Girls with honour‐related problems in a comparative perspective

Schlytter, Astrid; Linell, Hanna

doi:10.1111/j.1468-2397.2009.00651.x

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“…Honour-related violence and forced marriages are issues that have attracted attention both in Sweden and internationally over the past decade (Anitha & Gill, 2009;Korteweg & Yurdakul, 2010;Schlytter & Linell, 2010). Two survey studies of adolescents in Sweden were conducted in the 2000s in order to identify exposure to honour-related violence or forced marriage (National Board of Health and Welfare, 2007;Schlytter, Högdin, Ghadimi, Backlund, & Rexvid, 2009).…”

Section: Children Subjected To Violence By Parents And/or Other Relatmentioning

confidence: 99%

The characteristics and extent of child abuse: findings from a study of the Swedish Social Services child protection

Linell

2016

European Journal of Social Work

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Section: Children Subjected To Violence By Parents And/or Other Relatmentioning

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The characteristics and extent of child abuse: findings from a study of the Swedish Social Services child protection

Linell

2016

European Journal of Social Work

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“…This makes migrant women in western environments that lack personal networks particularly vulnerable. For instance, in Sweden, girls ages 13-18 who were removed from their homes due to concerns over HBV felt extremely isolated (Schlytter and Linell 2010), a finding substantiated by Wikström and Ghazinour (2010), who also found through interviews with young women of Middle Eastern and African backgrounds staying in Swedish shelters that new feelings of isolation emerged after the women were removed from their families. In Das Dasgupta and Warrier's (1996) research with predominantly middle-class Indian women in the United States, participants stated that feelings of isolation and possible ostracism from their ethnic community kept them from exiting abusive relationships; additionally these women feared that if they left their violent husbands, their natal families in India would be disgraced, showcasing again how shaming transpires across multiple ecological levels.…”

Section: Honor-based Violence and Hegemonic Masculinitymentioning

confidence: 95%

A Review of the Literature on Honor‐based Violence

Mayeda

Vijaykumar

2016

Sociology Compass

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Honor-based violence (HBV) is a serious concern for women and girls from particular ethnic backgrounds. Unfortunately, while the sociology discipline pays significant attention to gender-based violence in western contexts, HBV is a topic under-studied in the field. This article reviews the literature on HBV, typically coming from social work, cultural studies, and feminist studies, and focuses on the phenomena's link to notions of masculinity and femininity, its collective nature, and the ways an Orientalist discourse has developed in western regions that address HBV. The article closes by identifying gaps in the existing literature, and offers suggestions for future directions.

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“…Despite the discussion about how to define HBV, there is a growing body of research on this type of violence, the most common being surveys or legal documents studies (Bates 2017;Hayes et al 2016;Schlytter and Linell 2010), but there are also some small qualitative interview studies with female victims (Blum et al 2016;Author 2012). The most common and significant aspect of this body of research is the victims' extraordinarily vulnerable situation.…”

Section: Young Women and Honor-based Violencementioning

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Honor-Based Violence in Sweden – Norms of Honor and Chastity

Björktomta

2019

J Fam Viol

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This article investigates the nature of honor-related domestic violence as experienced by 11 young female victims (aged 16-20) with non-Swedish-born parents. It examines what forms of violence are involved and how they are related to each other and looks at the differences and similarities to non-honor-related domestic violence. Qualitative, individual interviews were made with young women who, when in contact with counselors, mid-wives or social workers, said that they were living with restrictions over their social life and sexuality with some level of control imposed by another person. Accordingly, it is young women's subjective assessment of their experience which defined their inclusion in this study. The analysis has been a recursive process with a theory-oriented approach that uses Bourdieu's concept of symbolic violence as a theoretical lens. The participants belonged to patriarchal families in a particular cultural/religious community and lived under various types of coercive control. For the participants, the core concept of the family norms was twofold: honor and firm demands for chastity. There was a strong link between the restrictions they experienced and their vulnerability to various forms of violence, alongside accounts of strong emotional ties between father and daughter, in most cases. The participants' scope for action was affected irrespective of they were physically abused or not. The findings contribute to an initial understanding of how nonviolent controlling behaviors affect young women's scope for action and highlight daughters' vulnerable situation in a patriarchal family.

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Girls with honour‐related problems in a comparative perspective

Cited by 29 publications

References 8 publications

The characteristics and extent of child abuse: findings from a study of the Swedish Social Services child protection

The characteristics and extent of child abuse: findings from a study of the Swedish Social Services child protection

A Review of the Literature on Honor‐based Violence

Honor-Based Violence in Sweden – Norms of Honor and Chastity

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