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21 – 55% of Asian women in the U.S. report experiencing intimate physical and/or sexual violence during their lifetime, based on a compilation of disagregated samples of Asian ethnicities in local communities.
Facts & Stats Report (2015)
18% of Asian or Pacific Islander women reported experiencing rape, physical violence, and/or stalking by an intimate partner in their lifetime in a national survey, as compared to 48% of American Indians or Alaska Native women, 45% of Black women, 34% of Hispanic women, and 37% of White women.
CDC: 2010-2012 National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (2017)
Graphic from AAPIdata.com. Data from Leung C & Cheung C. 2008. A prevalence study on partner abuse in six Asian American ethnic groups in the USA. International Social Work. 51(5): 635 – 649.
Domestic Violence-Related Homicide
In a six-year period, 160 cases in Asian families resulted in 226 fatalities, of which 72% were adult homicide victims, 10% were child homicide victims, and 18% were suicide deaths.
68% of victims were intimate partners (current, estranged, or ex-partners), of which 111 were women and 14 were men.
83% of homicide perpetrators were men, 14% were women, 3% unknown.
Children were the second largest group of victims, and the parents of wives and girlfriends were the third largest group.
Shattered Lives (2010)
Graphic from AAPIdata.com. Data from Yoshioka MR, DiNoia J, & Ullah K. 2001. Attitudes toward marital violence: An examination of four Asian communities. Violence Against Women. 7(8): 900 – 926.
Of API women, 23% experienced some form of contact sexual violence, 10% experienced completed or attempted rape, and 21% had non-contact unwanted sexual experiences during their lifetime.
CDC: 2010-2012 NISVS Summary Report (2017)
56% of Filipinas and 64% of Indian and Pakistani women had experienced sexual violence by an intimate in a study of 143 domestic violence survivors.
Intimate Partner Violence and Help-Seeking (2011)
8% of API women experienced stalking in their lifetime
68% of Filipinas and 50% of Indian and Pakistani abused women reported being stalked by an intimate partner
Children's Exposure to Family Violence
70% of Cambodians, 61% of Chinese, 80% of Koreans, 79% of South Asians, and 72% of Vietnamese men and women reported being hit regularly as children.
ATASK: Asian Family Violence Report (2000)
28% of Cambodians, 18% of Chinese, 30% of Koreans, 8% of South Asians, and 27% of Vietnamese witnessed their fathers regularly hit their mothers.
In a review of 160 Asian homicide cases, 22 children were killed. Of the 63 non-fatal child victims for whom information was available, 60 were either on site when the homicides occurred, survived an attempted homicide, were eye or ear witnesses to a maternal homicide, or discovered the bodies.
Of the 3,116 trafficking survivors with specified ethnicities who reached out to Polaris operated hotlines in 2016, 23% (715) were Asian.
Polaris Project: 2016 Statistics
Attitudes towards Violence
Of 607 Asian respondents, the top explanations for why family violence happens were that the husband wants power, domination, and control (72 responded this way) and that he is frustrated/has anger (67 responded this way). Overall, family violence is overwhelmingly perceived as the personal problem of the husband.
22% of Cambodians, 18% of Chinese, 29% of Korean, 5% of South Asian, and 9% of Vietnamese men and women said that a woman who is being abused should not tell anyone about the abuse.
Resources on Violence against API Women
Innovations in Survivor-Centered Advocacy, 2019
This report describes the next phase of the Survivor-Centered Advocacy Project, supporting four field research teams to translate their findings into practice aimed at transforming the field.
Survivor-Centered Advocacy in Culturally Specific Communities: A Community-Based Participatory Research Project, 2019
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The Survivor-Centered Advocacy Project was a California-based research justice project that utilized a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach. This report illustrates the basic principles of CBPR and makes recommendations for those wishing to do a CBPR project that holds historically marginalized communities at the center; and/or those attempting to align or deepen their practices according to what works for survivors from historically marginalized communities.
Ethnic-Specific Factsheets on Domestic Violence
Ethnic-specific compilations of statistics on domestic violence, sexual violence, stalking, and help-seeking in Asian communities in the U.S.
Chinese Factsheet (2012)
Filipino Factsheet (2018)
Korean Factsheet (2012)
Muslim Factsheet (2011)
Pacific Islander Factsheet (2018)
South Asian Factsheet (2017)
Vietnamese Factsheet (2012)
AAPI Data, a collection of infographics and factsheets on AAPIs
Centers for Disease Control: 2010-2012 National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (2017)
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