Discuss the Barriers South Asian Women Face in Leaving a Violent

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The Answer is Varies. May include the following:
-lacking all of the following: social support from women's organizations, culturally sensitive domestic violence shelters, support from informal kin and friendship networks, a job and financial resources
-support factors: social support, structural and material resources, knowledge of formal support networks and systems
-individual factors: safety fears, fear for future/ deportation, inability to live alone in the U.S., lack of jobs, language skills, desire to stay in relationship, fear for children's futures
-values and norms-related factors: social, community, and family norms, community/family expectation, patriarchy and prescribed gender roles.
-skills.

Discuss the Barriers South Asian Women Face in Leaving a Violent

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