The forced marriage debate and the British state

Race and Class

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 25-38

  Wilson, Amrit ^a  

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Author keywords

'Honour killings'; Anti Muslim racism; Domestic violence; Immigration controls; South Asian women; Women's refuges

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250322243     PISSN: 03063968     EISSN: 17413125     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0306396807080065     Document Type: Review

References (36)

1. Extract from a speech given at Imkaan's roundtable discussion, 'Responding to violence against women in the name of "honour"', 22 November 2006.
2. 'Honour killings' and 'honour crimes' are enormously problematic notions that have largely been rejected by the feminist movement. For a further discussion, see Lynn Welchman and Sara Hossain (eds), 'Honour': crimes, paradigms and violence against women (London, Zed, 2006)
3. and Aisha Gill, 'Honour-based violence in the UK', paper prepared for the Kvinnoforum Scherezad Project, 2004.
4. Matt Weaver, 'Councils face cuts to homes support budget', Guardian Society (2 December 2004).
5. Ravi Thiara and Shamshad Hussain, Supporting Some People: supporting people and services for Asian women and children affected by domestic violence (London, Imkaan, 2005).
6. 〈http://www.spkweb.org.uk〉.
7. Amrit Wilson, Dreams, Questions, Struggles: South Asian women in Britain (London, Pluto Press, 2006), p. 168.
8. Veronica Cooke, Sonia Davis and Amrit Wilson, Domestic Violence Service Provision: black women's perspectives, a report commissioned by the Domestic Violence Black Perspective Task Group and supported by Northamptonshire County Council Race Consultative Panel, 1999.
9. In 1999, the House of Lords, in the case of two women asylum seekers, Syeda Shah and Shahanna Islam, recognised that women in Pakistan constituted a 'particular social group' facing persecution. However, women at risk of violence are still deported to Pakistan, despite this legal precedent. Wilson, Dreams, Questions, Struggles, op. cit., p. 82.
10. A. Sivanandan, 'Race, terror and civil society', Race & Class (Vol. 47, no. 3, 2006), p. 3.
11. Amrit Wilson and Kalpana Wilson, '"Ethnicity", "Race" and Racism' in Georgina Blakeley and Valerie Bryson (eds), Contemporary Political Concepts: a critical introduction (London, Pluto Press, 2002).
12. Claire Alexander, 'Re-imagining the Muslim community', Innovation (Vol. 11, no. 4, December 1998).
13. Hansard, House of Commons, 10 February 1999, Column 259.
14. Hannana Siddiqui, '"It was written in her kismet": forced marriage', in Rahila Gupta (ed.), From Homebreakers to Jailbreakers: Southall Black Sisters (London, Zed, 2003), pp. 79-80.
15. A Choice by Right: the report of the working group on forced marriage (Home Office, June 2000).
16. 'Forced marriage - the overseas dimension - our commitment', statement by Mike O'Brien (Home Office), Barbara Roche (Home Office), Keith Vaz (Foreign and Commonwealth Office) and Patricia Scotland (Foreign and Commonwealth Office), 4 August 2000, 〈http://www.fco.gov.uk/servlet/Front?pagename = OpenMarket/Xcelerate/ShowPagc&c = Page&cid = 1007029395717〈.
17. For a longer discussion of the colonial counterparts of the forced marriage initiative, see Wilson, Dreams, Questions, Struggles, op. cit., pp. 88-9.
18. A Choice by Right, op. cit., p. 4.
19. Colin Brown, 'If we want social cohesion we need a sense of identity', interview with David Blunkett, Independent on Sunday (9 December 2001), p. 4.
20. R (Baiai) v Secretary of State for Home Department.
21. See Wilson, Dreams, Questions, Struggles, op. cit., p. 92.
22. Hansard, House of Lords, 26 January 2007, Columns 1320-1.
23. Michael White, 'Westminster divided over curbs on forced marriages', Guardian (26 January 2007).
24. Thomas Babington Macaulay, 'Minute on Indian education', 2 February 1835.
25. Imkaan is an organisation that provides advocacy and support to more than thirty refuges and women's organisations serving black and minority ethnic women and children experiencing domestic violence.
26. Imkaan, 'Civil protection on forced marriages', 15 January 2007.
27. In the UK, two women are murdered every day by their partners or former partners. Sylvia Walby, The Cost of Domestic Violence (Women & Equality Unit, 2004), p. 30.
28. Equal Opportunities Commission, 'Letter to Lord Lester', 24 January 2007.
29. 'Westminster divided over curbs on forced marriages', Letter to Lord Lester, op. cit.
30. Louise Tickle, 'Help for bullied brides', Guardian Society (26 January 2007).
31. Jasvinder Sanghera, Shame (London, Hodder & Stoughton, 2007).
32. 'Help for bullied brides', Shame, op. cit.
33. Mary Riddell, Gaby Hinsliff and Jamie Doward, 'Blair U-turn over forced marriages', Observer (4 March 2007).
34. Speaking of the evils of forced marriage at a House of Lords meeting, Butler-Sloss described a murder in which a father stabbed both his daughters.
35. Interview with author, February 2007.
36. Emily Brittain, Holly Dustin, Caroline Pearce, Katherine Rake, Mamusa Siyunyi-Siluwe, Fay Sullivan, Black & Minority Ethnic Women in the UK (London, Fawcett Society, February 2005), p. 39.