Author: Cecilia Castelino

Year of DDRG Award: 1997

Grantee University: City University of New York Graduate Center

Dissertation Title: Staying Put and Evicting the Batterer: Institutional and Non-Institutional Strategies Some Battered Women Use

Current Employment: Coordinator of Emerging Markets-South Asia, Omnex Group, Inc.

Research Subject Areas: Money Transfer Payouts From Banks and Other Nonprofit and For-Profit Financial Organizations in South Asia

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