Tensions in providing services to South Asian victims of wife abuse in Toronto

Violence Against Woman

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 153-179

  Agnew, Vijay ^a  

^a NONE

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ARTICLE; ASIANS--WOMEN; CANADA; CRIME; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL BACKGROUND; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE--WOMEN; ECONOMIC FACTORS; ECONOMICS; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; FEMINISM; IMMIGRANTS--WOMEN; MIGRANTS; MIGRATION; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; POPULATION; POPULATION AND POPULATION RELATED PHENOMENA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESEARCH; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SOCIAL WELFARE; SOCIOECONOMICS; SUMMARY REPORT; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WOMEN'S RIGHTS; WOMEN'S STATUS;

AMERICAS; ASIANS--WOMEN; CANADA; CRIME; CULTURAL BACKGROUND; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE--WOMEN; ECONOMIC FACTORS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMINISM; IMMIGRANTS--WOMEN; MIGRANTS; MIGRATION; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOCIAL PROBLEMS; SOCIAL WELFARE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUMMARY REPORT; WOMEN; WOMEN'S STATUS;

AMERICAS; CANADA; CRIME; CULTURE; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; ECONOMICS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMINISM; NORTH AMERICA; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESEARCH; SOCIAL PROBLEMS; SOCIAL WELFARE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; WOMEN; WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

EID: 0032034175     PISSN: 10778012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1077801298004002003     Document Type: Article

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