In the coming weeks I will be conducting research on the topic of access to reproductive justice movements and services by Latina immigrants in the United States. The following sources are two papers I have recently utilized as I begin this process and collect information on this particularly salient topic.
Gomez, M. M. (2015). Intersections at the border: immigration enforcement, reproductive oppression, and the policing of Latina bodies in the Rio Grande Valley. Columbia Journal Of Gender And Law, (1), 84.
The author of this article is Madeline Gomez, who at the time of publishing this piece was a Federal Policy Fellow at National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health. She had received her J.D. from Columbia Law School in 2015. Columbia …show more content…
The paper is written to those who have previous experience in Latina and feminist rights, but it would especially helpful for advocates who may not have previous knowledge of either Latina struggles or reproductive justice. Gomez mainly focuses on secondary sources and theory for this research, with the exception of her heavy use of historical legislation in Texas whose nature is that of a primary source. She also makes use of a personal interview with Elora Mukherjee, an assistant professor at Columbia Law and the director of the Law School’s Immigrants’ Rights Clinic. Gomez utilizes this conglomeration of mostly qualitative data to argue for a more comprehensive support system for undocumented Latina women seeking reproductive health care. She finds two primary gaps in policy and activism: (a) ignorance of the negative effects of neo-liberal policy, and (b) ignorance of the “lived experience” of Latina immigrants and how it differs from the experiences of longtime US citizens without Hispanic …show more content…
I find this to be a very strong source in my upcoming literature review because of Gomez’s focus on policy. Much of her conclusions are influenced by scholars with a high amount of standing in the feminist scholarship community. There are few sources of information that approach the gap in knowledge of Latina reproductive justice through a policy perspective. Gomez’s paper fills this gap but examining both historical and current legislation to illustrate the manner in which Latina reproductive health has been overlooked by US policy makers and activists. Although this piece is not necessarily a foundational text on Latina reproductive justice, it does take many of the keystone pieces of feminist scholarship (e.g. Bell Hooks and Kimberly Crenshaw) and applies them specifically to analyzing Latina movements and struggles. I think the only way this paper could be strengthened is if it were to use direct interviews with the undocumented women it studies. However, because of either time or budget restraints Gomez resorted to an interview with another professor who worked with those women. This may give her significantly less material to work with, but I feel that this significantly reduces this paper’s
Gomez, M. M. (2015). Intersections at the border: immigration enforcement, reproductive oppression, and the policing of Latina bodies in the Rio Grande Valley. Columbia Journal Of Gender And Law, (1), 84.
The author of this article is Madeline Gomez, who at the time of publishing this piece was a Federal Policy Fellow at National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health. She had received her J.D. from Columbia Law School in 2015. Columbia …show more content…
The paper is written to those who have previous experience in Latina and feminist rights, but it would especially helpful for advocates who may not have previous knowledge of either Latina struggles or reproductive justice. Gomez mainly focuses on secondary sources and theory for this research, with the exception of her heavy use of historical legislation in Texas whose nature is that of a primary source. She also makes use of a personal interview with Elora Mukherjee, an assistant professor at Columbia Law and the director of the Law School’s Immigrants’ Rights Clinic. Gomez utilizes this conglomeration of mostly qualitative data to argue for a more comprehensive support system for undocumented Latina women seeking reproductive health care. She finds two primary gaps in policy and activism: (a) ignorance of the negative effects of neo-liberal policy, and (b) ignorance of the “lived experience” of Latina immigrants and how it differs from the experiences of longtime US citizens without Hispanic …show more content…
I find this to be a very strong source in my upcoming literature review because of Gomez’s focus on policy. Much of her conclusions are influenced by scholars with a high amount of standing in the feminist scholarship community. There are few sources of information that approach the gap in knowledge of Latina reproductive justice through a policy perspective. Gomez’s paper fills this gap but examining both historical and current legislation to illustrate the manner in which Latina reproductive health has been overlooked by US policy makers and activists. Although this piece is not necessarily a foundational text on Latina reproductive justice, it does take many of the keystone pieces of feminist scholarship (e.g. Bell Hooks and Kimberly Crenshaw) and applies them specifically to analyzing Latina movements and struggles. I think the only way this paper could be strengthened is if it were to use direct interviews with the undocumented women it studies. However, because of either time or budget restraints Gomez resorted to an interview with another professor who worked with those women. This may give her significantly less material to work with, but I feel that this significantly reduces this paper’s