{"id":5854,"date":"2021-05-11T08:33:01","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T14:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/borderlessmag.org\/?p=5854"},"modified":"2025-10-08T09:21:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T14:21:03","slug":"como-una-trabajadora-social-se-centra-en-los-inmigrantes-supervivientes-de-la-violencia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borderlessmag.org\/es\/2021\/05\/11\/how-a-social-worker-is-centering-immigrant-survivors-of-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"C\u00f3mo una trabajadora social se centra en los inmigrantes supervivientes de la violencia\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t
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Carolina Gallo, 27, has been organizing for close to a decade. As a teenager in Chicago, she learned about social issues such as gentrification, racial inequities and homelessness through the youth program Young Chicago Authors<\/a>. When she turned 18, she began organizing around a variety of issues she cared about, including housing rights, worker rights and immigrant rights.<\/p>\n

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Working with immigrants is especially meaningful to her. Born in Mexico, Gallo and her family moved to the United States in June of 2002. Ten years later, she applied for protection from deportation under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA. Waiting overnight with other hopeful applicants at Navy Pier \u2014 which hosted<\/a> Chicago\u2019s first informational session about the then-nascent program \u2014 instilled in her a strong sense of community and an urgency to help.<\/p>\n

\u201cI realized that there was something greater at stake here,\u201d Gallo said. \u201cAnd that\u2019s when I really decided I wanted to continue to be involved in the immigration rights movement.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gallo is now a client support specialist at a Chicago legal clinic that provides assistance to people impacted by gender-based violence, from helping them access shelter to accompanying them to immigration court. She also works with undocumented survivors of domestic abuse, many of whom are\u00a0afraid<\/a> to seek out legal remedies, although they are among the most vulnerable to this form of violence. A 2006 study published<\/a> by Legal Momentum found that immigrant women married to male U.S. citizens face an abuse rate approximately three times higher than that in the general population. Abusers often weaponize immigration status to intimidate, inflict economic abuse on and deny privileges to their partners, among other tactics, according<\/a> to the National Center on Domestic and Sexual Violence.<\/p>\n

Borderless Magazine spoke with Gallo about how she centers social justice as a social worker and how she helps immigrants understand systems that often work against them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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