'I had no-one. I had no choice. I had to go back to my ex'
Many women arrive in the UK in a happy relationship and the legal right to live with their partner. But some of those relationships break down and turn into a life of physical and sexual abuse.
"He started becoming physical and he would blackmail me into things I didn't want to do by saying he would kick me out of the house if I didn't," she says. "I remember I had to beg him for food." The charity Southall Black Sisters, based in London, is running a pilot scheme with the Home Office to help NRPF women who have suffered domestic abuse.
She said: "The kind of utter poverty that these women have been reduced to is what we have been campaigning against all these years. There is a second-class treatment of migrant women who are just forgotten."Victims of domestic violence have themselves been arrested and put into detention centres, Rahila Gupta says
"We have witnessed police turning up to a report of domestic abuse and instead of paying attention to protecting the woman, they might want to see what her immigration status," said Ms Gupta. Southall Black Sisters believes the future of this group of women is uncertain because the government pilot offering support is due to end this month.
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