El Problema de los Matrimonios Forzados como Violencia de Género (The Problem of Forced Marriage as a Form of Gender-based Violence)

<p>Forced marriages is a phenomenon that appears linked to migration, but it results difficult to be defined due to its confusion with arranged marriages, fraudulent marriages or marriages of convenience. It is a little known issue in Spain, but not in other European countries that have a larger experience in migration issues and management of multiculturality. In Europe, sometimes forced marriages have been associated to a migration problem, some other times to a religion one, eventually it has been understood only as a cultural problem or as a form of gender violence. Depending on which is the diagnosis and explanation of this phenomenon, it varies the way the law regulates it. The present article identifies the main difficulties the law faces when approaches forced marriages as a form of gender violence of great complexity.</p> <hr /><p>Los matrimonios forzados es un fen&oacute;meno que aparece ligado a la migraci&oacute;n, pero de dif&iacute;cil conceptualizaci&oacute;n por su confusi&oacute;n con los matrimonios pactados, los matrimonios fraudulentos o los matrimonios de conveniencia. Es una cuesti&oacute;n poco conocida en Espa&ntilde;a, pero no en otros pa&iacute;ses europeos que cuentan con una m&aacute;s larga experiencia en cuestiones migratorias y gesti&oacute;n de la multiculturalidad. En Europa unas veces se ha vinculado los matrimonios forzados a un problema migratorio, otras veces religioso, en ocasiones se entiende como problema &uacute;nicamente cultural y otras veces como una forma de violencia de g&eacute;nero. Dependiendo de cu&aacute;l es el diagn&oacute;stico y la explicaci&oacute;n de este fen&oacute;meno, var&iacute;a la forma en la que el derecho lo regula. El presente art&iacute;culo identifica las principales dificultades que la ley se enfrenta para dar una respuesta a los matrimonios forzados, como una forma de violencia de g&eacute;nero de enorme complejidad.</p> <p><strong>DOWNLOAD THIS PAPER FROM SSRN</strong>: <a href="http://ssrn.com/abstract=2611913" target="_blank">http://ssrn.com/abstract=2611913</a>