Learning About the Law: Immigrant Women, Violence and Rights

Authors

  • Susan McDonald Department of Justice-Canada

Abstract

This paper describes a feminist participatory research project with Spanish-speaking immigrant women who had experienced domestic abuse. The goals of the first phase of the project were to 1) identify the legal education and information needs of these women and 2) determine how best to address these needs with consideration for particular factors which could impede learning including the social location of the women, pedagogy, the role of the legal profession, and the impact of trauma.

The women who participated in the study were able to clearly define their legal information and education needs and describe their informal learning experiences as they dealt with the law. These findings provide an important framework for the development of meaningful responses to the women's legal information and education needs.

Résumé

Cet article décrit un projet de recherche féministe axé sur la participation et mené auprès d'immigrantes hispanophones qui ont été victimes de violence familiale. Les objectifs de la première phase du projet consistaient 1) à établir les besoins de ces femmes sur les plans de la formation et de l'information d'ordre juridique et 2) à déterminer la meilleure façon de satisfaire à ces besoins, tout en tenant compte de facteurs particuliers susceptibles d'entraver l'apprentissage, tels le statut social de ces femmes, la pédagogic, le rôle de la profession juridique et les répercussions dues aux traumatismes.

Les femmes qui ont participé a l'étude ont été en mesure de définir clairement leurs besoins sur les plans de l'information et de la formation d'ordre juridique et de décrire lews expériences d'apprentissage informel au fur et à mesure de lews contacts avec la loi. Ces résultats fournissent un cadre important pour la mise au point d'interventions qui répondent véritablement aux besoins des femmes sur les plans de l'information et de la formation d'ordre juridique.

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Published

2002-11-01

How to Cite

McDonald, S. (2002). Learning About the Law: Immigrant Women, Violence and Rights. Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 16(2), 73–94. Retrieved from https://cjsae.library.dal.ca/cjsae/article/view/1880

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Vol. 16 No. 2 (2002)

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