WOMEN AND FORCED MARRIAGE IN SCOTLAND

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgments p.4 Introduction p.5 What is Forced Marriage? p.5 Background to the Project p. 6 Aims and Objectives p.6 Planning, Design and Implementation p.6 Saheliya’s understanding of Forced Marriage p.7 Defining areas of focus: p.8 Work with Black and Minority Ethnic Women p.8 Why Scotland? p.9 Why Forced Marriage? p.10 Why Women’s Organizations? p.11 Type of Services provided p.11 Length of Services provided p.12 Inter-agency work and the availability of information p.12 Current Statistics: the Incidence of Forced Marriage in Scotland p.13 Further Particulars of Saheliya Clients p.14 Statistics from our partner organizations p.15 The Dynamics of Forced Marriage p.18 Immigration and Dislocation p.20 ‘Culture’ and ‘Honour’ p.21 The net women slip through p.23 Why does Forced Marriage continue to happen? p.27 The nature of Force p.27 2
Access to Justice: p.32 I. Barriers internal to the woman p.32 II. Barriers inherent in the community p.35 III. External/ Mainstream Obstacles to Justice p.38 Regulation, Dialogue and Exit p.41 The Impact of Forced Marriage p.44 Limitations of this research p.47 Implementations of this research and recommendations for further work p.48 Creation of the leaflet resource p.49 References p.50 Appendix I p.51 Appendix II p.60 3
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