Migrant justice as reproductive justice: birthright citizenship and the politics of immigration detention for pregnant women in Canada

Abji, Salina; Larios, Lindsay

doi:10.1080/13621025.2020.1859186

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“…All non-citizens were subject to the limitations on welfare provisions, while exceptions could be made for long sentences or at the discretion of the prison governor, depending on resources. 2 See, inter alia (Abji & Larios, 2021;Bosworth, 2014Bosworth, , 2019Bosworth, , 2023Bosworth & Kellezi, 2017;Bosworth & Turnbull, 2015;Bosworth, Parmar & Vázquez, 2018;Canning & Tombs, 2021;Carlton & Segrave, 2013;Damsa & Franko, 2022;Esposito et al, 2019;Esposito, Matos & Bosworth, 2020;Menjívar & Abrego, 2012). 3 All names used in this article are pseudonyms.…”

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“…Scholars across several fields have explored how women's complex identities interact with legal structures, penal power and deportation regimes (Abji, 2020; Bosworth, 1999; Crenshaw, 1991; Damsa & Franko, 2022; Yuval‐Davis, 2007), particularly in immigration detention (Abji, 2016; Abji & Larios, 2021; Bosworth, 2014; Bosworth & Kellezi, 2017; Canning, 2014, 2017; Canning & Tombs, 2021; Esposito et al., 2019; Esposito, Matos & Bosworth, 2020). In combination, criminal law, immigration law and deportation regimes are shown to produce precarity, making the state culpable of, or complicit in, violence against non‐citizen women.…”

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“…22See, inter alia (Abji & Larios, 2021; Bosworth, 2014, 2019, 2023; Bosworth & Kellezi, 2017; Bosworth & Turnbull, 2015; Bosworth, Parmar & Vázquez, 2018; Canning & Tombs, 2021; Carlton & Segrave, 2013; Damsa & Franko, 2022; Esposito et al, 2019; Esposito, Matos & Bosworth, 2020; Menjívar & Abrego, 2012). …”

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Punished and banished: Non‐citizen women's experiences in a Danish prison

Damsa

2023

Howard J Crime Justice

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The Nordics have employed discourses of gender equality and women's rights and a welfare‐oriented approach to punishment as integral parts of inclusive welfare states and their ‘goodness’. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with non‐citizen women at Vestre Prison in Denmark, this article suggests that the will to punish and banish prevails over the state's commitment to women's rights and protection. Rather than being an inherent feature of incarceration, the pain experienced by non‐citizen women in prison is a ‘political statement’ (Bosworth, 2023). Employing precarisation, incarceration and deportation to govern unwanted non‐citizens and (re)produce the borders of membership, the Danish state also reproduces the conditions for gendered harm. Bordered penality, this article concludes, is gendered.

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Punished and banished: Non‐citizen women's experiences in a Danish prison

Damsa

2023

Howard J Crime Justice

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“…'Clothes, combs, thread and needle, cosmetics, towels, soap, shaving razors, toiletries, all of these can be taken away or denied' (Goffman, 2011: 32). Women in detention tend to suffer more psychological than physical violence, especially as they are caregivers of their children and endure the lack of medicines, healthy food, clean toilets, access to diapers and sanitary pads (Abji and Larios, 2021). The Estación Migratoria Siglo XXI is generally overcrowded, in unsanitary conditions and substandard nutrition, all of which are elements that sustain a total institution.…”

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Immigration Detention, the Patriarchal State and the Politics of Disgust in the Hands of Street-level Bureaucrats

Ahedo

2022

Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture a

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This programme started in January 2019. It requires migrants seeking asylum in the USA to remain in Mexico until their US immigration court date. Between March 2019 and January 2021, a total of 71,071 cases of people participating in this program were reported (Syracuse University, 2021). 2 Total of cases reported between January and November 2021. 3 Article 2 of the Migration Law includes the gender perspective within the principles of migration policy, and Article 30 of the Law provides for the coordination of inter-institutional actions with INMUJERES [National Institute for Women], especially in the area of gender equality training. Furthermore, articles 225 and 226 of the Regulations of the Migration Law stipulate that the human rights of all persons shall be respected in migration stations and that no discrimination based on gender shall be allowed. Furthermore, article 230 of the Regulations stipulates the adoption of protective measures for migrant women, especially pregnant women, such as, for example, giving priority to their stay in specialised institutions; and Article

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“…Reviews of literature in this field (Bosworth, 2016;von Werthern et al, 2018) have also highlighted that empirical studies on immigration detention are predominantly qualitative in their nature and rarely focus on the specific experiences of women (although, see Bosworth et al, 2016Bosworth et al, , 2018Canning, 2017;Esposito et al, 2019bEsposito et al, , 2020aDe Angelis, 2020;Abji and Larios, 2021). One notable exception is represented by the quantitative study conducted by Cwikel et al (2004), which examined the mental health of Russian women detained in Israel.…”

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Women’s Experiences of Immigration Detention in Italy: Examining Immigration Procedural Fairness, Human Dignity, and Health

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Recent decades have witnessed a growing number of states around the world relying on border control measures, such as immigration detention, to govern human mobility and control the movements of those classified as “unauthorised non-citizens.” In response to this, an increasing number of scholars from several disciplines, including psychologists, have begun to examine this phenomenon. In spite of the widespread concerns raised, few studies have been conducted inside immigration detention sites, primarily due to difficulties in gaining access. This body of research becomes even scanter when it comes to the experiences of detained women. This study is the first of its kind to have surveyed 93 women confined in an Italian immigration detention facility. A partial mediation model with latent variables was tested through partial least structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM). The findings revealed the negative impact that unfair immigration procedures have on detained women’s human dignity, which in turn negatively affects their self-rated physical and mental health. Overall, our study sheds light on the dehumanisation and damage to human dignity that immigration detention entails, as well as its negative impact on the health of those affected. This evidence reinforces the image of these institutions as sites of persistent injustice, while stressing the need to envision alternative justice-oriented forms to address human mobility.

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Migrant justice as reproductive justice: birthright citizenship and the politics of immigration detention for pregnant women in Canada

Cited by 7 publications

References 49 publications

Punished and banished: Non‐citizen women's experiences in a Danish prison

Punished and banished: Non‐citizen women's experiences in a Danish prison

Immigration Detention, the Patriarchal State and the Politics of Disgust in the Hands of Street-level Bureaucrats

Women’s Experiences of Immigration Detention in Italy: Examining Immigration Procedural Fairness, Human Dignity, and Health

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