Impacts of Culture on Perceptions of Intimate Partner Violence Among Fijian Indian Women in the United States.

Journal of forensic nursing Pub Date : 2023-04-01 Epub Date: 2023-04-19 DOI:10.1097/JFN.0000000000000440
Shayal S Prasad, Julie T Bidwell, Jann L Murray-García
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Introduction: South Asian women are at a higher risk for experiencing intimate partner violence (IPV) in the United States. Fijian Indian (FI) women are part of the diverse South Asian diaspora; however, there are no published data on their experience with IPV. This phenomenological study (a) examined if FI culture influences how women define, experience, and seek help for IPV and (b) identified impacts these themes have on FI women's IPV-related help-seeking, behaviors in regard to U.S. health systems and law enforcement.

Methods: Ten FI women in California, 18 years and older, who either were born in Fiji or had parents born in Fiji, were recruited through convenience and snowball sampling. Semistructured interviews took place either face-to-face or via Zoom. Transcribed interview data underwent reflective thematic analysis by two members of the research team.

Results: Normalizing and silencing of IPV events are bolstered by cultural practices of (a) familism/collectivism that ask women to prioritize family intactness over their own emotional and physical safety, (b) traditional patriarchal gender roles, (c) threats of shame and judgment within the community, and (d) the gendered hierarchy tenets of some forms of Hinduism. FI women are more inclined to seek help for IPV from within versus outside the family, with healthcare providers and law enforcement described as women's last choices for assistance.

Conclusions: Although a small and regionalized immigrant community, this study of FI women reflects the importance of health and human service providers' understanding of the histories and cultural nuances of the local immigrant populations they serve.

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导言:在美国,南亚妇女遭受亲密伴侣暴力(IPV)的风险较高。斐济印第安人(FI)妇女是多样化南亚移民社群的一部分;然而,目前还没有关于她们遭遇 IPV 的公开数据。本现象学研究(a)探讨了斐济文化是否会影响女性对 IPV 的定义、体验和求助;(b)确定了这些主题对斐济女性寻求 IPV 相关帮助以及对美国医疗系统和执法行为的影响:通过便利抽样和滚雪球抽样的方式,在加利福尼亚州招募了 10 名 18 岁及以上的斐济女性,她们要么出生在斐济,要么父母出生在斐济。面对面或通过 Zoom 进行了半结构化访谈。研究小组的两名成员对转录的访谈数据进行了反思性专题分析:IPV事件的正常化和沉默化得到了以下文化习俗的支持:(a)家庭主义/集体主义要求妇女将家庭的完整置于自身的情感和人身安全之上;(b)传统的父权制性别角色;(c)社区内的羞耻和评判威胁;以及(d)某些形式的印度教的性别等级信条。与家庭以外的人相比,芬兰移民妇女更倾向于向家庭内部寻求 IPV 方面的帮助,医疗服务提供者和执法部门被描述为妇女寻求帮助的最后选择:虽然这只是一个小规模和区域化的移民社区,但这项针对 FI 妇女的研究反映了医疗和人类服务提供者了解他们所服务的当地移民人口的历史和文化细微差别的重要性。
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