- By the end of the semester, you should compile an annotated bibliography with at least ten sources that you believe will be central to your research projects.
Annotated Bibliographies
Aguilera, Jasmine.More Than 40 Women File Class Action Lawsuit Alleging Medical Misconduct by ICE Doctor at Georgia Detention Center. Time. 2020.https://time.com/5924021/women-lawsuit-irwin-detention-ice/
This article helps contextualize the class-action lawsuit that was filed by immigrant women in 2020. The source will help me provide background on the human rights violations that were alleged by these women.
Boehm, Inka Skłodowska. “PUNISHMENT AND PREJUDICE: REPRODUCTIVE COERCION IN IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT DETENTION CENTERS.” The American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law 29, no. 4 (2022): 529-561.https://login.ezproxy.bowdoin.edu/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/punishment-prejudice-reproductive-coercion/docview/2637412442/se-2?accountid=9681.
This source examines how forced sterilization is not unconstitutional by the United States and the medical negligence that happens within detention centers. It also examines the lack of reproductive care and how that is a human right violation for these women.
CGTN: Inside the Immigrant Detention Center: Blood and Bussiness, Lives and Lies. Government Accountability Project. 2021.
With this source, I was able to better understand the internal workings of the privatization of detention centers and how they find loopholes to not be held accountable for committing human rights violations.
Davis, Angela. Prison Are Obsolete. Seven Stories Press. 2003.
For this source, I have incorporated the concept of the gendering of state punishment as a way to examine how incarcerated women who experience sexual abuse are seen as deserving of it. Incarcerated women are not seen as having rights therefore the abuses that happen to them inside prison are not seen or treated as a crime. The gendering of state punishment not only includes sexual abuse but forced hysterectomies, sterilizations, and medical abuse as a way to take away their womanhood or motherhood. The influence of state power on women’s bodies is something that I plan on incorporating into this research project.
Dickerson, Caitlin, Wessler F. Seth, Jordan Miriam. Immigrants Say They Were Pressured Into Unneeded Surgeries.2020.
This source highlights the unwanted medical surgeries that women were pressured into by medical professionals. They highlight how when they came in for minor health-related problems, they were advised to get surgery. Lack of proper medical care and uninformed consent is what leads to these forced hysterectomies.
Dowe, Wendy. The Traumas of Irwin Continue to Haunt Me”: Non-Consensual Surgery Survivor Seeks Restitution, Calls to Shut Down Detention Centers. More Than A Magazine, A Movement. 2021.
This source provides firsthand testimonials of the trauma endured by the immigrant women at the Irwin Detention Center. I will use their testimonials as a way to shed light on the invasive practices and the medical neglect they experience. They also point out their abuser who is Amin Mahendra, a medical professional, who caused them and other women severe lifelong health complications and is the one responsible for the forced hysterectomies.
Lopez, G. Gloria. 2015. Family Secrets: Stories of Incest and Sexual Violence in Mexico. New York University Press.
I used the culture of fear as a framework to understand how immigrant women are unable to speak out because of the dangerous consequences associated with doing so. Her framework of the culture of fear helps situate how immigrant women fear being deported back to their home countries by ICE if they choose to speak out. This is a strategic tactic that ICE uses to instill fear in these women, especially those that already have children.
Elfrink, Tim. Pelosi Demands Probe After ICE Nurse Raises Alarm Over Medical Care, Hysterectomies at Detention Center. Washington Post. 2020.
This source highlights the federal complaint filed by the whistleblower nurse, Dawn Wooten who use to work at the Irwin Detention Center. She expresses the brutal conditions immigrant women lived in and the unusually high rate of forced hysterotomies being administered to them without their consent.
Moffat, Emile. Attorney: Last of the Immigrants at Irwin County Detention Center have been transferred. WABE. 2021.
This source help detail the testimonials of the women who alleged medical and sexual abuse against medical professional like Amin Mahendra. They describe their experience as an experiment and not having control over their bodies.
Rogne, Allison. 2013. “U.S. Institutionalized Torture with Impunity: Examining Rape and Sexual Abuse in Custody through the ICTY Jurisprudence.”Revista De Direito Internacional10 (2).https://login.ezproxy.bowdoin.edu/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/u-s-institutionalized-torture-with-impunity/docview/1508453491/se-2.
This source analyzes how rape is treated with impunity within the prison system in the U.S. I used this framework to help my argument that the sexual abuse immigrant women experience was not treated as a crime because of their criminalization status.
Semnani, G. Neda, Sherman, Carter, Green Emily. Women Say They Were Abused and Deported by ICE. Now They Fear Being Silenced. Vice News. 2020.
This source also provides the testimonials of medical violence that immigrant women endured while being detained in ICE custody. This source also highlights the stories of deportation as a result of them speaking out.