Utilizing life story interviews of immigrant women whose children were abducted by abusive (ex-)husbands, the article unpacks a three-part pattern of transnational mobility: first, husbands apply strategies of coercive control to dominate wives in Denmark; second, wives draw on Scandinavian “woman-friendly” state support to challenge men and seek divorce; and third, men try to regain control through abducting children to the Middle East, seeking to blackmail mothers into leaving Denmark and resubmitting themselves to male control. While some wives accede to their husband’s demands, others skillfully manage to “re-abduct” children back to Denmark, thereby belying the trope of the victimized immigrant woman.

通过对子女被虐待（前）丈夫绑架的移民妇女的生活故事访谈，文章揭示了跨国流动的三个部分模式：首先，丈夫运用强制控制策略来支配丹麦的妻子；其次，妻子利用斯堪的纳维亚“对女性友好”的国家支持来挑战男性并寻求离婚；第三，男性试图通过将儿童绑架到中东来重新获得控制权，试图勒索母亲离开丹麦并重新接受男性的控制。虽然一些妻子同意丈夫的要求，但另一些妻子巧妙地设法将孩子“重新绑架”回丹麦，从而掩盖了受害移民妇女的说法。