Immigrant Safety Plan Essay

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Working on the safety plan reminded me my own situation as an emigrant woman who moved here without her family. Looking at the steps and trying to create a safety plan for myself made me recognize how hard it could be for a female immigrant who doesn’t have relatives or friends in the new place and in this scenario in the United States. Moving to another country is one thing and dealing with an abuser partner in the place that you are not familiar is another huge dilemma for a female especially in my culture, Persian.
However, in my culture I found it really hard to think about somebody that I can trust to share my problem and leave a set of keys with her or him. Although I can speak English, I would get so thrilled by the situation that maybe
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One of the worst things that the Persian woman as an immigrant could face is the fact that in my community everybody knows everybody else. There is lots of stigma around releasing family secret in my culture as well. We prefer to not talk about our problems with others, especially which is related to our relationship with our partner. Also, based on my culture which is more patriarchy than other cultures, female would get most of the blames for not keeping the problem behinds her home’s wall and let other people get involve in her family problem. Most of the people would let themselves to judge whole family members and blaming them for everything that happened in the home. By saying that, safety on the job and in public could be very humiliating for the person as well. In the culture that we don’t talk about our problems, you have to talk to your co-worker about it and how your family is going through the hard time and maybe you need their help could be very hard to do. Talking about your partner is not a common thing in my culture, because female should keep the picture of the happy family all the time and show others that you are the happiest family in the