Case Studies of Intimate Partner Violence, Immigration-Related Stress, and Legal Violence During Pregnancy in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region
| Autor: | Carina Heckert, Isabela Solis |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Pregnancy
060101 anthropology 030505 public health media_common.quotation_subject Immigration 06 humanities and the arts Criminology medicine.disease Mental health Gender Studies 03 medical and health sciences Stress (linguistics) medicine Domestic violence 0601 history and archaeology Maternal health 0305 other medical science Psychology Social Sciences (miscellaneous) media_common |
| Zdroj: | Affilia. 36:27-42 |
| ISSN: | 1552-3020 0886-1099 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0886109920939056 |
| Popis: | This article explores how experiences of intimate partner violence (IPV) combined with immigration-related stress shaped pregnancy and postnatal experiences among two immigrant women in the U.S.-Mexico border region of El Paso, TX. Enactment of U.S. immigration policies was changing rapidly during the period of data collection (2018–2019), generating a heightened sense of immigration-related insecurities for research participants. This context brought attention to how immigration law can exacerbate the potential for adverse health outcomes for pregnant and postnatal women caught in abusive relationships. This article presents the case studies of two women, Sara and Sofi, whose experiences reflected broader patterns documented in a larger qualitative study of the emotional experience of pregnancy among 35 first- and second-generation immigrant women in the U.S.-Mexico border region. Both women’s narratives highlight the ways U.S. immigration laws led to a sense of entrapment in abusive relationships during their pregnancies, which put them at heightened vulnerability. Further, the stress they experienced had the potential to lead to embodied health vulnerabilities. The case studies presented illustrate the ways the law can fuel processes that contribute to health risks, highlighting how U.S. immigration law can function as legal violence. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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