Join visiting fellow Dr Ana Borges Jelinic from Griffith University for her presentation Time, waiting and victimization in partner migration and family violence in Australia.

Abstract:

This presentation discusses the experience of prolonged temporariness of sponsored women in Australia that often have added barriers to permanency in the country, even though this is a priority category for processing in other migrant-seeking countries. ‘Sponsored women’ are defined here as migrant women who were sponsored by their partners in a partner visa application and who separated due to domestic and family violence (DFV). Twenty sponsored women in different stages of the immigration process, were interviewed twice, with the second interview 9-12 months after the first one. The data was analysed using the Listening Guide, analytical tool based on Carol Gilligan’s work. On the second interview sponsored women focused their attention on their experiences with the department of immigration, now known as Home Affairs, with special concern for the prolonged waiting in their visa processes. The waiting and prolonged temporariness shape women’s experiences of migration and relationship with the country, and in the case of this cohort, their experience of safety, mental health, and wellbeing. The discussion focuses on the interaction of migration law, mental health, and gender-based violence, but the presenter is happy to discuss these issues separately in the context of other research projects that are developed at the Disrupting Violence Beacon at the moment.

Bio:

Dr Ana Borges Jelinic is a Brazilian - Australian research-practitioner working mainly in migration and violence against women. She graduated in Psychology with Honours at PUC-SP, Brazil. She holds post-graduation qualifications from Griffith University and the University of Queensland (UQ), including her PhD awarded in 2020. She received the Andrew Little Award (2020) for teaching excellence. She is currently a Research fellow with the Disrupting Violence Beacon at Griffith University.