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Domestic Violence Series

Author: Rodriguez, Rachel
Date Published: 2001


In recent years, domestic violence among migrant farmworker women has begun to receive national attention. From national not-for-profit agencies such as the Family Violence Prevention Fund and NOW's Legal Defense and Education Fund to federal agencies such as the Violence Against Women Office, battered migrant farmworker women's voices are finally being heard. Despite these advances, research on domestic violence among this population continues to progress at a slow pace, and much is still unknown. Recommendations in the area of policy to promote positive change in this area include the establishment of protocols at a national level to address the need for screening, assessment, and referral of battered migrant farmworker women. Domestic violence should be identified as a public health problem with serious physical, emotional, and psychological consequences that are caused by the violence, and should not be melded into the general category of mental health as it is currently defined within the Office of Migrant Health.

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