Bringing Intersectionality Home: Delivering Contextualised Justice in response to Gender-Based Violence in Hong Kong

Abstract

The effectiveness of protective measures to combat violence against women is highly dependent on an accurate understanding of the internal (cultural) and external (situational context) factors which motivate or deter help-seeking and justice-based solutions for victims of violence. Research findings of the behaviours of ethnic minority and immigrant victims of domestic violence suggest that the failure to account for user-based capacities in mapping appropriate responses creates a critical justice gap. The Chapter concludes that an intersections analysis which produces victim typologies must inform law and policy at each stage to deliver substantive equal protection and combat gender-based violence all victims.