JOURNAL OF GENDER, RACE AND JUSTICE

This essay examines how the intersection of race, gender, and cultural stereotypes operate to limit black migrant women's human rights recognition and access to the legal system in North America. The author explores the negative identities assigned to Mavis Baker, a Jamaican immigrant to Canada, by the media and an immigration officer recommending her deportation.

This study highlights the needs for closer scrutiny of the inter-sectional nature of perpetrators of domestic violence. The author posits that attention on the identities of victims of domestic violence fails to reveal the reason why success in family court cases does not always align with the victims adherence to decision-makers' expectations of the "perfect victim". The article argues that the expansion of inter-sectional and performance theory to perpetrators is necessary to gain further insight into this discrepancy.

This article provides a theoretical framework from which to advocate women's