• Facebook
  • Twitter
  • RSS
  • Subscribe To Our Listserv
  • News and Events
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Get Help
  • Donate
Asian Pacific Institute on Gender Based Violence Website
  • About Gender-Based Violence
    • Statistics on Violence Against API Women
    • Asian and Pacific Islander Survivors
    • Our Analysis
      • Culture & Gender-Based Violence
      • Gender Democracy Vs. Gender Inequality
      • Lifetime Spiral of Gender Violence
      • Patriarchy & Power
    • Types of Gender-Based Violence
      • Abusive International Marriage
      • Domestic Violence
      • Elder Abuse
      • Forced Marriage
      • HIV and Intimate Partner Violence
      • Homicide and Domestic Violence
      • LGBTQ Intimate Partner Violence
      • Sexual Violence
      • Trafficking
  • Culturally Specific Advocacy
    • A-Z Advocacy Model
      • Find An Agency
    • Immigration Policies & Remedies Affecting Survivors
    • Language Access, Interpretation, and Translation
    • Culturally-Specific Community & Systems Engagement
      • Advocacy for Muslim Women
      • Advocacy for Pacific Islanders
      • Community Engagement
      • Engaging Men
      • Innovative Strategies
      • Lifecourse Violence and Help-Seeking
      • Transforming Gender Roles
    • Child Custody in Domestic Violence Cases
  • Resource Library
Select Page

FAQs: Immigration Enforcement and Victim Services Programs, 2017

Immigration

Technical Assistance Brief / Tipsheet
In light of heightened fear within immigrant communities, the following FAQs are intended to address confidentiality and due process protections afforded to victim advocacy organizations and victims themselves. A recent report, 2017 Advocate and Legal Service Survey...

Advisory: Are Victim Services Programs Liable for Criminal “Harboring” When they Work with Immigrant Survivors of Crime? 2017

Immigration

Technical Assistance Brief / Tipsheet
Community-based crime victim advocacy programs that provide services to undocumented immigrant survivors of crimes can minimize risks to their program, funding, employees, and clients by adopting and following policies that take the laws on harboring undocumented...

Advisory Revised Oct 2018: How Will ‘Public Charge’ Proposed Policy Changes Impact Immigrant Survivors of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault?

Culturally-Specific Advocacy, Featured, Immigration, New

Advisory
The Administration has issued a proposed regulation that expands the definition of “public charge” and puts immigrant families, including children, at risk if they use public programs to escape and recover from abuse and meet basic needs like food, housing, and health...

How To Make Sure Immigrant Women Aren’t Left Out of Me Too

Culturally-Specific Advocacy, Featured, Gender-Based Violence, Immigration, Sexual Violence

Article
Related Resources FAQs: Immigration Enforcement and Victim Services Programs, 2017 Technical Assistance Brief / TipsheetThese FAQs address common questions about responding to immigration enforcement activities at victim services programs. Advisory: Are Victim...

Domestic Violence Awareness Must Be Inclusive of Immigrant Survivors, 2017

Featured, Immigration

Article
We must strengthen our resolve to make sure that our community response to domestic violence is truly relevant to all survivors. Related Resources FAQs: Immigration Enforcement and Victim Services Programs, 2017 Technical Assistance Brief / TipsheetThese FAQs address...

Immigration Law Basics for Domestic Violence Victim Advocates, 2017

Culturally-Specific Advocacy, Immigration

Factsheet
This factsheet provides basic information on various immigration remedies available to victims of domestic violence and/or certain other crimes, including sexual abuse, child abuse or human trafficking. This factsheet covers: A general overview of American legal...

The Effects of Increased Entanglement on Immigrant Survivors

Immigration

Factsheet
Recent policy proposals call for increased entanglement between immigration enforcement and state and local police, which undermines existing protections for domestic violence and sexual assault survivors. This will reduce the likelihood of immigrant victims or...

Advocate and Legal Service Survey Regarding Immigrant Survivors, 2017

Immigration

Factsheet / Infographic
Congress created important protections for immigrant survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking in the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) and Trafficking Victims Prevention Act (TVPA) in the express recognition that abusers often exploit a...

Immigration 101: A Webinar for Domestic Violence Victim Advocates

Immigration

Webinar
This webinar is a primer on immigration laws and regulations for advocates serving Asian survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault. It provides a basic introduction to U.S. immigration law and the paths to citizenship, the remedies available to immigrant...

Protecting Assets and Child Custody in the Face of Deportation, 2017

Immigration

Manual
This one-of-a-kind manual from Appleseed Network is designed for immigrants and those who work with them; the host of attorneys, nurses, social workers, religious workers who are stepping up in challenging times. Appleseed’s manual will help families develop plans in...
« Older Entries

Search Resource Library

Resource Categories

A-Z Advocacy Model Abusive International Marriage Advocacy for Muslim Women Asian Pacific Islander Demographics and Census Data Asians and Pacific Islanders Child Custody in Domestic Violence Cases Community Organizing Culturally-Specific Advocacy Culturally-Specific Community & Systems Engagement Culture & Gender-Based Violence Directories Domestic Violence Elder Abuse Engaging Men Featured Forced Marriage Gender-Based Violence Gender-Based Violence Worldwide Gender Democracy Vs. Gender Inequality HIV and Domestic Violence Homicide Immigration Innovative Strategies Language Access, Interpretation, and Translation LGBTQ Intimate Partner Violence Lifecourse Violence and Help Seeking Lifetime Spiral of Gender Violence Limited English Proficient (LEP) Survivors New News and Events Our Analysis Pacific Islanders Patriarchy & Power Refugee Survivors Research and Data Sexual Violence Survivor Centered Advocacy Trafficking Transforming Gender Roles Trauma-Informed Care Uncategorized Updated

Resource Tags

Abuse by In-Laws Asylees Attitudes towards Abuse Bhutanese Bibliography Blanketed by Blame Cambodians Child Custody Child Marriage Children Exposed to Violence Child Welfare Chinese DMST/CSEC Ethnic-Specific Factsheets Evidence-Informed Practice Filipino Filipinos Gender Democracy Hawai'i Health related Help-Seeking Historical Trauma Hmong Indian Interpretation Islamic Marriage Contracts Japanese Korean Language Access Tipsheets Legal Lifecourse Violence Male Victims Marriage & Divorce Native Hawaiians Nepalese Pacific Islanders Pakistani Program Design South Asian Stalking T-Visa U-Visa VAWA Victim-Blaming Vietnamese

Resource Types

Advisory Article Directory Factsheet Film Infographic Manual Organization Other Report Research Study Resource Guide Resource List Safety Card Talk Technical Assistance Brief Tipsheet Tool Training Curriculum Training Material Webinar

Recent Resources

  • Empowerment is Healing: 6th Annual Pacific Islander Violence Prevention Conference
  • In Memoriam Jeff Adachi
  • Defining an Effective Response to DVSA in American Samoa
  • February Highlights
  • Immigrant Survivors Still Fear to Seek Help: Article in California Health Report

ABOUT GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE

  • Statistics on Violence against API Women
  • Types of Gender-Based Violence
  • Our Analysis
  • Asian and Pacific Islander Survivors

Culturally-Specific Advocacy

  • A-Z Advocacy Model
  • Immigration Policies and Remedies Affecting Survivors
  • Language Access, Interpretation, and Translation
  • Culturally-Specific Community & Systems Engagement

RESOURCE LIBRARY

BROWSE BY CATEGORY
  • Gender-Based Violence
  • Asians and Pacific Islanders
  • Research and Data
  • Directories
  • Culturally-Specific Advocacy
  • Immigration
  • Language Access, Interpretation, and Translation
BROWSE BY TYPE
  • Articles
  • Directories
  • Factsheets
  • Infographics
  • Reports
  • Research Study
  • Resource Guides
  • Technical Assistance Briefs
  • Tipsheets
  • Tools
  • Training Curricula
  • Training Materials
  • Webinars

Subscribe to Email Updates

Receive the latest news and updates from API-GBV.

Subscribe

  • Homepage
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Get Help
  • Donate
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • RSS

Persons depicted are models and are used for illustrative purposes only.

Copyright 2010-2017 Asian Pacific Institute on Gender-Based Violence.All Rights Reserved. Web design & development by Dayspring Technologies, Inc.