Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2010
Journal
Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law
Volume
11
Issue
2
First Page
571
Last Page
592
Abstract
[panelist] I feel like I have gone on a trip down memory lane. I want to take us back in time to give you an idea of what it looked like for immigrant women, women of color, and underserved communities in 1994, in terms of access to services and assistance for domestic violence and sexual assault. In those days there were very few programs-and we could probably count them on two, maybe four hands nationally-that were working specifically and had expertise working with immigrant victims, non-English-speaking victims, and women of color victims. Those programs were isolated from each other. In 1994 I was working as a family lawyer at a program I helped found-AYUDA, a legal services agency serving the immigrant community in Washington, D.C. Janet Calvo was working with battered immigrants at CUNY Law School in New York, and in San Francisco the group of attorneys working will immigrant victims included Bill Tamayo at the Asian Law Caucus and Deeana Jang at the San Francisco Neighborhood Legal Assistance Foundation. Leni Matin and Debbie Lee at the Family Violence Prevention Fund teamed up with Martha Davis at Legal Momentum to bring us all together for a meeting to plan the first national conference on immigrant and refugee women's rights that was held in Berkeley, California in 1991. This conference was the first effort nationally to bring together those of us working with immigrant populations and refugee populations.
Recommended Citation
Leslye Orloff, Claudia Bayliff, Lisalyn Jacobs, Lynn H. Schafran & Juley Fulcher,
Billions (Yes, with a B) for Prevention, Victim Services, Law Enforcement, Underserved Populations and the Courts, and Looking ahead to VAWA IV,
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Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law
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(2010).
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