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Centring migrant community voices in forced marriage prevention social policy: A proposed reframing

Centring migrant community voices in forced marriage prevention social policy: A proposed reframing In this article, we examine how young adult Muslim Australian women from immigrant families are navigating familial pressures around marriage, and what this can teach the forced marriage prevention sector about the importance of privileging community voices in its educational approach. Through an ethnographic approach that focuses on two women's recent experiences with social and cultural expectations around marriage, we argue that their strategies serve the prevention sector in the following ways: (1) they put into question the perpetrator–victim binary and official government warning signs, which suggest that coercive practices around marriage inherently render the family as a site of violence, and young adults as lacking the power to navigate these familial relationships; and (2) they reveal that young adult immigrant women see pressures around marriage through the prisms of collective care, sociality and the potential transformation and strengthening of familial bonds despite past experiences of social pressure. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian Journal of Social Issues Wiley

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Copyright © 2021 Australian Social Policy Association
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1839-4655
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Abstract

In this article, we examine how young adult Muslim Australian women from immigrant families are navigating familial pressures around marriage, and what this can teach the forced marriage prevention sector about the importance of privileging community voices in its educational approach. Through an ethnographic approach that focuses on two women's recent experiences with social and cultural expectations around marriage, we argue that their strategies serve the prevention sector in the following ways: (1) they put into question the perpetrator–victim binary and official government warning signs, which suggest that coercive practices around marriage inherently render the family as a site of violence, and young adults as lacking the power to navigate these familial relationships; and (2) they reveal that young adult immigrant women see pressures around marriage through the prisms of collective care, sociality and the potential transformation and strengthening of familial bonds despite past experiences of social pressure.

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Australian Journal of Social Issues – Wiley

Published: Sep 1, 2021

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