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1. 1. The protection of migrant women subjected to domestic violence under the framework of the Council of Europe. A feminist approach

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

   Author : Victoria Prada Pérez; [2012]
   Keywords : Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : Migrant women facing domestic violence in the Council of Europe have been traditionally characterised, except in some national countries, as not having any legal possibility to leave the situation with proper resources, or being able to guarantee their stay in the country they are living. Since the approval of the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence, on May 2011, there is an option for those migrant women with dependent residence status to escape from the spiral of violence and get an independent residence status. READ MORE