Forced marriage in Australia : definately not the 'usual suspects' / Carolyn M. Evans.

Bristol : E-International Relations, 2015.

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Human rights Australia.

Forced marriage.

Australia stands in the ranks with other western countries that are belatedly attempting to grapple with forced marriage, an ill-defined – and usually worse understood – concept that crosses national jurisdictions and leaves women and girls lost within and between legal systems. Commonly cast as a ‘problem with migrants', or a characteristic of particular religions, forced marriage actually has a wide variety of forms and proves to be a multi-faceted and multi-layered dilemma involving law, politics and international relations. Drawing on observation of case management practice in Australia and related action research, this article highlights a problem shared by most countries and by no means limited to the ‘usual suspects'. - Extract from report.

Includes bibliographical references.

2053-8626

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