Intimate Partner Violence in the Sub-Saharan African Immigrant Community in Chicago: A Changing Landscape

Kathryn Wenham; Bernadette Sebar; Patricia Lee; Neil Harris; Gabrielle Campbell

doi:10.3390/ epidemiologia3030026

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Intimate Partner Violence in the Sub-Saharan African Immigrant Community in Chicago: A Changing Landscape

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Intimate Partner Violence in the Sub-Saharan African Immigrant Community in Chicago: A Changing Landscape

Kathryn Wenham, Bernadette Sebar, Patricia Lee, Neil Harris and Gabrielle Campbell

Epidemiologia, Vol.3(3), pp.337-352

2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/ epidemiologia3030026

PMCID: PMC9620894

PMID: 36417242

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intimate partner violence

violence against women

African immigrants

UniSC Diversity Area - Gender Equity

UniSC Diversity Area - Cultural and Linguistic Diversity

The challenges of conducting research on intimate partner violence (IPV) in immigrant communities means little is known about the occurrence of various forms of IPV, making it difficult to address in these populations. This research draws on data gathered in Chicago’s large and varied African immigrant communities. This research used a mixed methods approach: collection of quantitative survey data on occurrence, followed by qualitative interviews to explain the results. Missing quantitative data and contradicting qualitative responses made it difficult to draw definite conclusions on physical IPV; however, verbal abuse and controlling behaviours appear to be relatively widespread and normalised, and not always viewed as violence. Particularly with the probability of future pandemics and natural disasters, which are known to increase prevalence, it is important to raise awareness of less visible controlling behaviours and verbal abuse as forms of violence, and to implement appropriate prevention programs to minimise a concomitant rise in IPV within African immigrant communities.

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Title: Intimate Partner Violence in the Sub-Saharan African Immigrant Community in Chicago: A Changing Landscape
Authors: Kathryn Wenham (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Legacy
Bernadette Sebar (Author) - Griffith University
Patricia Lee (Author) - Griffith University
Neil Harris (Author) - Griffith University
Gabrielle Campbell (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Legacy
Publication details: Epidemiologia, Vol.3(3), pp.337-352
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date published: 2022
DOI: 10.3390/ epidemiologia3030026
ISSN: 2673-3986
PMID: 36417242; PMC9620894
Copyright note: This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited
Organisation Unit: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Legacy; School of Health - Public Health
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99654998302621
Output Type: Journal article

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