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Violence and Proximity Violence: Links and Interpretative Developments

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This first chapter aims to deciphering the unresolved ties that harken back to patriarchy, a category used to justify all kinds of abuse and maltreatment of women, even in recent years. The more representations legitimizing the centuries-old exercise of control by men over women’s bodies are shared socially, the more they relegate women to positions of segregation. This is a practice typical of patriarchal systems, which tend to place the weakest subject in a position of permanent subordination. In the case of migrant women, in extreme cases, patriarchy even arrives at the dehumanization, objectification, and reification of their bodies.