parmi les femmes Tamoul récemment

arrivées à Toronto, Ontario et explore comment elles perçoivent les abus aux femmes dans cette communauté et quelle est leur réaction. Violence against women has been identified as major public health prob-lem with one of its most common forms, intimate partner violence (IPV),1 experienced by women of every nation. Intimate partner vio-lence is defined as the experience or threat of physical or sexual violence and/or financial or psychological/ emotional abuse by a current or ex-partner (Saltzman, Fanslow, McMa-hon and Shelley). Although over the past decade IPV has been the focus of much research, few studies have ex-amined how newcomer women per-ceive and define intimate partner vio-lence and whether differences in their recognition of abusive behaviour rep-resent a barrier to accessing help. This paper presents data from a study conducted among Tamil newcomer women in Toronto, Ontario that explored perceptions of, and re-sponses to IPV in this community