Transnational marriage abandonment

Abstract

This chapter addresses the issue of domestic violence and abuse within transnational spaces by focusing on the abandonment of wives as a form of domestic violence against women who marry across national borders. Transnational marriage abandonment has been recently recognised as a form of domestic violence following activism by feminist organisations. This chapter draws from our 2013–16 study conducted in India and the existing research and policy developments on this emerging theme in South Asia, Canada, Australia, England and Wales, to outline the specificity of this form of violence and its implications for understanding violence against women through the lens of intersectionality.