Battered women, their children, and international law : the unintended consequences of the Hague Child Abduction Convention /
"Ending a bad personal relationship is extremely complicated when the relationship is transnational. Women whose partners are abusive often turn to family members for assistance. When this means leaving one nation for another with one's children, Hague Convention (1980) international treat...
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Northeastern University Press,
2012
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| Series: | Northeastern series on gender, crime, and law.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. Globalization, families, and domestic violence : the Hague Convention in practice
- Emotional terror, physical harm, and women's experiences of domestic violence
- The misinterpretation of domestic violence : recasting survival as child abduction
- The unique situation of Latinas responding to Hague petitions / with Luz Lopez and Gita Mehrotra
- Child exposure to abduction and domestic violence
- Hague decisions and the aftermath
- How attorneys litigate Hague domestic violence cases
- Judicial reasoning in Hague cases involving domestic violence / [Taryn Lindhorst and Jeffrey L. Edleson] with William Vesneski
- Practice and policy implications
- Afterword / Sudha Shetty.
