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Intimate Partner Violence Among Korean Immigrant Women In The United States: Intersectionality Of Gender Norms, Immigration, And Socioeconomic Status

Document Type

Article

Keywords

gender norms, immigration, intersectionality, intimate partner violence, socioeconomic status

Journal/Book/Conference Title

Journal of Family Issues

Abstract

With the theory of feminist intersectionality, this study examined intimate partner violence (IPV) among Korean immigrant women focusing on gender norms, immigration, and socioeconomic status in the contexts of Korean culture. A total of 83 Korean immigrant women who were receiving a social service from non-profit agencies in ethnically diverse urban areas were recruited with a purposive sampling method. Hierarchical regressions were conducted to examine changes in variance explained by models. Having non-traditional gender norms, a college degree or higher education, immigrant life stresses, and living longer in the United States were positively associated with IPV while having higher income and being more fluent in English were negatively associated with IPV. Findings were discussed to understand Korean immigrant women’s internal conflict affected by their higher education and more egalitarian gender norms under the patriarchal cultural norms while experiencing immigrant life stresses and living in the United States. Implication for practice was also discussed.

Department

Department of Social Work

Original Publication Date

1-1-2021

DOI of published version

10.1177/0192513X211017945

Repository

UNI ScholarWorks, Rod Library, University of Northern Iowa

Language

en

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