ABSTRACT
Media reports and declarations made by some women's associations tend to suggest that in some areas of France social deprivation and social exclusion combines with gender and ethnicity to increase the risk of interpersonal violence. A principal question we must ask is whether such immigrant women consider themselves victims of violence and if they do, whether they report the violence endured. Before analysing intimate partner violence reported by immigrant women or women of the second generation, the chapter summarises the general results of the Enveff survey. It chapter presents first of all the overall results by context before examining in more detail intimate partner violence experienced by women in France. The chapter investigates women born in France whose parents were born in North Africa. These women constitute the largest group of 'second generation' with immigrant parents in France and numbers in the survey allowed analysis of their experience of violence.
