: Beyond Borders: Comparative Quantitative Research on Partner Violence in the United States and Mexico
Title:      Beyond Borders: Comparative Quantitative Research on Partner Violence in the United States and Mexico
Authors:      Sonia M. Frias and Ronald J. Angel
ISBN-10(13):      ODVN
Publisher:      Violence Against Women Journal, Vol. 18, No.1, January 2012
Publication date:      January 2012
Language:      English
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Description:      We employ two surveys to identify similarities and differences in the risk of abuse among poor urban Mexican-origin women in the United States and Mexico.  While the two surveus reveal basic structural similarity in the predictors of partner violence, the rate of violence among Mexican women is far lower than among either foreign-born or native-born Mexican origin women in the United States.  While these fifferences may reflect reality, we argue that survey data must be interpreted cautiously and with an inderstanding of the cultural, economie, and political context in which the information is collected as well as methodological differences between the surveys.