In what is believed to be the first study of its kind, researchers at Yale have found that victims of political violence were much more likely to report abusing their female partners after immigrating to the United States.

For many U.S. immigrants, political violence in their homelands is a fact of life and is often a factor in their decision to begin anew somewhere else. But the scars that such violence leaves may not be so easy to mend. For many, the violence they were trying to escape resurfaces in their newly adopted homeland.

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