Coercion, Consent and the Forced Marriage Debate in the UK |
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Authors: | Sundari Anitha Aisha Gill |
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Institution: | (1) School of Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK;(2) School of Social Sciences, Roehampton University, Roehampton Lane, London, SW15 5SL, UK |
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Abstract: | An examination of case law on forced marriage reveals that in addition to physical force, the role of emotional pressure is
now taken into consideration. However, in both legal and policy discourse, the difference between arranged and forced marriage
continues to be framed in binary terms and hinges on the concept of consent: the context in which consent is constructed largely
remains unexplored. By examining the socio-cultural construction of personhood, especially womanhood, and the intersecting
structural inequalities that constrain particular groups of South Asian women in the UK, we argue that consent and coercion
in relation to marriage can be better understood as two ends of a continuum, between which lie degrees of socio-cultural expectation,
control, persuasion, pressure, threat and force. Women who face these constraints exercise their agency in complex and contradictory
ways that are not always recognised by the existing exit-centred state initiatives designed to tackle this problem.
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Keywords: | Agency Arranged marriage Coercion Consent Forced marriage South Asian women |
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