Material exit options, not immigration control, protect women from forced marriage.

Evidence

In the final analysis, the aim of the Government is to keep black and migrant people out of Britain – through strict racist immigration and asylum laws and policies – not to protect women and others from human rights violations. If this were not the case, then liberalising the immigration laws would in fact indicate a greater willingness on the part of the government to prevent forced marriage. If there are no immigration rules to by-pass, then what need is there to force a woman into marriage in order to enter the country? — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 327 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Forced marriage is triggered by loss of control over daughters’ sexuality, not immigration policy.; Anti-forced-marriage narratives erase colonization from the story — Sherene Razack, Casting Out: The Eviction of Muslims…, 280; Prevent initiatives framed Muslim women only as wives and mothers who restrain men — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia: Still a Challenge for Us…, 569 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Britain’s forced-marriage agenda is a cover for excluding black and migrant people #complicates (0.82) — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 327