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Smack My B*Tch Up

Introduction
Every year many immigrants enter the United States in search of a better life and more opportunities. With immigration come different issues and, consequently, legislatures in the justice system to solve those issues. Many problems that immigrants face have been addressed by different segments of the government, but many more remain to be resolved.
One of the problems that many immigrants face, especially women of color, is domestic violence. Immigrant women enter the United States with a higher risk of being a subject to domestic violence. As Dr. Philip Rhoads explains: "Most of the immigrants came from male-dominated societies, where women work out of the home and never had say in the decision-making" (Costa 1). Some immigrant men also feel their manhood is in jeopardy when their wife, or even children, find jobs and support the family or when children speak English and gain control of the household (Costa 1). Such experiences by immigrant men, along with the submissive role of women in other countries, result in a higher risk of the presence of domestic violence in many immigrant households. This risk is consistently higher than the national average among the immigrants from all regions of the world, but is especially high among Latino/a groups. The normality of domestic violence in Latino/a culture is explained in a song by Amalia Rodrigues: "He beats what is his and it is no one else's business" (Costa 3).
The Oversight
There are many laws in place that protect women from their batterers. However, the problem with these laws is the tendency to forget the significance of women's racial and economic subordination in relation to their vulnerability to battering (Coker 1015). To start with, there is a lack of research on Latina women when it comes to domestic violence. All the research done in this field focuses on white women and the frequent research on minorities is almost always on African American women. Also, the current laws...