Specific Stories From Readings
This term refers to the way governments and institutions encourage childbearing for certain groups while discouraging it for others, often along racial and class lines.
What is stratified reproduction?
What is the amendment that guarantees birthright citizenship to those born in the U.S.?
What is the 14th Amendment?
This organization provides direct legal services, legal counseling, and systemic advocacy support for immigrants in Washington state
What is Northwest Immigrant Rights Project?
In both France and Chile, immigrant women have faced pressure to use this medical intervention as part of state population control efforts, sometimes without full consent.
What is sterilization?
This organization predated U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and was one of the original government agencies dedicated to handling immigration in the U.S.
What is the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS)
What amendment the removal of birthright citizenship is breaking and what year it was ratified for 200
What is the 14th Amendment, ratified in 1868?
Anti-immigrant sentiment and bureaucratic obstacles often prevent immigrant women from receiving reproductive healthcare. Name two specific barriers they may face when trying to access these services.
What are language barriers and fear of deportation?
What is the term used to describe the enhanced border enforcement along the U.S.-Mexico border that included the use of military technology seen after 9/11?
What is border militarization?
What is the 287 agreement, and how does it impact the relationship between local law enforcement and federal immigration authorities?
What is allows local law enforcement agencies to work with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to enforce federal immigration laws?
Due to colonial legacies, women from the Global South are often framed in two contradictory ways that justify reproductive control, either as burdens to the welfare state or as this stereotype. What is this stereotype?
What is hyper-fertile?
This law guaranteed citizenship to Native Americans born in the U.S. Native Americans were one of the last groups to gain this right.
What is the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924?
What is the Northwest Detention Center’s current capacity?
What is 1,575?
What is the term used to describe policies that punish or police immigrant motherhood, treating their children as economic burdens or legal loopholes?
What is reproductive criminalization?
The first US immigration station opens in New York Harbor, more than 12 million immigrants would enter the US through station
What is Ellis Island?
Many cities in Washington state are home to large migrant populations. Roughly how many current residents of Tacoma are non-citizens?
What is 14,000? (6.5% of Tacoma’s population!)