Conference Presentations by Ana Borges Jelinic
This Thesis investigates the experiences of migrant women originally sponsored by their partners ... more This Thesis investigates the experiences of migrant women originally sponsored by their partners to reside in Australia, who later separated due to domestic violence ('sponsored women'). Sponsored women are required to prove to the Department of Immigration they experienced domestic violence while in a genuine relationship in order to acquire permanent residency in Australia. Women's difficulties in navigating the immigration system and the system's difficulties in understanding migrant women (particularly, sponsored women) are not new. From early 20 th century there are reports of attempts to limit migrant women's arrival. Migrant women have been depicted as too vulnerable or manipulative and as trying to take advantage of the migration system. These stereotypes have often appeared in media and official debates about migration law. Similar debates and migration laws have developed in other former British colonies and the UK and the Thesis explores how these other countries' legal systems address the issues faced by sponsored women; alongside reflections on Australia's laws. The Thesis aims to identify and consider the ongoing issues for sponsored women who have experienced domestic violence in Australia and whether legal reform in Australia may be appropriate. Interviews were undertaken with twenty sponsored women who have engaged with the Department of Immigration in the context of domestic violence. The twenty women participated in two interviews each, nine months to one year apart. The Thesis utilised the feminist analytical tool Listening Guide developed by Carol Gilligan to analyse the interviews. Women were asked questions regarding their relationship and experience of violence, their ongoing immigration process and their mental health. This Thesis aims to understand the women's engagement with the Department of Immigration while pursuing permanent residency in Australia and how the combination of this visa process and DV impacted on women's mental health and wellbeing throughout the study period. The results point to a connection between the changes in women's mental health and their visa status. Sponsored women's mental health tended to improve with time, however, it worsened when visas were refused and improved when visas were granted. The issues with the immigration process that sponsored women highlighted were the difficulty to prove the
Over the last 30 years while capital globalization exacerbated social issues, social justice theo... more Over the last 30 years while capital globalization exacerbated social issues, social justice theories and movements, such as multiculturalism and feminism, struggled to build a common agenda of demands. It was due to a combination of factors, including a post-modern emphasis on “difference” and feminist believes (sometimes misguided), that certain cultural practices are harmful to women and must be eliminated. Attempts to combine the agendas have often failed the women and girls
they are intended to support. In Australia since the 1970s, gender equality and multiculturalism are governmental aims present in policies, particularly in education, but with no combined
initiatives and considerable limitations. The young girls from migrant, Non English Speaking Backgrounds (NESB), who are affected by these policies have very little input in their development; Additionally, there is still much unknown about these girls’ experiences studying in Australia. Here I present the first findings from my on going Masters research, utilising
in-depth interviews in an attempt to understand the schooling experience of NESB girls, negotiating ethnicity, culture and gender to build a more empowered reality at school and in Australia. As a migrant, feminist researcher, I utilise transnational feminist theories and the Voice-centred relational analysis method to maintain gender and culture visible while keeping the girls’ voices central in the process. The result is a tale of unimaginable friendships and circumstances combined with highly valued
life possibilities, highlighting the educational system’s gaps and resources and the girls’ resilience.
Papers by Ana Borges Jelinic
‘In the middle … waiting for a future’: Time and waiting in partner visa migration and family violence in Australia
Transitions, Apr 6, 2024
Holding Dissonance, While Disrupting Narratives
Springer eBooks, 2023
Reflections on prevention policies for gender based violence against women and girls: Debates in Brazil and Australia
Ministério Público do Distrito Federal e Territórios, Jan 6, 2021
This collection is the result of an initiative of several researchers who are part of a collabora... more This collection is the result of an initiative of several researchers who are part of a collaborative research network between Brazil and Australia in the area of gender-based violence. This publication is supported by the following institutions: United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) – Brazil Country Office Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Federal District of Brazil – MPDFT School of the Union’s Public Prosecutor Office in Brazil – ESMPU UniCEUB - Law School, Research Group on Criminal Policy Monash University – Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre Queensland University of Technology – Centre for Justice Australian Embassy in Brazil This collection consolidates the results achieved by the exchange project, and systematises the key discussions and lessons learnt from Brazilian and Australian experts and practitioners dedicated to preventing gender-based violence on a daily basis. We hope this initiative fosters a collaborative research network, engaging researchers, practitioners and institutions from both countries, and creates an opportunity to further develop innovative public policies to prevent domestic and gender-based violence. The articles selected cover a wide range of topics, organized in five sessions. The first section is dedicated to the debate about economic, political and legal frameworks design and implemention of gender-based violence prevention policies. Understanding the organizational culture of each countries’ institutions and the basis upon which the debates have been built is essential to assure the success of any new policy or program. 18 REFLECTIONS ON PREVENTION POLICIES FOR GENDER BASED VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS: DEBATES IN BRAZIL AND AUSTRALIA The second section brings in-depth discussion in relation to prevention policies implemented both in Brazil and in Australia. It is organized by thematic areas and reflects the categorisation of policies, as primary, secondary and tertiary prevention policies. The third section is dedicated to exploring intersectionalities of gender and family violence prevention policies, and especially how to nuance its implementation to support racialised and marginalised groups of women. This subject is central to decision-makers who need to adapt a policy to target specific locations or community groups. The fourth section reflects a growing concern related to virtual violence and the use of technology in gender-based violence. Though requiring further research, the experts contributing to this collection decided to highlight this new form of gender-based violence. The final section analyses best practice gender and family violence prevention policies and programs, which can serve as inspiration for practitioners and decision-makers in their aim of and everyday activities preventing gender-based violence. This document is produced in two identical versions, in Portuguese and English, in order to maximize the exchange of ideas between Brazil and Australia and, hopefully, inspire positive experiences in other countries as well. We hope that this collection of articles may serve to enrich the debate on gender-based violence, enhance practices adopted in Brazil and in Australia, and further strenghten laces of cooperation in academic and technical fields. SECTION 1 - Frameworks to Approach Gender Based Violence Against Women and Girls Prevention Policies 1.1 – The Federative Pact and Prevention Policies to Face Violence Against Women: a compared approach between Brazil and Australia Ana Paula Antunes Martins, Cristina Elsner de Faria, Henrique Marques Ribeiro and Renato Saeger Magalhães Costa 1.2 - Policy Development/Co-ordination in a Federal Context: Australian Perspective Heather Nancarrow 1.3 - Measuring Economic Costs of Violence Against Women Heather Nancarrow 1.4 - Why Economists should Study Domestic Violence? José Raimundo Carvalho and Victor Hugo de Oliveira 1.5 - Brazilian and Australian Frameworks for Preventing and Responding to Family Violence, Particularly Intimate Partner Violence and Femicide Jude McCulloch, Jasmine McGowan and JaneMaree Maher 1.6 - Talking about Prevention in Brazil and Australia: Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Approaches Wania Pasinato and Thiago Pierobom de Ávila SECTION 2 – Prevention Policies: Thematic Areas 2.1 - Education Gisella Lopes Gomes Pinto Ferreira 2.2 - Social Assistance and Violence Against Women in Brazil Fabrícia da Hora Pereira and Mariana Fernandes Távora 2.3 - Public Shelter Policies for Brazilian Women Liz Elainne de Silvério e Oliveira Mendes 2.4 - Health Policies and Violence Against Women in Brazil: Normative Framework for Prevention and Challenges Tais Cerqueira Silva and Mariana Fernandes Távora 2.5 - Women’s Police Stations: Unique Innovations from the Global South Kerry Carrington 2.6 - Specialised Domestic Violence Courts: The Australian Perspective Heather Douglas and Sophie Blatcher 2.7 - Programs for Perpetrators of…
Practitioner—researchers, ethical reflexivity, and the need to negotiate ethics on multiple institutional levels
Routledge eBooks, Feb 13, 2023
Migrant Girls in Australian Schools: Voicing Their Mathematics Learning Experiences
Academia Letters, 2022
International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2021
Ana Borges Jelinic reviews Soraia da Rosa Mendes (2020) Processo Penal Feminista (Feminist Crimin... more Ana Borges Jelinic reviews Soraia da Rosa Mendes (2020) Processo Penal Feminista (Feminist Criminal Law Procedures) The Portuguese version is also included
International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2021
This article considers the voices of migrant women engaging with Home Affairs to guarantee perman... more This article considers the voices of migrant women engaging with Home Affairs to guarantee permanent residency (PR) in Australia after experiencing domestic violence. Data collected from longitudinal interviews with 20 participants were considered, with two participants’ stories analysed in detail. The research indicates how the legal immigration system is set up in a way that does not listen to women and disadvantages them. Particular issues pointed out include extended timelines, lack of concern for cultural differences and inconsistencies in the process, and how they affect women undermining the goal of the law, which is to protect migrants from sponsors’ violence.
Academia Letters, 2022
In Australia, since the 1970s, policies regarding gender equality and multiculturalism had import... more In Australia, since the 1970s, policies regarding gender equality and multiculturalism had important but limited impact on education. This paper focuses on the schooling experience of girls from Non-English-Speaking Backgrounds (NESB) in different school years, particularly when learning Mathematics. The study identified how the girls relied on peers or previous experiences to navigate the learning space with little school support, despite national and state policies. This research also indicated the importance of considering the girls standpoint and the intersection of gender and multiculturalism when designing and implementing policies, (Reitman 2005, Fraser 2010) explained however that women in minority cultural groups require the accomplishment of fundamental points in both the feminist and multicultural agendas and the consideration for the specific intersection of these agendas in order to achieve social justice. This qualitative study employed Carol Gilligan's Listening Guide (LG), the application of her feminist theory of women's voices in research (Doucet and Mauthner 2008, Brown and Gilligan 1993). In the LG, semi-structured interviews are recorded, transcribed and simultaneously listened to and read in four steps that give the basis to the data analysis (Doucet and Mauthner 2008). Semi-structured interviews were conducted with the participant girls (Patti, Idina, Bernadette, Sutton and Marin) and 10 with informants (the girls' parents, siblings and a childcare worker). Informants were interviewed to enrich the participants' stories. The interviews were between one and two hours long in the participants' homes. The interviews sought to listen to their voices to elicit an understanding of the girls' experiences of negotiating gender and multiculturalism at school, what their schools had made available and the difficulties in navigating their intersecting realities. The girls' schools' websites were
International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2021
This article considers the voices of migrant women engaging with Home Affairs to guarantee perman... more This article considers the voices of migrant women engaging with Home Affairs to guarantee permanent residency (PR) in Australia after experiencing domestic violence. Data collected from longitudinal interviews with 20 participants were considered, with two participants' stories analysed in detail. The research indicates how the legal immigration system is set up in a way that does not listen to women and disadvantages them. Particular issues pointed out include extended timelines, lack of concern for cultural differences and inconsistencies in the process, and how they affect women undermining the goal of the law, which is to protect migrants from sponsors' violence.
Migration and domestic violence: women’s experiences of proving domestic violence as a requirement for permanent residency in Australia
I loved him and he scared me: Migrant women, partner visas and domestic violence
Emotion, Space and Society
Book Reviews by Ana Borges Jelinic
International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2021
Criminologia e estudos de gênero são campos de estudo emergentes no Brasil que praticamente não e... more Criminologia e estudos de gênero são campos de estudo emergentes no Brasil que praticamente não existiam 15 anos atrás. Desde 2014, com o lançamento do livro Criminologia feminista: novos paradigmas, advogada e acadêmica Soraia Mendes tornou-se uma grande referência no Brasil em criminologia feminista, e agora, ela expande sua análise para o espaço do processo penal com Processo Penal Feminista. O livro é altamente recomendado para pessoas interessadas em novos desenvolvimentos legais e acadêmicos no Brasil, e também para aqueles lidando com o processo penal não só no Brasil (apesar do livro ser publicado em português) sendo eles profissionais, vítimas/ sobreviventes ou apoiadores/ ativistas buscando um sistema legal que possa ter espaço para mulheres, feminismo e dimensões diversas de conhecimento.
International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2021
Criminology and gender studies are emerging fields in Brazil that barely existed 15 years ago. Si... more Criminology and gender studies are emerging fields in Brazil that barely existed 15 years ago. Since the 2014 release of her book Criminologia feminista: novos paradigmas (Feminist Criminology: New Paradigms), Brazilian feminist and criminologist Soraia Mendes has become a leading voice in the criminal sciences in Brazil and now expands her thoughts to the space of criminal law procedures with Feminist Criminal Law Procedures (Processo Penal Feminista).
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Conference Presentations by Ana Borges Jelinic
they are intended to support. In Australia since the 1970s, gender equality and multiculturalism are governmental aims present in policies, particularly in education, but with no combined
initiatives and considerable limitations. The young girls from migrant, Non English Speaking Backgrounds (NESB), who are affected by these policies have very little input in their development; Additionally, there is still much unknown about these girls’ experiences studying in Australia. Here I present the first findings from my on going Masters research, utilising
in-depth interviews in an attempt to understand the schooling experience of NESB girls, negotiating ethnicity, culture and gender to build a more empowered reality at school and in Australia. As a migrant, feminist researcher, I utilise transnational feminist theories and the Voice-centred relational analysis method to maintain gender and culture visible while keeping the girls’ voices central in the process. The result is a tale of unimaginable friendships and circumstances combined with highly valued
life possibilities, highlighting the educational system’s gaps and resources and the girls’ resilience.
Papers by Ana Borges Jelinic
Book Reviews by Ana Borges Jelinic