Discussion Homework 400-500 Within 6Hours

Violence Against Asian Pacific American Women


Cultural Energizer: Gender Sensitization

What we are about to experience is very sensitive but that it is important to have everyone’s full agreement on mindfulness and sensitivity. Remember this is a safe space to be brave and open with each other.  

Cultural Energizer: Cybermedia Tour of Asian Women

On your internet browser’s “incognito mode” (ad blockers disabled) do a google search on each of the 5 largest Asian women ethnic groups in California (Vietnamese/Vietnamese American Women, Chinese/Chinese American Women, Filipino/ Filipino American Women, Indian/Indian American Women, Korean/Korean American Women)

What are the resulting links on the first page? What are the advertisements on the first page? How many are positive? Negative?

Do an image search on each Asian women ethnic group. What are the resulting images on the first page? What are the advertisements on the first page? How many are positive? Negative?

Gender Based Violence Comes in many forms:

Domestic Violence and battery of women. In this case women are tortured via imprisonment in the home, physical and psychological terror. Involuntary slaves in the form of prostitution and pornography Domestic workers are sometimes beaten, raped, and locked up in their employer’s homes Arranged marriages denies women their right to marry by choice which has led some women to resort to suicide or prostitute. Sexual assault on the streets and in the workplace- Rape is a human rights violation even when its performed in the private sector not just as a war crime. Female genocide in the form of female infanticide and malnutrition.


 Mail-Order Brides
 


Top mail-order bride exporting countries: Philippines, Columbia, Ukraine, Russia.

There are 20,000 Filipina mail order brides in Australia. (Gabriela, Statistics and the State of the Philippines, 24 July 1997)

5,000 Filipinas enter the US every year as mail- order brides.

Military/Direct Prostitution There are 400,000 Filipino women in prostitution in 1998, excluding unregistered, seasonal prostitutes, overseas entertainers and victims of external trafficking. One fourth of them are children and each year 3,266 more children are forced into the sex industry. US military presence in the Philippines results in a 200% increase of prostitution in and around the bases. In the Philippines, a recent study showed there are about 75,000 children, who were forced into prostitution due to poverty. Similar cases of prostitution, rape, and murder of local women by U.S. military have also occurred near U.S. military bases in Japan, Okinawa, Korea, Thailand, Taiwan, and throughout the Pacific Islands.

Domestic Violence Domestic violence is the leading cause of injury to women, causing more injuries than muggings, stranger rapes, and car accidents combined (D.G., 1994). Every nine seconds a woman is beaten in the United States. It is abuse that cuts across all racial, gender and economic lines. The invisibility of domestic violence in these communities may be attributed to social taboos of discussing a problem that is considered “private” or should stay within the home. Domestic violence is virtually invisible in the community due to its perception that domestic violence falls under the heading of “private” or “within the family”.

RAPE RAPE is a form of assault involving the non-consensual

use of the sexual organs of another person's body. The assailant can be of either sex, as can their target.

Statistics of Rape 1 in 4 women are a victim of rape or attempted rape 84% of women who rape knew their attacker only 27% of rape cases meet the legal definition (in order for a case)

Video Clip: Tea Consent https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQbei5JGiT8

Different types of domestic violence

Facts: Violence against Asian Pacific American Women

. Asian/Pacific Islander Domestic Violence Resource Project; 2001.

Domestic Violence

• 41 – 61% of Asian women report experiencing physical and/or sexual violence by an intimate partner during their lifetime. This is higher than the rates in a national study reported by Whites (21.3%), African Americans (26.3%), Hispanics of any race (21.2%), people of mixed race (27.0%), and American Indians and Alaskan Natives (30.7%), and Asians and Pacific Islanders (12.8%).

• 81% of women reported experiencing at least one form of intimate partner violence (domination/controlling psychological, physical, and/or sexual abuse) in 2012.

• 28.5% of Asian women report knowing a woman who had experienced abuse by her in-laws. In some Asian families, male and female in-laws exert physical, sexual and psychological abuse.

Facts: Violence against Asian Pacific American Women

. Asian/Pacific Islander Domestic Violence Resource Project; 2001.

Domestic Violence Related Homicide 


• In a six-year period, 160 cases in API families resulted in 226 fatalities, of which 72% were adult homicide victims, 10% were child homicide victims, and 18% were suicide deaths. 


• 68% of victims were intimate partners (current, estranged, or ex- partners), of which 111 were women and 14 were men.

• 83% of homicide perpetrators were men,14% were women, 3% unknown.

• Children were the second largest group of victims, and the parents of wives and girlfriends were the third largest group.

Facts: Violence against Asian Pacific American Women

. Asian/Pacific Islander Domestic Violence Resource Project; 2001.

• Sexual Violence 
 56% of Filipinas and 64% of Indian and Pakistani women had experienced sexual violence by an intimate partner, in a study interviewing 143 women.

• Stalking 
 68% of Filipinas and 50% of Indian and Pakistani women reported being stalked by an intimate partner.

• Trafficking 
 5,200–7,800 Asians and Pacific Islanders comprise the largest group of people trafficked into the U.S., out of an estimated total of 14,500-17,500 individuals trafficked in 2004.

Facts: Violence against Asian Pacific American Women

. Asian/Pacific Islander Domestic Violence Resource Project; 2001.

Children’s Exposure to Family Violence

• 70% of Cambodians, 61% of Chinese, 80% of Koreans, 79% of South Asians, and 72% of Vietnamese men and women reported being hit regularly as children.

• 28% of Cambodians, 18% of Chinese, 30% of Koreans, 8% of South Asians, and 27% of Vietnamese witnessed their fathers regularly hit their mothers.

• In a review of 160 Asian homicide cases, 22 children were killed. Of the 63 non-fatal child victims for whom information was available, 60 were on site when the homicides occurred, survived an attempted homicide, were eye or ear witnesses to a maternal homicide, or discovered the bodies.

• Research shows that children who witness domestic violence show more anxiety, low self esteem, depression, anger and temperament problems than their peers. They are at greater risk for abuse and neglect as children and to become abusers themselves as adults.

Breaking the Silence of Domestic Violence on Asian Pacific American Women

“Leaving an abusive situation is already a tremendous challenge for many survivors,” says Texas attorney Ramey Ko who has worked with many domestic violence survivors, “Financial support, safe stable housing, and child care for themselves and their children already pose significant challenges. When you add language and cultural barriers, immigrant status, and other similar issues into the mix, AAPI (Asian American Pacific Islander) victims can be even more marginalized and face greater barriers to leaving that are too often forgotten or ignored.”

#WhyIStayed #WhyILeft

• On your laptops or smart phones, go on social media (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc.) and search these hashtags. Choose three posts with each of these hashtags that stand out to you and share them with the class.

What can we do, as women AND men, to end violence

against women?

One Billion Rising video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6guRQb9Plkk