Anjana Nagarajan-Butaney

On International Women’s Day, here is the story of a woman searching for a safe space to live her life.

In the shadow of the American dream, a darker tale emerges - one of transnational abandonment and the plight of immigrant women facing domestic abuse.

Nisha thought that violence in a marriage was simply what every Indian wife ‘had to accept’ in her husband’s home. She was only 24.

When Anjali Kour’s husband abandoned her in India in 2017 after a 15-year abusive marriage, she lost everything – her home, her finances, and her child.

Leena met her firstborn daughter 22 years after she was kidnapped as a baby. But it was not the reunion she had hoped for.

Bay Area artist Tanya describes survival inside a turbulent marriage where her husband and the inlaws subjected her to abuse.

Children are not just witnesses but are also victims of domestic violence.