{"id":606,"date":"2014-08-05T11:00:40","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T11:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/?p=606"},"modified":"2021-12-01T14:34:56","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T14:34:56","slug":"australian-migrants-trapped-in-slave-like-marriages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/australian-migrants-trapped-in-slave-like-marriages\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian migrants trapped in &#8216;slave-like&#8217; marriages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kanya thought she was starting a new life in\u00a0<a style=\"color: #005689;\" title=\"More from the Guardian on Australia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/australia\">Australia<\/a>\u00a0after arriving from India to marry her husband, but it quickly turned into a nightmare.<\/p>\n<p>She was barred from going out alone, forced to cook and clean for her partner&#8217;s\u00a0<a style=\"color: #005689;\" title=\"More from the Guardian on Family\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/family\">family<\/a>, and made to sleep outdoors if she did not complete her tasks.<\/p>\n<p>The fate of the 18-year-old, whose name has been changed to protect her identity, mirrors that of others in &#8220;slave-like&#8221; relationships that Salvation Army worker Jenny Stanger has taken in at a Sydney refuge for trafficked people in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>The women were lured to Australia by the promise of a happy\u00a0<a style=\"color: #005689;\" title=\"More from the Guardian on Marriage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/marriage\">marriage<\/a>, only to be exploited by their partners.<\/p>\n<p>Read more:\u00a0http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2014\/aug\/01\/australian-migrants-slave-marriages<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kanya thought she was starting a new life in\u00a0Australia\u00a0after arriving from India to marry her husband, but it quickly turned into a nightmare. She was barred from going out alone, forced to cook and clean for her partner&#8217;s\u00a0family, and made to sleep outdoors if she did not complete her tasks. The fate of the 18-year-old, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[34,7,4,10],"class_list":["post-606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-abusive","tag-forced-marriage","tag-halo-project","tag-honour-based-violence"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1817,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions\/1817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}