Provides social work students and practitioners with critical analysis and practical guidance for working with abused women who are marginalized because of immigrant, refugee, or Aboriginal status. Out of the Shadows demonstrates the increased risk faced by these women when they are victims of domestic violence, due to the racism inherent in our judicial and social systems.

AcknowledgementsIntroductionPart I: Theories, Campaigns, Practice, And PolicyChapter 1: Explaining the Abuse of Women: An Examination of Conventional and Dominant Theoretical Perspectives - Josephine FongChapter 2: An Opportunity to Publicize the Private: Public Education Campaigns and Domestic Violence in Ontario - Samantha MajicChapter 3: Women Are Still Unsafe: Cracks in Best Practice and Mandatory Arrest Policies - Josephine FongPart II: Experiences Of Activists And Helping ProfessionalsChapter 4: Challenges, Connections, and Creativity: Anti-violence Work with Racialized Women - Cyndy BaskinChapter 5: Beyond Cultural Stereotypes: Chinese-Canadian Helping Professionals' Perspectives on Woman Abuse within the Chinese-Canadian Community in Toronto - Josephine FongChapter 6: Experiences of Front-line Shelter Workers in Providing Services to Immigrant Women Impacted by Family Violence - Angie RupraChapter 7: Overview of Domestic Violence in the South Asian Community in Canada: Prevalence, Issues, and Recommendations - Ritu Choksi, Sabra Desai, and Andalee AdamaliPart III: The Lived Experiences Of WomenChapter 8: Changes in Gender Relations as a Risk Factor for Marital Conflict and Intimate Partner Violence: A Study of Ethiopian Immigrant Couples in Canada - Ilene Hyman, Robin Mason, Sepali Guruge, Girma Mekonnen, NOreen Stuckless, Taryn Tang, and Hiwot TefferaChapter 9: Chinese Immigrant Women Confronting Male Violence in Their Lives - Josephine FongChapter 10: Praying for Divorce: The Abuse of Jewish Women through Jewish Divorce Law - Lisa RosenbergChapter 11: Violence against Women: Nigerian-Canadian Women's Experiences - Ngozi L. NwosuChapter 12: Perceptions of Intimate Male Partner Violence and Determinants of Women's Responses to It: Findings from a Study in the Sri Lankan Tamil Community in TorontoNotes ReferencesAbout the Contributors

The book not only details the accounts of immigrant, refugee, and Aboriginal women's experiences of abuse, but highlights how other social locations may impact the women's coping and healing. It provides a richer understanding of intimate partner violence from the perspectives of culturally diverse women and those who assist them."" - Kendra Nixon, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Social Work, University of Manitoba