Black women are not reporting domestic abuse out of fear of being deported, a charity has warned. Ngozi Headley-Fulani, who runs Sistah Space, an unfunded domestic violence charity in Hackney, says the Windrush scandal and recent reports of mass-deportations to the Caribbean are trapping women in violent and abusive relationships. She said black women are ‘dying in mass numbers’ because of the government’s ‘hostile environment’ – a term coined by Theresa May in 2012 to describe the Home Office’s plan to crackdown on illegal immigration. Ngozi, along with chief volunteer Rosanna Lewis, were given a remit by City Hall to look into why women of African and Caribbean heritage were underreporting domestic abuse. (Text courtesy of Metro)
Black women scared to report domestic abuse in case Home Office deports them
