ABSTRACT
Chapter 4 applies the ideas of social control and surveillance to state-level statutes targeting intimate partner violence (IPV) in immigrant and refugee lives. The chapter first overviews how systems of oppression and inequality transform across time. The chapter then briefly discusses intersectionality, as well as intersectional analyses of surveillance and social control in the lives of Black women, other women of color, and poor women. The concepts of surveillance, operationalized in terms of social control (i.e., a transaction of behavioral requirements for receipt of help/support), are applied to the statutes within the current study. A concluding discussion is also provided.
