Seeking Approaches for Domestic Violence

Running head: HELP SEEKING APPROACHES FOR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
HELP SEEKING APPROACHES FOR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
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Conceptual
Exosystemic theory
As quoted by Harms, the multidimensional approach shows that human behaviour can
be perceived in different ways by different people and there exists a connection between an
individual’s biological, psychological and spiritual aspects with the environmental influences
such as culture, relations and structure. This theory helps in understanding the
biopsychosocial aspects of an individual which gives an insight about the problems faced by
the individual. This approach pertains to the experiences of migrant women, facing domestic
violence, along with their ability of risk taking, protectiveness and flexibility. This particular
study executes the multidimensional approach to examine the interconnection between the
factors microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, macrosystem and chronosystem and how does
all this factors create obstacle for a migrant women who is seeking help for experiencing
abuses and domestic violence. The factors microsystem refers to the relationship of women
with her family members, mesosystem is the relationship between different microsystems,
and in this case it shows the isolation of women from the community including family, peer
groups or friends, the exosystem refers to the regulations and policies on the visa and
immigration sometimes also includes gender biasness, macrosystem shows the cultural aspect
and social beliefs affecting a woman living in that society and lastly the chronosystem refers
to the amount of biding one’s time before a woman can apply for a permanent citizenship.
To analyze the human behaviour in respect to seeking help, the connection between
biopsychosocial aspects of migrant women in Australia and the structural, cultural and social
aspects should be understood properly. Understanding the behaviour of the migrant women in
Australia will help the human development team to understand their reasons for not asking
for any help against the domestic and family violence faced by them.

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Intersectional Feminism
Intersectionality defines the process by which several aspects of inequity, such as
gender, race, age and status biasness, crossover and interconnect with the social drawback.
On the contrary, feminism refers to the concept of the abuses faced by women in a men
dominated society and the development and struggles done by women for liberty. Feminism
aims to develop women safety and security by linking their private issues and grievances with
their status and position in the society they live in. Australia gives refuges to migrant women
coming from all over the world. The crossover of different complexion, gender and economic
position of migrant women makes them experience different kinds of abuses and ill-treatment
from the society. Intersectional feminism helps to highlight the different abuses faced by
these migrant women. Focusing on a single abuse will not be enough to have an insight of the
issues faced by the migrant women based on her age, gender, migrant, economic and social
status. The use of intersectional feminism helps to identify the connection between all this
partiality factors social status, gender and complexion and the drawbacks within every
individual.
A cross-sectoral women’s liberty gives a view of the nature of violence experienced
by the women immigrants in Australia due to their social beliefs, culture, status, position,
complexion, emotional stability, gender, religion and physical ability. The research section of
this study executes the cross-sectoral feminism to figure and analyze the various aspects of
the lives of women immigrants such as their sex, complexion, social status and their
capability to state the violence and abuses faced by them and how all this influence their
behaviour for not asking any help. This feminism ideology also highlights that except their
gender other discrimination factors like being an immigrant, their language and their
economic and social status makes them unprotected in the society. Deficiency of a proper