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Defining Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/ Transgender Issue 2011-1 728-602 West Hastings Street, Vancouver BC V6B 1P2 Tel 604.633.2506 Fax 604.633.2507 www.endingviolence.org INCREASING THE SAFETY AND WELLNESS OF WOMEN IMPACTED BY VIOLENCE his year’s theme for National immigrant brides, and Janice Victims of Crime Awareness Ristock and Norma Timbang’s article TWeek (NVCAW) April 10 – discusses some of the challenges to 16, “Many Voices, Many Paths”, addressing relationship violence speaks to the wide range of people within lesbian/gay/ bisexual/trans- impacted by crime in our country gendered/queer (lgbtq) communities. and their experiences, as well as The work of Myrna Dawson’s team the range and experiences of those offers an analysis of national trends who work on their behalf. in intimate partner homicides in Canada from 1976 to 2001 while In keeping with this theme, EVA BC Leslie Ann Jeffrey and Barbara is pleased to offer readers this Sullivan examine sex worker policy Special Edition EVA BC Journal, in Canada and the lack of practical “Increasing the Safety and solutions to make women safe Wellness of Women Impacted by while showing some comparisons Violence”, showcasing research to what has happened in Australia relevant to workers in the anti- on this issue. violence sector. In this issue, the strong Aboriginal voices of Jessica It is hoped the varied and strong Yee and Dawn Martin Hill look, voices of the authors presented respectively, at the connection between sexual violence and will help to broaden and deepen knowledge in the field sex education, and restoring wellness strategies based on and add to the larger, collective voice of all those who traditional medicine. Well-known scholar and activist work to increase the safety and wellness of all women Shamita Das Dasgupta looks at the abandonment of in our province and around the globe. INSIDE THIS ISSUE Woman Abuse in a Globalizing World: Abandonment of Asian Indian Women By Shamita Das Dasgupta..............................................................................................................................................................p. 3 Moving Beyond a Gender Based Framework By Janice Ristock and Norma Timbang ......................................................................................................................................p. 7 Making the Connections at the Native Youth Sexual Health Network: Sexual Violence and Sex Education By Jessica Yee ..............................................................................................................................................................................p. 19 National Trends in Intimate Partner Homicides: Explaining Declines in Canada, 1976 to 2001 By Myrna Dawson et al. ..............................................................................................................................................................p. 25 Canadian Sex Work Policy for the 21st Century: Enhancing Rights and Safety, Lessons from Australia By Leslie Ann Jeffrey and Barbara Sullivan ............................................................................................................................p. 47 Traditional Medicine and Restoration of Wellness Strategies By Dawn Martin Hill ......................................................................................................................................................................p. 62 EVA BC NVCAW SPECIAL EDITION/SPRING 2011 MESSAGE FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR It is my great pleasure to welcome EVA BC Members, partners and other readers to this special ‘journal-like’ edition of our Newsletter in recognition of National Victims of Crime Awareness Week (NVCAW), 2011. We are proud to have worked on this journal with the Women and Gender Studies Department of the University of British Columbia and give profound thanks to them, their Chair, Ending Violence Association Becki Ross and to the funder for this project, the Department of Justice, Canada. of British Columbia (EVA BC) The articles presented here bring strong research and background to a number 728-602 West Hastings Street of issues being discussed throughout the province and across the country. For Vancouver, BC V6B 1P2 example, Dawn Martin Hill’s article about Aboriginal wellness strategies focused Phone: 604-633-2506 on culturally oriented interventions and prevention echoes what we heard last Fax: 604-633-2507 month from Traditional Health Specialist Ruby Morgan at EVA BC’s Northwest Toll-free (members only): Gathering focused on safety for Aboriginal women that took place in Terrace, 1-877-633-2505 BC. Along these lines, the groundbreaking work of Jessica Yee, the Executive [email protected] Director of the Native Youth Sexual Health Network, the first and only organization www.endingviolence.org of its kind in North America by and for Indigenous youth, is highlighted. Editor In light of far too much tragedy in BC regarding the deaths of women in the sex Nancy Boyce trade and the recent news that the Supreme Court of Canada will soon review Canadian law related to sex work (based on a court case brought forward by sex Layout and Design workers from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside), you will find timely and Britt Permien informative, up to date analysis of Canadian sex worker policy written by Leslie Ann Jeffrey and Barbara Sullivan. Research from EVA BC’s project, Safety for Contributors Immigrant, Refugee, and Non-Status Women, has highlighted a number Thierno Balde, Valerie Pottie Bunge, of issues impacting the safety of immigrant women and for this NVCAW Special Shamita Das Dasgupta, Myrna Dawson, Edition, we are pleased and honored that Shamita Das Dasgupta has written an Leslie Ann Jeffrey, Dawn Martin Hill, article for us about the plight of immigrant brides abandoned by their non- Janice Ristock, Barbara Sullivan, Norma resident husbands. Timbang, Jessica Yee. Tied in with the focus of this year’s International Day Against Homophobia, This newsletter is published two times per year and provided free of charge to EVA BC members. The “healthy queer relationships”, is research by Janice Ristock and Norma Timbang views expressed by newsletter contributors do not exploring best practice in responding to violence in LGBTQ relationships. necessarily reflect those of the EVA BC Board and/or staff. Submit your ideas, articles and photos for Also timely is the research to identify factors that may be contributing to future newsletters to [email protected]. declines in spousal homicide rates in Canada. In their article, Myrna Dawson’s team looks at the documentation of trends and uses Statistics Canada data to identify specific factors that may be associated with the declines. We hope this collection of research and women’s voices will open more doors EVA BC core services are supported by and provide insights and information that will prove to be valuable for everyone the Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor working to end violence against women and children. General and the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority. With respect, Charitable # 13926 5821 RR0001 Tracy Porteous PAGE 2 EVA BC NVCAW SPECIAL EDITION/SPRING 2011 WOMAN-ABUSE IN A GLOBALIZING WORLD: ABANDONMENT OF ASIAN INDIAN WOMEN SHAMITA DAS DASGUPTA1, COFOUNDER, MANAVI 2 Manifestations of intimate violence against women are In recent years, the desertion of Asian Indian wives by their constantly being shaped and reshaped by the socio-political NRI (non-resident Indian) husbands has taken on epidemic forces in a community and the larger society within which it proportions. The pattern of NRI wife abandonment falls into nests. With the advancement of globalization in the last three types: (1) a woman on dependent visa who is residing decade, new features and tactics of woman-abuse have with her husband in a foreign country suddenly finds her begun to emerge. While such abuse is more prevalent in husband has disappeared leaving her in the lurch; (2) a communities that are witnessing increasing migration of woman who has been residing abroad with her husband is labor, a mark of globalization, mainstream practitioners, either deceptively and/or coercively taken back to India and policy-makers, and advocates in North America are still left there without her passport, visa, and money; thus, with- oblivious to them. South Asian Women’s Organizations in out any options of rejoining her husband; and (3) a woman the U.S. (SAWOs) have termed these emerging issues who is already married before her husband migrates to a foreign ‘transnational’.3 I take ‘transnational’ to indicate location that country is never sent sponsorship for a visa to join him. extends beyond the borders of a unitary country and encom- Alternatively, a man who is already living abroad may return passes psychological, legal, emotional, cultural, and to India to marry and then leave with promises to send for economic areas spanning different nations. In this essay, I his bride. However, the visa sponsorship papers never will focus only on the Asian Indian immigrant community arrive. Since a large number of such marriages take place and underscore only one type of woman-abuse and its hurriedly, mostly when men come back to India for a visit, corollary issues: abandonment or desertion of wives.4 the women have been popularly labeled “holiday brides.” The essay concentrates on immigrants from India to North SAWOs in the U.S., define abandonment as an individual left America. While there are many Asian Indian residents in without resources by another on whom s/he is dependent
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