Social Service Worker SSW371 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Visible Minority, Gastrointestinal Disease, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
15 Nov 2020
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It is therefore imperative that social service workers in the vaw sector understand the extreme complexity of these women"s lives in order to ally with them effectively. It is factual that being a woman, particularly those on the margins of society is a risky gender. Immigration status may affect a woman"s ability to seek and obtain government income assistance, hindering any attempt to leave and furthering economic dependence on the abuser. Immigrant women may experience severe financial restriction and control in dv situations. Immigration status may also prevent women from accessing police and criminal justice services due to fears of deportation. Increased cultural competency and attention to language barriers among service providers can facilitate such assistance. It is a fallacy to think that all women suffer equally from ipv: the concept of the universal woman homogenizes individual women"s experiences, no form of oppression is considered more critical than any other.
