This paper presents some of the results from ethnographic fieldwork carried out in different women’s shelters in the Valencian Community. The aim was to find out the types of gender violence experienced by institutionalized immigrant women, from their perspective and point of view. The study followed a qualitative methodology. On the basis of participant observation, personal documents, social reports and, especially, indepth informal interviews it was possible to build up 6 life historie of migrant women. The results show that these institutionalized migrant women experienced gender-based physical, psychological, economic and sexual violence in their families of origin and also in their partner relationships as minors and as adults, and revictimization too.... [Leer más...]