Note: Also see this bibliography on violence against women in immigrant, refugee, and culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities.
Key and recent overviews
Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety. (2021). Best practice for working with culturally and linguistically diverse communities in addressing violence against women (ANROWS Insights, 03/2021). ANROWS.
Cardenas, I. (2020). Advancing intersectionality approaches in intimate partner violence research: a social justice approach. Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social Work, 1-11. doi:10.1080/15313204.2020.1855494
Chen, J. (2017). Intersectionality matters: A guide to engaging immigrant and refugee communities to prevent violence against women. Melbourne, VIC: Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health. URL: https://www.mcwh.com.au/wp-content/uploads/Intersectionality-Matters-Guide-2017.pdf
Cuevas, C. A., & Cudmore, R. M. (2017). Intimate Partner Violence Prevention among Underserved and Understudied Groups: The Roles of Culture and Context. In C. M. Renzetti, D. R. Follingstad, & A. L. Coker (Eds.), Preventing Intimate Partner Violence (pp. 15-38): Policy Press.
Gill, A. K. (2012) Intersecting inequalities: Implications for Addressing Violence Against Black and Minority Ethnic Women in the United Kingdom. In McMillan, L., & Lombard, N. (Eds.). Violence against women: Current theory and practice in domestic abuse, sexual violence, and exploitation.
Istratii, R., Ali, P., & Feder, G. (2024). Integration of religious beliefs and faith-based resources in domestic violence services to migrant and ethnic minority communities: A scoping review. Violence: An International Journal, 5(1), 94-122. doi:10.1177/26330024241246810
Poljski, C. (2011). On her way: Primary prevention of violence against immigrant and refugee women in Australia. Retrieved from: http://www.mcwh.com.au/downloads/publications/On_Her_Way_2011.pdf
Tayton, S., Kaspiew, R., Moore, S., and Campo, M. (2014). Groups and communities at risk of domestic violence and family violence: a review and evaluation of domestic and family prevention and early intervention services focusing on at-risk groups and communities. Melbourne: Australian Institute of Family Studies.
Further works
Australian Muslim Women’s Centre for Human Rights (AMWCHR) (2011). Muslim women, Islam and family violence: a guide for changing the way we work with Muslim women experiencing family violence. Melbourne: AMWCHR.
Australian Muslim Women’s Centre for Human Rights (AMWCHR) (2013). Working with Muslim women on the effects of family violence and child sexual abuse on children. Melbourne: AMWCHR.
Bartels, L. (2011). Crime prevention programs for culturally and linguistically diverse communities in Australia. Research in Practice Report, no. 18, Australian Institute of Criminology, Canberra.
Burman, E., Smailes, S.L., & Chantler, K. (2004). ‘Culture’ as a barrier to service provision and delivery: Domestic violence services for minoritized women. London: Sage.
Dabby C. (2017). A to Z Advocacy Model: Asians and Pacific Islanders Build an Inventory of Evidence-Informed Practices. Oakland CA: Asian Pacific Institute on Gender-Based Violence.
Department of Human Services (Victoria). (2012). Indigenous Family Violence Primary Prevention Framework. Melbourne: Government of Victoria.
Department of Social Services. (2015). A platform for action: Report from the national roundtable on responding to violence against culturally and linguistically diverse women and their children. Canberra: DSS.
DHS (Victorian Department of Human Services). (2012). Indigenous Family Violence Primary Prevention Framework. Melbourne: DHS, Victorian Government.
Elliott, K., Block, K., Cho, H., & Murdolo, A. (2025). “It’s Really Important that we Listen to Them”: Engaging Immigrant Men in Family Violence Prevention. Journal of Family Violence. doi:10.1007/s10896-025-00897-y
Jones, B., & Anyieth, A. K. (2023). CALD Communities as “Collateral Damage” in the Criminalization of Coercive Control: An Argument for Prioritizing Civil System Reform Over Further Criminalization in Victoria. Violence Against Women, 0(0), 10778012231214775. doi:10.1177/10778012231214775
Khawaja, N. G., & Hebbani, A. (2024). Educating Culturally and Linguistically Diverse People in Australia about Domestic Violence. Journal of Social Service Research, 1-14.
Taylor, S., Stallings, A., Greenstein, S., Ochoa, A., Said, A., Salinas, N., . . . Phan, M. (2024). Serving IPV Survivors in Culturally Diverse Communities: Perspectives From Current Service Providers. Violence Against Women, 30(8), 1866-1882. doi:10.1177/10778012241239938
Cho, H. E. (2024). Filling the gaps: grassroots prevention of domestic and family violence within the Korean-Australian community. Journal of Gender-Based Violence, 1-21. doi:10.1332/23986808y2024d000000050
El-Matrah, J., A. Bedar, and N. Lotia (2011). Women, Islam and Family Violence: A Guide for Changing the Way we Work with Muslim Women Experiencing Family Violence. Northcote: AMWCHR.
Ethnic Communities’ Council of Victoria (2013). Women Surviving Violence: Cultural competence in critical services. ECCCV Policy Research Paper.
Flood, M. (2013). Engaging Men from Diverse Backgrounds in Preventing Men’s Violence Against Women. Stand Up! National Conference on Eliminating All Forms of Violence Against CaLD Women, April 29-30, Canberra. URL: https://xyonline.net/content/engaging-men-diverse-backgrounds-preventing-mens-violence-against-women
Flory, Rani. (2012). Whittlesea CALD Communities Family Violence Project: Scoping Exercise Report. Melbourne: Whittlesea Community Futures & Whittlesea Community Connections. URL: http://www.whittleseacommunityconnections.org.au/cald-family-violence-project.html
Ghafournia, N. (2017). Muslim women and domestic violence: Developing a framework for social work practice. Journal of Religion & Spirituality in Social Work, 36(1-2), 146-163.
Hovane, V. (2006-07). White Privilege and the Fiction of Colour Blindness: Implications for Best Practice Standards for Aboriginal Victims of Family Violence. Australian Domestic and Family Violence Clearinghouse Newsletter, No. 27, pp. 8-12.
Hovane, V. (2015). Improving Outcomes Through a Shared Understanding of Family Violence in Aboriginal Communities: Towards an Aboriginal Theory of Family Violence. InPsych, 37(5). https://www.psychology.org.au/inpsych/2015/#s2
Hovane, V., and D. Cox. (2011). Closing the Gap on Family Violence: Driving Prevention and Intervention Through Health Policy. Sydney: Australian Domestic and Family Violence Clearinghouse, Issues Paper 21.
Koleth, Maria, Nina Serova, and Barbara K. Trojanowska. (2020). Prevention of violence against women and safer pathways to services for migrant and refugee communities: Ten research insights from the Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Projects with Action Research (CALD PAR) initiative. Sydney: ANROWS.
Krayem, G., & Krayem, M. (2021). Muslim women’s agency in Australian domestic violence services. In Muslim women and agency (pp. 76–97). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004473225_006
Mitchell-Clark, K., and A. Autry. (2004). Preventing family violence: Lessons from the community engagement initiative. San Francisco: Family Violence Prevention Fund.
Murdolo, A., and R. Quiazon. (2016). Key issues in working with men from immigrant and refugee communities in preventing violence against women. North Sydney: White Ribbon Australia.
Murdolo, Adele, and Regina Quiazon. (2015). Bringing the Margins to the Centre, paper prepared for Our Watch. Available in Our Watch, Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety (ANROWS) and VicHealth (2015) Change the Story: A shared framework for the primary prevention of violence against women and their children in Australia, Our Watch, Melbourne, Australia.
Rana, S., & Marin, L. (2012). Addressing domestic violence in immigrant communities: Critical issues for culturally competent services. National Resource Center on Domestic Violence.
Reeves, E., & Meyer, S. (2021). Marginalized Women, Domestic and Family Violence Reforms and Their Unintended Consequences. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. (2011). Strengthening What Works: Preventing IPV in Immigrant and Refugee Communities – Understanding The Challenges Of Preventing Intimate Partner Violence: An Analytical Bibliography. National Program Office, LTG Associates, Inc. Takoma Park, MD.
Simbandumwe, L., Bailey, K., Denetto, S., Migliardi, P., Bacon, B. and Nighswander, M. (2008) Family violence prevention programs in immigrant communities: perspectives of immigrant men. Journal of Community Psychology, 36 (7): 899-914.
Simon‐Kumar, R., Kurian, P. A., Young‐Silcock, F., & Narasimhan, N. (2017). Mobilising culture against domestic violence in migrant and ethnic communities: Practitioner perspectives from Aotearoa/New Zealand. Health & social care in the community, 25(4), 1387-1395.
Taft, A., Hegarty, K., Yelland, J., Mazza, D., Norman, R., Feder, G., Boyle, D., Nguyen, C., Garcia-Moreno, C., & Young, F. (2023). A culturally competent systems intervention in primary health care to reduce domestic violence among immigrant communities: HARMONY a pragmatic cluster-randomised controlled trial in Melbourne, Australia. Population Medicine, 5(Supplement).
Tayton, S., R. Kaspiew, S. Moore, and M. Campo. (2014). Groups and communities at risk of domestic violence and family violence: a review and evaluation of domestic and family prevention and early intervention services focusing on at-risk groups and communities. Australian Institute of Family Studies.
UN Population Fund (2004) Guide to Working from Within: 24 Tips for Culturally Sensitive Programming, New York: UN Population Fund, available at: http://www.unfpa.org/public/home/publications/pid/1410.
Vaughan, C., Davis, E., Murdolo, A., Chen, J., Murray, L., Block, K., Quiazon, R., & Warr, D. (2015). Promoting community-led responses to violence against immigrant and refugee women in metropolitan and regional Australia: The ASPIRE Project: State of knowledge paper. ANROWS Landscapes, 12/2015.
Venganai, Hellen. (2015). (Re)constructing positive cultures to protect girls and women against sexual violence, Agenda, 29:3, 145-154.
Whitaker, Daniel J., and LeRoy Reese. (eds). (2007). Preventing intimate partner violence and sexual violence in racial/ethnic minority communities: CDC’s demonstration projects. Atlanta, Ga.: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
World Health Organization. (2014). Preventing and addressing intimate partner violence against migrant and ethnic minority women: The role of the health sector. Copenhagen: WHO Regional Office for Europe.