Wen Lin and Imm Tan's essay "Holding Up More Than Half the Heavens," addresses the lack of multicultural and multilingual services for battered Asian Pacific American women. "In the entire United States, only two shelters exist for Asian Pacific American women" (Wen Lin and Imm Tan, 464). Their essay brings to light the issue of who is taken into women's shelters and who is turned away...
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Their essay brings to light the issue of who is taken into women's shelters and who is turned away. Women of different cultures who cannot speak English are the individuals being deprived of shelter services often "because of language and cultural difficulties or sheer racism" (Wen Lin and Imm Tan, 464)...
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