Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies Volume 19 Issue 1 Article 9 Winter 2012 Adjudicating the Intersection of Marital Immigration, Domestic Violence, and Spousal Murder: China-Taiwan Marriages and Competing Legal Domains Sara L. Friedman Indiana University,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/ijgls Part of the Comparative and Foreign Law Commons, Family Law Commons, Immigration Law Commons, and the International Law Commons Recommended Citation Friedman, Sara L. (2012) "Adjudicating the Intersection of Marital Immigration, Domestic Violence, and Spousal Murder: China-Taiwan Marriages and Competing Legal Domains," Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies: Vol. 19 : Iss. 1 , Article 9. Available at: https://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/ijgls/vol19/iss1/9 This Symposium is brought to you for free and open access by the Law School Journals at Digital Repository @ Maurer Law. It has been accepted for inclusion in Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies by an authorized editor of Digital Repository @ Maurer Law. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Adjudicating the Intersection of Marital Immigration, Domestic Violence, and Spousal Murder: China-Taiwan Marriages and Competing Legal Domains SARA L. FRIEDMAN* ABSTRACT Cross-border marriages and other forms of family reunification dominate officially recognized migratory flows around the world today, and they offer the most widely recognized path to naturalized citizenship in destination countries. At the same time, however, transnational marriages may also rest on shaky foundations precisely because immigrant spouses depend on their citizen partnerfor legal status. When marriagesfail due to domestic violence, they expose the incompatibility of different legal domains organized around domestic violence prevention and immigration regulation.