This unique collection provides social work students and practitioners with critical analysis and practical guidance for working with abused women who are marginalized because of immigrant, refugee, or Aboriginal status. Out of the Shadows presents the work of Canadian academic researchers and frontline workers who demonstrate the increased risk faced by these women when they are victims of domestic violence, due to the racism inherent in our judicial and social systems. Our communities have neither fully faced nor met the challenges presented by this serious problem.
Readers will be provoked to reflect on, and re-evaluate, the theoretical and political framework inherent in our service delivery systems and will be intrigued and delighted by accounts of culturally diverse women's groups and individuals who have transformed themselves from victims to victors.

Josephine Fong, PhD, was a Faculty member at York University, Tyndale University College, and University of Toronto. In addition to her academic appointment, she has ample community experience working as a mental health professional, researcher, emotion management trainer, and quality assurance consultant. Currently, she is a Program Director at Centre for Immigrant and Community Services of Ontario and she continues to advocate for women who are affected by male violence.

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"The book not only details the accounts of immigrant, refugee, and Aboriginal women's experiences of abuse, but highlights how other social locations may impact the women's coping and healing. It provides a richer understanding of intimate partner violence from the perspectives of culturally diverse women and those who assist them."— “Kendra Nixon, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Social Work, University of Manitoba