‘I’m going to look for you and take your kids’: Reproductive justice in the context of immigration enforcement

Prior research has shown that immigration law enforcement contributes to poor health outcomes-including reproductive health outcomes-among Latinos. Yet no prior research has examined how immigration enforcement might inhibit reproductive justice and limit individual's reproductive autonomy. We...

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Veröffentlicht in:	PloS one Jg. 14; H. 6; S. e0217898
Hauptverfasser:	Fleming, Paul J., Lopez, William D., Ledon, Charo, Llanes, Mikel, Waller, Adreanne, Harner, Melanie, Martinez, Ramiro, Kruger, Daniel J.
Format:	Journal Article
Sprache:	Englisch
Veröffentlicht:	United States Public Library of Science 04.06.2019 Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Schlagworte:	Adult Autonomy Biology and Life Sciences Child Childbearing Childbirth & labor Children Citizenship Civil rights Communities Data collection Decision making Demographics Demography Deportation Emigration and Immigration Enforcement Families & family life Family Female Genetic engineering Health aspects Health care Health care access Health care policy Health education Health status Hispanic Americans Humans Immigrants Immigration Immigration law Immigration policy Influence Justice Latin American cultural groups Latin Americans Law Enforcement Male Medical law Medicine and Health Sciences Mental health Mexican American literature Noncitizens Parenting Participant observation People and Places Policy reform Political aspects Polls & surveys Pregnancy Psychological aspects Psychological effects Public health Qualitative analysis Qualitative research Raids Reforms Reproduction Reproductive health Reproductive rights Research and Analysis Methods Social aspects Social Justice - psychology Social Sciences Sociodemographics Surveys and Questionnaires Womens health Michigan Ann Arbor Michigan United States > US
ISSN:	1932-6203, 1932-6203
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Zusammenfassung:	Prior research has shown that immigration law enforcement contributes to poor health outcomes-including reproductive health outcomes-among Latinos. Yet no prior research has examined how immigration enforcement might inhibit reproductive justice and limit individual's reproductive autonomy. We utilized data from an existing study that consisted of a partnership with a Latino community in Michigan in which an immigration raid resulted in multiple arrests and deportations midway through data collection. Using cross-sectional survey data (n = 192) where no one was re-interviewed, we used ordinal logistic regression to compare desired pregnancy timing of individuals surveyed prior to and after the raid to determine the impact of an immigration raid on desired timing of next pregnancy. We then used qualitative data-including 21 in-depth interviews and participant observation-collected in the community after the raid to contextualize our findings. Controlling for socio-demographic characteristics, we found that Latinos surveyed in the aftermath of the raid were more likely to report a greater desire to delay childbearing than Latinos surveyed before the raid occurred. Our qualitative data showed that an immigration raid has financial and psychological effects on immigrant families and that a raid may impact reproductive autonomy because people are fearful of these impacts. These finding suggest that current immigration enforcement efforts may influence reproductive decision-making, impede Latinos reproductive autonomy, and that family-friendly immigration policy reform is needed.
Bibliographie:	ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 14 content type line 23 Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
ISSN:	1932-6203 1932-6203
DOI:	10.1371/journal.pone.0217898