Forced Marriage, Coercive Control, and Conducive Contexts: The Experiences of Women in Scotland

Chantler, Khatidja ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9129-2560 and McCarry, Melanie (2019) Forced Marriage, Coercive Control, and Conducive Contexts: The Experiences of Women in Scotland. Violence Against Women, 26 (1). pp. 89-109. ISSN 1077-8012

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Abstract

This paper is based on the first Scottish study of survivor perspectives of forced marriage. In-depth interviews were conducted with eight survivors. Our thematic analysis identified five key themes: understandings of forced marriage; the ?grooming? process; betrayal; legal responses and women?s resistance. Utilising Stark?s (2007) framework of coercive control and Kelly?s (2007) concept of conducive contexts, we illuminate hitherto under-appreciated dynamics of forced marriage: i) the conceptualisation of forced marriage as a process rather than an event, ii) the role of mothers within patriarchal contexts and iii) betrayals of family and services as compounding long-term adverse effects of forced marriage.