Women on the move: theorising the geographies of domestic violence journeys in England
Women on the move: theorising the geographies of domestic violence journeys in England
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流动中的女性：英国家庭暴力历程的地理理论
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2017
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J. Bowstead
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摘要本文借鉴了一个混合方法的研究项目，映射和量化妇女的旅程，以逃避家庭暴力在英格兰，并建立在实证研究结果的理论化的性质，这样的旅程。确定一个过程中的性别移民在英国，它探讨了这些旅程使用的概念，被迫流亡国际移民研究;和空间内的根茎和树状运动的概念。英国每年有数万名妇女和儿童因家庭暴力而被迫搬迁，但他们的旅程在政策和实践中未得到充分承认，在他们与其他移民的关系方面也未得到充分的理论化。该研究利用妇女和儿童前往的住房相关支持服务的行政数据，以及搬迁妇女的采访、调查和创造性小组工作数据，实现了旅程的个人和集体性质的概念化。从经验上看，这一过程是非常个别和复杂的，有多个部分;但也包括妇女在一个更集体和结构性的背景下理解个人侵犯其人权的可能性。因此，研究将这些家庭暴力旅程概念化为从被迫的个人流亡者，通过复杂的，分散的和根茎状的飞行路线，走向散居联系和重新安置和归属的过程。侧重于这种旅程的早期阶段，本文提供了一个理论框架，使人们能够更好地了解妇女的行动，以逃避暴力，并为预防和服务的反应的基础。
Abstract This article draws on a mixed-methods research project which mapped and quantified women’s journeys to escape domestic violence in England, and builds on the empirical findings to theorise about the nature of such journeys. Identifying a process of gendered migration within the United Kingdom it explores these journeys using concepts of forced exile from international migration research; and concepts of rhizomic and dendriform movement within space. Tens of thousands of women and children within the UK are forced to relocate due to domestic violence every year, yet their journeys have been under-recognised in policy and practice, and under-theorised in terms of their relationship to other migrations. Using administrative data from housing-related support services to which women and children travel, and interview, survey and creative groupwork data from women who have relocated, the research enabled conceptualisation of both the individual and aggregated nature of the journeys. Empirically the journeys are found to be very individual and complex, with multiple segments; but including the possibility of women understanding the individual violation of their human rights within a more collective and structural context. The research therefore conceptualises these domestic violence journeys as moving from forced individual exiles, via complex, fragmented and rhizomic lines of flight, towards diasporic connections and processes of resettlement and belonging. Focusing on the early stages of such journeys, this article provides a theoretical framework which enables both a greater understanding of women’s actions to escape violence, and an underpinning for preventative and service responses.