Mothers, babies, and abortion at the border: Contradictory U.S. policies, or targeting fertility?
Mothers, babies, and abortion at the border: Contradictory U.S. policies, or targeting fertility?
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边境的母亲、婴儿和堕胎：美国政策相互矛盾，还是以生育为目标？
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2021
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N. Hiemstra
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移民妇女的生育能力--或者更准确地说，非白人移民妇女的生育能力--长期以来一直是美国人恐惧和愤怒的主题。这种消极态度在围绕移民的态度、话语和政策中显而易见，如“锚婴儿”、关于出生公民权的辩论以及对移民妇女生殖和性行为的漫画化想法。2018年，特朗普政府以各种方式实施了一系列针对移民生育的政策，其中包括美国的家庭分离。墨西哥边境，以及拒绝为被拘留的移民青少年堕胎。本文探讨了撕裂移民家庭的明显矛盾，同时基本上迫使新的非白人公民的生产。借鉴女性主义地理学和酷儿研究的理论视角，本文确定了当代围绕移民的话语中构建的三个肥沃的人物：繁殖者，锚婴儿和坏父母。这种方法提供了一个窗口，进入持久的白色，父权制，heteronormative民族主义特别明显，在这一点上，美国历史。它还阐明了这些政策共同努力消除美国殖民地过去和现在的方式，以及种族等级制度对当代全球资本主义的中心地位。
Migrant women’s fertility—or more precisely, non-white migrant women’s fertility—has long been the subject of fear and anger in the United States. This negativity is evident in attitudes, discourse, and policies around immigration, as seen in terms such as “anchor baby,” debates over birthright citizenship, and caricatured ideas of migrant women’s reproduction and sexuality. In 2018, the Trump administration put in place a number of policies targeting migrant fertility in various ways, among them family separation at the U.S.-Mexico border, and the denial of abortions to detained immigrant teens. This article explores the apparent contradiction of ripping immigrant families apart, while at the same time essentially forcing the production of new non-white citizens. Drawing on feminist geographic and queer studies theoretical lenses, the article identifies three fertile figures constructed in contemporary discourse around immigration: the breeder, the anchor baby, and the bad parent. This approach provides a window into the enduring white, patriarchal, heteronormative nationalism particularly evident at this point in U.S. history. It also illuminates ways in which these policies collectively work to erase the United States’ colonial past and present, and the centrality of racial hierarchies to contemporary global capitalism.