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dc.contributor.advisorMidden, Eva
dc.contributor.authorLevy Mora, ALMA
dc.date.accessioned2021-10-29T09:55:19Z
dc.date.available2021-10-29T09:55:19Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifier.urihttps://studenttheses.uu.nl/handle/20.500.12932/21
dc.description.abstractThe U.S. has a colonial and imperialist history of reproductive oppression towards women’s bodies, sexuality, labor, reproduction, and parenting. Although feminist groups in the U.S. have advocated for decades to obtain the legalization of abortion, birth control, and the contraceptive pill, as part of the Pro-choice struggles, this movement has not considered other oppressions besides those experienced by white women, therefore, a Reproductive Justice framework is fundamental. Women of color in detention face several oppressions that do not allow them to have choices, nor rights. Forced sterilization practices and medical abuses against different communities in the U.S. have been widely documented. Nevertheless, these practices continue to occur nowadays. Women of color in detention face multiple intersections of oppressions that drive them far from accessing justice, and the immigration detention system is responsible for countless human rights violations and structural violence. The main questions that I seek to provide an answer for with this research are: to what extent is women of color’s access to Reproductive Justice hindered by the structural violence embedded in the U.S. immigration detention system, allowing the continuation of forced sterilizations and other non-consensual abusive gynecological procedures, as for example, those occurred in Irwin County Detention Center (ICDC) nowadays? And what strategies of resistance have taken non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and women of color against these abuses?
dc.description.sponsorshipUtrecht University
dc.language.isoEN
dc.subjectThe U.S. has a colonial and imperialist history of reproductive oppression towards women’s bodies, sexuality, labor, reproduction, and parenting. Despite its achievements, the pro-choice movement in the U.S. has not considered other oppressions besides those experienced by white women, therefore, a Reproductive Justice framework is fundamental. This thesis analyses a case study involving forced sterilization and other non-consensual gynecological procedures occurring in 2020.
dc.titleZeroed out: Reproductive Justice for Women of Color held in immigrant detention in the U.S. The 2020 Irwin County Detention Center case
dc.type.contentMaster Thesis
dc.rights.accessrightsOpen Access
dc.subject.keywordsReproductive Justice; Intersectionality; Women of Color; immigration; detention; prison-to-deportation pipeline; structural violence
dc.subject.courseuuGEMMA: Master degree in Women's and Gender studies
dc.thesis.id287


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