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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780534503321

Autore

Agnew Vijay <1946->

Titolo

In search of a safe place : abused women and culturally sensitive services / / Vijay Agnew

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1998

©1998

ISBN

1-4426-7605-1

1-282-02830-8

9786612028304

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (316 p.)

Disciplina

362.82/92/08900971

Soggetti

Abused women - Services for - Canada

Minority women - Services for - Canada

Livres numeriques.

e-books.

Electronic books.

Kanada

Canada

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""CONTENTS""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""Introduction""; ""1. Immigrant Communities in Canada""; ""2. Wife Abuse""; ""3. Settlement Services and Community-based Organizations""; ""4. Social Services and Advocacy by Community-based Groups""; ""5. Counsellors and Their Work""; ""6. Interviews with Counsellors""; ""7. Counsellors and Women in Shelters""; ""Conclusion""; ""NOTES""; ""REFERENCES""; ""INDEX""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""

Sommario/riassunto

"Marginalized in the larger society and in the mainstream women's movement, immigrant women are also outsiders in women's shelters, where racially sensitive and linguistically appropriate counselling is generally unavailable. In this book, Vijay Agnew documents the struggles of Canadian women's centres to provide better services to



victims of wife abuse from Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean."--Jacket.