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Abstract: 

The author discusses the title subject in the course of reviewing recent publications, including: “Trapped in Domestic Violence: The Impact of US Immigration Laws on Battered Immigrant Women”, by Tien-Li Loke; “Intimate Partner Violence Strategies: Models for Community Participation”, by Jenny Rivera; “Danger in the Diaspora: Law, Culture and Violence Against Women of African Descent in the United States and South Africa”, by Paula C. Johnson; “Law, Life, and Literature: A Critical Reflection of Life and Literature to Illuminate How Laws of Domestic Violence, Race, and Class Bind Black Women”, by Angela Mae Kupenda; and “A Comparative Survey of the Historic Civil, Common, and American Indian Tribal Law Responses to Domestic Violence”, by Virginia H. Murray.

Keywords: Violence Against Women Act; Immigration Act; Latina Rights Initiative; LRI; Hispanic Women’s Task Force (NJ); Violence Intervention Program (VIP), NY

Affiliations:  1: Associate Editor of DVR.