- Between weeks 8 and 14, each student should provide a weekly reflection (500 words) on the data you have collected to date.
- What data did you collect?
I first did a broad search online about sexual and medical abuse at the U.S. immigration women detention centers. I found many insightful articles about women survivors at these detention centers and the inhumane treatment they experienced at the hands of medical professionals. I plan on using this one article down below as my primary source because it highlights a survivor experience as one of the forty people at the Irwin Detention Center, who experienced a non-consensual surgery. The article also touches upon how communities of color are protesting against the closure of the Irwin Detention Center in Georgia. As a result of the pushback from local communities and public disclosure of medical abuses to social media, the Irwin Detention has terminated its contract with ICE. I hope to incorporate how acts of resistance from survivors and the communities who have families detained play a crucial role in going against these systems of power.
Article:“The Traumas of Irwin Continue to Haunt Me”: Non-Consensual Surgery Survivor Seeks Restitution, Calls to Shut Down Detention Centers,Wendy Dowe
Secondly, I decided to look up some scholarly journals about the Japanese Internment Camps in America. By examining the historical roots of detention centers, it will help me understand the intrinsic details about how racism is embedded within these detention centers and how people of color become vulnerable commodities to exploit.
Article:Japanese American Internment, Robert Aitken and Marilyn Aitken
How have the data you have collected this week changed/progressed you’re thinking about your research project?
My next plan is to find a scholarly journal about the Irwin Detention center to help me ground my research. I am having a hard time finding this specific case study, but I am hopeful that I can find one with the help of Beth Hoppe— Research Liberian.