli, Khatidja Chantler, Marianne Hester and Ann Singleton * 2. Reconceptualising consent and coercion within an intersectional understanding of Forced Marriage - Sundari Anitha and Aisha K. Gill * 3. Forced Marriage: The European Convention on Human Rights and the Human Rights Act 1998 - Shazia Choudhry * 4. Border control to prevent Forced Marriages: Choosing between protecting women and protecting the nation - Anja Bredal * 5. The social construction of Forced Marriage and its 'victim' in media coverage and crime policy discourses - Sundari Anitha and Aisha K. Gill * Section 2: Policy and Practice * 6. Forced Marriage legislation in the UK: A critique - Aisha K. Gill and Sundari Anitha * 7. The law, the courts and their effectiveness - Teertha Gupta and Khatun Sapnara * 8. The practice of law-making and the problem of Forced Marriage: What is the role of the Muslim Arbitration Tribunal? - Samia Bano * 9. Constructing Victims, Construing Credibility: Forced Marriage, Pakistani women and the UK asylum process - Marzia Balzani * 10. "Wayward Girls" and "Well-Wisher Parents": Habeas Corpus, Women's Rights to Personal Liberty, Consent to Marriage and the Bangladeshi Courts - Sara Hossain
Els Leye - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Marriage and migration moroccan women s views on partner choice arranged and Forced Marriage in belgium
Journal of International Migration and Integration, 2019Co-Authors: Alexia Sabbe, Karima E.l. Boujaddayni, Marleen Temmerman, Els LeyeAbstract:With family reunification as one of the key routes to legally gain entry to the European Union, governments are introducing more stringent legislation to counter abuses such as Forced Marriages and Marriages of convenience. This study explores Moroccan women’s views on partner choice, arranged and Forced Marriages to ascertain the impact of the migratory context. Moreover, it examined whether the diasporic experience affects the occurrence of Forced Marriage. Using a participatory approach, focus-group discussions and in-depth interviews were held with women from the Moroccan community in both urban and provincial settings in Flanders, Belgium. Our findings indicate a preference for a partner in Belgium. Religion as opposed to ethnicity emerges as the most important attribute in a partner. Furthermore, religion is also a progressive voice in opinions on Forced Marriage and the virginity norm. Although Forced Marriages are no longer a pressing issue among the youth of the Moroccan Belgian community, the immigration legislation and policies that aim to enhance integration and tackle Forced Marriage and Marriages of convenience appear to effectively deter women from choosing a partner from Morocco. Overall, the diasporic experience and migration context do not give rise to an increase of Forced Marriage among the Moroccan community; yet, arranged Marriage is prevalent, even though it is on the decline.
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Marriage and Migration: Moroccan Women’s Views on Partner Choice, Arranged and Forced Marriage in Belgium
Journal of International Migration and Integration, 2019Co-Authors: Alexia Sabbe, Karima E.l. Boujaddayni, Marleen Temmerman, Els LeyeAbstract:With family reunification as one of the key routes to legally gain entry to the European Union, governments are introducing more stringent legislation to counter abuses such as Forced Marriages and Marriages of convenience. This study explores Moroccan women’s views on partner choice, arranged and Forced Marriages to ascertain the impact of the migratory context. Moreover, it examined whether the diasporic experience affects the occurrence of Forced Marriage. Using a participatory approach, focus-group discussions and in-depth interviews were held with women from the Moroccan community in both urban and provincial settings in Flanders, Belgium. Our findings indicate a preference for a partner in Belgium. Religion as opposed to ethnicity emerges as the most important attribute in a partner. Furthermore, religion is also a progressive voice in opinions on Forced Marriage and the virginity norm. Although Forced Marriages are no longer a pressing issue among the youth of the Moroccan Belgian community, the immigration legislation and policies that aim to enhance integration and tackle Forced Marriage and Marriages of convenience appear to effectively deter women from choosing a partner from Morocco. Overall, the diasporic experience and migration context do not give rise to an increase of Forced Marriage among the Moroccan community; yet, arranged Marriage is prevalent, even though it is on the decline.
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matrifor approaching Forced Marriage as a new form of trafficking in human beings in europe
2016Co-Authors: Noelia Igareda, Maria Barcons Campmajo, Maria Rosa Lotti, Els LeyeAbstract:The MATRIFOR project addresses Forced Marriage as a new form of human trafficking in Europe. The main objectives of this project are: 1) to study the characteristics of Forced Marriage in the participating countries in order to better understand the factors, the victims' profiles and other issues which might facilitate Forced Marriage. This would be used to identify cases of Forced Marriage; 2) to study the main obstacles and difficulties faced by victims when seeking legal redress in cases of Forced Marriage in the participating countries; 3) to propose specific legal mechanisms to address Forced Marriage within the context of European Directive 2011/36/EU on Preventing and Combating Trafficking in Human Beings and Protecting Its Victims, and replacing Council Framework Decision 2002/629/JHA; 4) to analyse the way in which the participating countries are transposing into their national legislation the obligations imposed under the above cited EU Directive; 5) to develop training and awareness-raising material specifically addressed to target groups and beneficiaries.The study lasted from 16 November 2012 to 15 November 2015 (36 months). Three countries were involved in the study: Belgium (project partner), Italy (project partner) and Spain (project coordinator). The institutions involved were: Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain), International Centre for Reproductive Health - Universiteit Gent (Ghent, Belgium) and Le Onde Onlus (Palermo, Italy). The study has been financed by the Prevention of and Fight against Crime programme (DG Home Affairs) of the European Commission.
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Forced Marriage an analysis of legislation and political measures in europe
Crime Law and Social Change, 2014Co-Authors: Alexia Sabbe, Marleen Temmerman, Eva Brems, Els LeyeAbstract:Forced Marriage is of current international concern in Europe. As many cases involve a transnational component linked to migration, it is increasingly receiving attention at the government level. The serious consequences for women, including sexual violence, and the physical and psychological health risks associated with it, seem to receive little consideration. Recent years have seen a rise in initiatives and measures taken by policy makers throughout Europe. As the focus is placed on criminalization and stringent immigration policies, ethnic minority population groups bear the greatest burden. It is argued that specific criminal laws make it more difficult for victims to come forward, while offering very little or no protection in return. The widespread 21-year age rule in immigration law has been denounced by scholars, institutes and magistrates alike for infringing on the fundamental human right to family life guaranteed by article 8 ECHR. The discourse on Forced Marriage appears to have reached a crossroads. European governments are faced with the challenge to create policies that protect and support victims, while simultaneously cracking down on perpetrators and safeguarding their borders from abuses in obtaining visas. There is a very pressing need to work more closely with those at risk, involving service provisions to directly support them, instead of a one-side top-down policy framework through which minority communities feel targeted and stigmatized.
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determinants of child and Forced Marriage in morocco stakeholder perspectives on health policies and human rights
BMC International Health and Human Rights, 2013Co-Authors: Alexia Sabbe, Marleen Temmerman, Halima Oulami, Wahiba Zekraoui, Halima Hikmat, Els LeyeAbstract:Background In Morocco, the social and legal framework surrounding sexual and reproductive health has transformed greatly in the past decade, especially with the introduction of the new Family Law or Moudawana. Yet, despite raising the minimum age of Marriage for girls and stipulating equal rights in the family, child and Forced Marriage is widespread. The objective of this research study was to explore perspectives of a broad range of professionals on factors that contribute to the occurrence of child and Forced Marriage in Morocco.
Sundari Anitha - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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a moral panic the problematization of Forced Marriage in british newspapers
Violence Against Women, 2015Co-Authors: Sundari Anitha, Aisha K GillAbstract:This article examines the British media’s construction of Forced Marriage (FM) as an urgent social problem in a context where other forms of violence against women are not similarly problematized. A detailed analysis of four British newspapers over a 10-year period demonstrates that media reporting of FM constitutes a moral panic in that it is constructed as a cultural problem that threatens Britain’s social order rather than as a specific form of violence against women. Thus, the current problematization of FM restricts discursive spaces for policy debates and hinders attempts to respond to this problem as part of broader efforts to tackle violence against women.
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Reconceptualising consent and coercion within an intersectional understanding of Forced Marriage
2011Co-Authors: Sundari Anitha, Aisha K GillAbstract:Reconceptualising consent and coercion within an intersectional understanding of Forced Marriage
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the social construction of Forced Marriage and its victim in media coverage and crime policy discourses
2011Co-Authors: Sundari Anitha, Aisha K GillAbstract:The social construction of Forced Marriage and its 'victim' in media coverage and crime policy discourses
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Forced Marriage introducing a social justice and human rights perspective
2011Co-Authors: Aisha K Gill, Sundari AnithaAbstract:* Foreword - Professor Yakin Erturk, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey * Introduction: Framing Forced Marriage as a form of violence against women - Aisha K. Gill and Sundari Anitha * Section 1: Definitions, contexts and theoretical concepts * 1. Understanding Forced Marriage: Definitions and realities - Geetanjali Gangoli, Khatidja Chantler, Marianne Hester and Ann Singleton * 2. Reconceptualising consent and coercion within an intersectional understanding of Forced Marriage - Sundari Anitha and Aisha K. Gill * 3. Forced Marriage: The European Convention on Human Rights and the Human Rights Act 1998 - Shazia Choudhry * 4. Border control to prevent Forced Marriages: Choosing between protecting women and protecting the nation - Anja Bredal * 5. The social construction of Forced Marriage and its 'victim' in media coverage and crime policy discourses - Sundari Anitha and Aisha K. Gill * Section 2: Policy and Practice * 6. Forced Marriage legislation in the UK: A critique - Aisha K. Gill and Sundari Anitha * 7. The law, the courts and their effectiveness - Teertha Gupta and Khatun Sapnara * 8. The practice of law-making and the problem of Forced Marriage: What is the role of the Muslim Arbitration Tribunal? - Samia Bano * 9. Constructing Victims, Construing Credibility: Forced Marriage, Pakistani women and the UK asylum process - Marzia Balzani * 10. "Wayward Girls" and "Well-Wisher Parents": Habeas Corpus, Women's Rights to Personal Liberty, Consent to Marriage and the Bangladeshi Courts - Sara Hossain
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the illusion of protection an analysis of Forced Marriage legislation and policy in the uk
Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 2009Co-Authors: Aisha K Gill, Sundari AnithaAbstract:This article examines the background, provisions and implications of the 2007 Forced Marriage Civil Bill, with specific regard to the UK government's present efforts to address the problem of Forced Marriage. It maps the tensions inherent in the creation of civil and criminal legislation to tackle Forced Marriage in the UK. The debates on the origins, design and workings of the 2007 Forced Marriage Civil Protection Act are considered, as are its implications for victims, prosecutors and criminal law in general. By exploring how the dominant discourses on Forced Marriage have shaped recent legislation, and the state's response to this problem (focused myopically on the legal system), this article evaluates how effective Forced Marriage legislation is for protecting vulnerable black and minority ethnic (BME) women in the UK, while also offering reflections on the current challenges confronting attempts to implement legal measures.
Rachael Clawson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the demographics of Forced Marriage of people with learning disabilities findings from a national database
The Journal of Adult Protection, 2020Co-Authors: Rachael Clawson, Anne Patterson, Rachel Fyson, Michelle MccarthyAbstract:Purpose: To compare the UK demographics of Forced Marriage of people with learning disabilities and people without learning disabilities in order to inform effective safeguarding practice. Design: An analysis of all cases of Forced Marriage reported to the UK Government’s Forced Marriage Unit (FMU) between 2009 and 2015. Findings: People with learning disabilities are at five times greater risk of Forced Marriage than people without learning disabilities. Men and women with learning disabilities are equally likely to be Forced to marry, whereas amongst the general population women are more likely than men to be Forced to marry. Patterns of ethnicity, geographic location within the UK and reporters are the same for people with and without learning disabilities. Research limitations: The analysis is based on cases reported to the FMU, and for some cases the data held was incomplete. More importantly, many cases go unreported and so the FMU data does not necessarily reflect all cases of Forced Marriage in the UK. Practical implications: Forced Marriage of people with learning disabilities is a safeguarding issue. Practitioners across health, education, criminal justice and social care need to better understand the risk of Forced Marriage for people with learning disabilities. Links to practice resources developed as part of the wider project are provided. Originality: This is the first time that researchers have been given access to FMU data and the first time that a statistical analysis of cases of Forced Marriage involving someone with a learning disability have been analysed.
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Forced Marriage of people with learning disabilities a human rights issue
Disability & Society, 2017Co-Authors: Rachael Clawson, Rachel FysonAbstract:This paper reports some of the findings of an exploratory study which sought to better understand the demographics of Forced Marriage of people with learning disabilities and the contexts in which such Marriages may occur. It was found that Forced Marriages of people with and without learning disabilities showed broad similarities in relation to ethnicity, some differences in terms of age and substantial differences in terms of gender. Men and women with learning disabilities are equally likely to be victims of Forced Marriage. The reasons for people with learning disabilities being Forced to marry are most often associated with a desire on the part of families to secure permanent care, but can also be associated with cultural (mis)understandings of the nature of disability. These findings are contextualised by considering the relationship between Forced Marriage, human rights and learning disability.
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safeguarding people with learning disabilities from Forced Marriage the role of safeguarding adult boards
The Journal of Adult Protection, 2016Co-Authors: Rachael ClawsonAbstract:Purpose The issue of Forced Marriage is typically located within debates on violence against women, immigration control and cultural difference and is rarely considered in relation to adults with learning disabilities. The purpose of this paper is to argue that this is an issue which needs to be addressed by Safeguarding Adult Boards. Design/methodology/approach This paper draws upon original research undertaken by the author in conjunction with the Ann Craft Trust, a voluntary sector organisation which supports statutory, independent and voluntary sector organisations across the UK to protect adults at risk. The project sought to establish the extent to which the issue of Forced Marriage of people with learning disabilities is recognised, understood and acted upon by Boards. Findings Although many Boards are aware of national policy guidelines, very few had incorporated these guidelines into their local practice. There were two key consequences of this. First, Boards were failing to monitor cases of Forced Marriage and were unable to plan preventative services. Second, frontline workers were not given necessary training and so were unable to develop effective skills of knowledge. The need for both better recognition of and improved responses to the problem of Forced Marriage of people with learning disabilities is highlighted, as is the need for the safeguarding workforce to be supported by more effective strategic planning and better training. Originality/value This paper draws upon original research which examined how Safeguarding Adult Boards are responding to the issue of Forced Marriage of people with learning disabilities – a problem currently very much under-represented in existing research and practice literature.
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Safeguarding people with learning disabilities at risk of Forced Marriage
Social Work & Social Sciences Review, 2013Co-Authors: Rachael ClawsonAbstract:The issue of Forced Marriage is often located within debates on violence against women, immigration control and cultural difference and rarely considers the very specific needs of children and adults with learning disabilities. Motivating factors for forcing people with learning disabilities to marry can differ from those frequently seen in Forced Marriage per se; most commonly they include obtaining a carer and can typically be related to the perceived stigma of disability in some communities. Many families, and indeed some practitioners, would not necessarily recognise a Forced Marriage as such; this has implications for inter-agency safeguarding practice. This paper considers the complexities involved in safeguarding people with learning disabilities who might be at risk and considers the factors impacting upon adequate safeguarding policy and inter-agency practice. Recommendations are made for future policy and service development in this complex and largely neglected area of practice.
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Forced Marriage implications for mental health and intellectual disability services
Advances in Psychiatric Treatment, 2013Co-Authors: Bushra Rauf, Nadia Saleem, Rachael Clawson, Mandy Sanghera, Geoff MarstonAbstract:There has been growing media and political awareness of Forced Marriage in recent years, and individuals in England, Wales and Northern Ireland are now protected by the Forced Marriage (Civil Protection) Act 2007. Victims of Forced Marriage can experience significant abuse, which may lead to mental health problems. People with severe mental illness or intellectual disability may be at increased risk of Forced Marriage and more vulnerable to its negative consequences. We review the current literature on Forced Marriage, focusing on the way it might affect these two groups, touch on its potential mental health consequences and give practical examples of how to manage situations in clinical practice.