Hedersrelaterat våld och förtryck : En kvalitativ studie om kvinnors frigörelse från hedersvåld genom uppbrottsprocessen

Sammanfattning: The following study addresses the social and global issue of honor-related violence in relation to the process of role exit. The purpose of this study was to research role exit processes of girls, from western countries, who had broken out of honor-related violence. The theories used in this study was shame, guilt and Ebaugh's (1988) Becoming an Ex - The Process of Role Exit. We used a phenomenological approach and qualitative content analysis to analyze six autobiographies written by women who had been victims to honor-related violence in western countries. We found that the girls experienced shame and guilt during all the stages of the process of role exit. The girls especially brought shame upon their family when they decided to departure from them. This resulted in the girls feeling guilt, which in turn led to relapse for some girls. When departing from the family the girls got help from friends, teachers and social workers among others. Our study shows that the process of role exit is not as simple as it can appear in theory. The stages the individual is in can become unclear as gray zones are created between the various stages that are interwoven. Some individuals may assume that they have fulfilled the entire process of role exit when they have left the honor environment they previously lived in only to have a relative or other acquaintance find out where they live or study and hence they must relocate. At the end it took the girls many years and some almost two decades to go through the whole process of role exit. Therefore the process of role exit in relation to honor-related violence is more complicated in practice than it occurs in theory.