Vives-Cases, Et Al. (2010) Reviewed Ipv Among Immigrant

Vives-Cases, et al. (2010) reviewed IPV among immigrant and non-immigrant women and they reported high cases of IPV in older, divorced, low educated people, poor social support immigrant women compared to retired, students or unemployed. IPV reported 23.1% of immigrant compared to 14.5% of non-immigrant. Kulwicki, et al. (2010) describes the barriers used by Arab Immigrant women for domestic violence indicated that 25% of women beaten by their spouses, 18.4% were kicked by them, 7% of women reported their husband used a gun or knife and 20% were sexually abused. . Women felt 41.9 % of nervousness, 35.4% of fatigue and 56.6% of stress, depression and emotional disorders that make them unable to concentrate on their daily activities. Arab†¦show more content†¦Edmond, (2015) writes about the type of help needed (formal and informal) for IPV for Mexican Immigrant women, the aim of study was to collect the data through interviews and to identify the abusive behavior, type of help used by abused immigrants and cultural and social barrier. Most of the time, participants were confused about what type of help they need, they just felt insecure were confuse about what was occurring to them because of lack of knowledge about local social-service system and how to approach it. Kyriakaki s, (2014) also recorded immigrant are seeking first help from sister and mother , 57% immigrants does not have access to public social security services in that only 32% having access to the national social security system and 6% having state social security system. Kim E et al. (2015) targeted Asian Indian Women, they counted IPV as a private problem that has to be solved within family rather than make it as a disrespectful and shameful in the community. Lack of awareness and low socioeconomic status also forcing them to seek help from informal sources and they found negative help-seeking attitude towards formal sources because of fear from social/public stigma and self-sigma. Conclusion As research established the relationship between immigrant women and domestic violence mainly Intimate Partner Violence (IPV),