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标题：Domestic Conflicts and Marital Violence in Diasporic Nigerian Families: Is It Time for a Paradigm Shift in Cultural Ways of Thinking and Acting?
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作者：Buster C. Ogbuagu
期刊名称：Journal of Alternative Perspectives in the Social Sciences
印刷版ISSN：1944-1088
电子版ISSN：1944-1096
出版年度：2012
卷号：5
期号：1
页码：1-27
出版社：Guild of Independent Scholars
摘要：Searching for "greener pastures," through education and skills learning, as well as escaping an increasingly failing Nigerian state, many Nigerian youth have moved to and acquired residency in Europe and especially United States and Canada. Approach: Whereas some, especially Nigerian males who arrived in the 1970s and 1980s and onwards married and settled down with spouses they met in their host countries, others were not so successful in their marriages or cohabitation with the locals, mostly White and African American women, as these marriages quickly broke down owing to cultural and values incompatibilities. With time rapidly passing and loneliness enveloping them, some have traveled to Nigeria, returning with the so-called "Fedexed" wives, several years, even decades younger. Again several of these often arranged marriages fail for several reasons, including patriarchy, conjugal conflicts and violence resulting in the men murdering their wives, some in gruesome and macabre ways. Results: This study applied the Intersectionality theory, predicated on patriarchy, culture, gender and power to evaluate some of the reasons for the marital tragedies, including the brutal murders of Nigerian women by their spouses in Nigerian families living in Europe, Canada and especially the United States. Conclusion: The study offered strategies for managing Nigerian and other Diasporic marriages, relationships and the attendant conflicts in such ways that Nigerians other ethnics who arrive in Europe and the Americas do not become statistics for such infamy as uxoricide (femicide) that ultimately draws long prison tenure or the lethal injection, while destroying their families forever
关键词：Diaspora; family; domestic conflicts; marital violence; ;femicide; uxoricide; gender; patriarchy; power