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Family Mediation

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Marital Breakdown among British Asians

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This chapter shines a light on privatized processes of family mediation that unfold in the event of marital conflict. Socio-legal researchers have discussed family mediation as a black box in understandings of legal pluralism among British Asians, but also regarded it with suspicion, as a potential source of pressure on women to remain in unhappy or abusive marriages. The chapter shows that women, and men, claim family mediation as an entitlement contingent on having an arranged marriage, but that it is subject to pragmatic considerations. They also improvise kinship support in love marriages. The chapter concludes that family mediation cannot be characterized either as a centrifugal or centripetal force.

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    Kaveri Qureshi

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Qureshi, K. (2016). Family Mediation. In: Marital Breakdown among British Asians. Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57047-5_4

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