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  1. My Body is Mine: A qualitative study of intimate partner violence and agency among internally displaced women in Leogane, Haiti Ciann Wilson1, PhD CandidateCo-authors: Carmen Logie2, PhD and CarolAnn Daniel3, PhD1: Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, Toronto; 2: Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto: 3: Faculty of Social Work, Adelphi University, New York

  2. Background • The 2010 earth quake in Haiti devastated the economic, social and health infrastructure. • Today 280, 000 Haitians remain internally displaced. • Reports show that 86% of the displaced people reporting GBV were women. • GBV historically situated in a history of IPV in Haiti.

  3. Background There is a lack of research that… • qualitatively explores Haitian women’s lived experiences and agency. • disrupts the narrative of Haitian women’s victimization and focuses on their strength and resistance

  4. Methods • CBR with local NGOs in Leogane, Haiti • Hired and trained local women to recruit and conduct focus groups and interviews. • 4 focus groups with 10 women each (n=40) • Focus group participants had completed a 6 week group based psycho-educational HIV prevention program • 7 Individual interviews • Thematic Analysis used

  5. Findings Some in my group talked about physical violence. There are some who don’t want people to know about their private lives. As for sexual violence, some women said sometime they don’t want to have sex but the partner forces them to do it. (PHW 1)

  6. Findings: Agency Intrapersonal: “we find people who are opening our mind, we learn about things, at the same time learning how to protect ourselves so that any bad things don’t happen to us” (FG3). Relational: My dear, I was so dumb. I am 46 years old and I have 12 children. And now, a man could not offer me money to have his child…Which means that I am too smart right now. I’ve become too smart. I talk to the man about wearing condoms when we are having sex. (FG3) Collective:We don’t have to stay to get beat up all the time. Men have right over women but women have rights to. You must fight back. (FG 1)

  7. Conclusion These narratives highlight the multi-level forms of agency, their limits when contextualized by pervasive structural violence, poverty and gender norms, but also the possibilities for change as practices both on the individual and collective level can challenge long established gender practices. THANK YOU!

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