“Everything is difficult in a place where everything is foreign” - A study of female immigrants’ experiences of living in Denmark and suffering domestic violence
(2020) SIMV09 20201Graduate School
- Abstract (Swedish)
- This thesis is a case study exploring the experiences of female immigrants living in Denmark and of suffering gender-based domestic violence. Through a phenomenological analysis, the thesis investigates the stories told by female immigrants in interviews collected specifically for this thesis as well as for the podcast project Merantis. By investigating female immigrants’ experiences of suffering gender-based domestic violence, the thesis aims to elicit the intersectionality of being a female immigrant and being subject to gender-based domestic violence.
Based on the stories told by both female immigrants and Danish health visitors, the thesis argues that the experience of being a female immigrant intersects with the experience of... (More) - This thesis is a case study exploring the experiences of female immigrants living in Denmark and of suffering gender-based domestic violence. Through a phenomenological analysis, the thesis investigates the stories told by female immigrants in interviews collected specifically for this thesis as well as for the podcast project Merantis. By investigating female immigrants’ experiences of suffering gender-based domestic violence, the thesis aims to elicit the intersectionality of being a female immigrant and being subject to gender-based domestic violence.
Based on the stories told by both female immigrants and Danish health visitors, the thesis argues that the experience of being a female immigrant intersects with the experience of suffering gender-based domestic violence because both experiences are characterised by a feeling of losing identity and agency, and of feeling vulnerable and dependent on others. In line with theory on help-seeking processes and the critical path of survivors of domestic violence, the informants confirmed that to resist domestic violence, as well as to integrate into Danish society, empathetic and intersubjective interaction is needed. (Less)
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- author
- Rasmussen, Ingrid LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- SIMV09 20201
- year
- 2020
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- Migration, Domestic violence, Feminist security
- language
- English
- id
- 9030239
- date added to LUP
- 2020-10-05 10:50:37
- date last changed
- 2020-10-05 10:50:37
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abstract = {{This thesis is a case study exploring the experiences of female immigrants living in Denmark and of suffering gender-based domestic violence. Through a phenomenological analysis, the thesis investigates the stories told by female immigrants in interviews collected specifically for this thesis as well as for the podcast project Merantis. By investigating female immigrants’ experiences of suffering gender-based domestic violence, the thesis aims to elicit the intersectionality of being a female immigrant and being subject to gender-based domestic violence.
Based on the stories told by both female immigrants and Danish health visitors, the thesis argues that the experience of being a female immigrant intersects with the experience of suffering gender-based domestic violence because both experiences are characterised by a feeling of losing identity and agency, and of feeling vulnerable and dependent on others. In line with theory on help-seeking processes and the critical path of survivors of domestic violence, the informants confirmed that to resist domestic violence, as well as to integrate into Danish society, empathetic and intersubjective interaction is needed.}},
author = {{Rasmussen, Ingrid}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{“Everything is difficult in a place where everything is foreign” - A study of female immigrants’ experiences of living in Denmark and suffering domestic violence}},
year = {{2020}},
}