Memories of Violence Against Women and Girls across borders: Transformative gender justice through the arts among Brazilian women migrants in London

TY - CHAP

T1 - Memories of Violence Against Women and Girls across borders

T2 - Transformative gender justice through the arts among Brazilian women migrants in London

AU - McIlwaine, Catherine Julia

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2021 selection and editorial matter, Jelke Boesten and Helen Scanlon; individual chapters, the contributors. Copyright: Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

PY - 2021/5

Y1 - 2021/5

N2 - This chapter examines the nature of violence against women among Brazilian migrant women in London and how memories are deeply imbued within their experiences. Violence against women and girls certainly ‘travelled’ across borders but it was reconstituted in new ways in London in workplaces and in the private sphere. The chapter explores gender-based violence among migrants with reference to ideas around memories and how a feminist transformative gender justice approach can be enacted and advanced with a view to improving the lives of women in the short- and longer-terms. Collective memorialisation can be a way of turning individual trauma of gender-based violence into transformation and activism. On discussing their histories of migration, women migrants revealed that gender-based violence was endemic back home in Brazil, where 77 percent of the migrant women reported such experiences, yet more than half suffered it again in London.

AB - This chapter examines the nature of violence against women among Brazilian migrant women in London and how memories are deeply imbued within their experiences. Violence against women and girls certainly ‘travelled’ across borders but it was reconstituted in new ways in London in workplaces and in the private sphere. The chapter explores gender-based violence among migrants with reference to ideas around memories and how a feminist transformative gender justice approach can be enacted and advanced with a view to improving the lives of women in the short- and longer-terms. Collective memorialisation can be a way of turning individual trauma of gender-based violence into transformation and activism. On discussing their histories of migration, women migrants revealed that gender-based violence was endemic back home in Brazil, where 77 percent of the migrant women reported such experiences, yet more than half suffered it again in London.

KW - Memory

KW - Violence against Women and Girls

KW - Verbatim theatre

KW - Transformative gender justice

UR - https://www.routledge.com/Gender-Transitional-Justice-and-Memorial-Arts-Global-Perspectives-on-Commemoration/Boesten-Scanlon/p/book/9781032005072

U2 - 10.4324/9781003174462-15

DO - 10.4324/9781003174462-15

M3 - Chapter

SN - 9780367508579

SP - 211

EP - 229

BT - Gender, Transitional Justice and Memorial Arts

A2 - Boesten, Jelke

A2 - Scanlon, Helen

PB - Routlege

CY - London

ER -