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Abstract
Eastern European mothers living in Western Europe face discrimination that is both cultural and structural. One of the more significant aspects of this discrimination occurs in the context of domestic violence. A number of studies align with the author’s anecdotal evidence to highlight the persistence of discrimination across the domestic-violence experience spectrum – from police reporting to treatment in domestic violence shelters to veracity of claims in court. This study explores one specific methodological dimension of this discrimination: whether researchers in contemporary European social science treat the issue intersectionally. Intersectionality has proven to be a powerful methodological toolkit for better understanding discrimination against mothers in the United States, but questions linger about its efficacy in other contexts. Specifically, intersectionality as a framework appears to exist in a contested conceptual space with regards to constructs of identity and ethnicity in Europe.
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