“In the end … I got pregnant. And that wasn't what the plans were”: Threats to reproductive health and rights for migrant women intending to seek safety in the U.S.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Reproductive health and rights for migrant women intending to seek safety in the U.S. are shaped by the risk environments through which they migrate, including policy, social, economic, and physical factors. We examined migrant women's lived experiences of reproductive health and rights resulting from and perpetuated by these risk environments across migration phases. As part of a larger study examining maternal and reproductive health among U.S.-bound pregnant and parenting migrant women seeking safety at the Mexico-U.S. border, we analyzed qualitative, semi-structured interviews of the lived experiences of threats to reproductive health and rights in relation to policies and practices experienced across phases of migration by migrant women intending to seek safety in the U.S. Among 38 migrant women, threats to reproductive health and rights were pervasive and strongly shaped by the risk environments and unsafe humanitarian conditions experienced during migration and at the Mexico-U.S. border. These included: i) experiences of pervasive sexual violence and exploitation; (ii) unplanned pregnancy, disruptions to family planning, and threats to perinatal health; and (iii) experiences of violence pre- and during migration , and border experiences that increased threats to the health and safety of women and their families. Migrant women seeking safety in the U.S. face significant threats to reproductive health and rights during migration, perpetuated by the risk environments experienced in transit and at the Mexico-U.S. border. There is a need to shift existing migration policies towards sustainable immigration reforms that allow for safe, orderly, and timely migration. • Reproductive health and rights includes the right to reproductive autonomy, to (not) have children, and to parent in safety. • Women seeking safety in the U.S. face threats to reproductive health and rights during migration. • There is a need for sustainable immigration reforms that allow for safe, orderly, and timely migration.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".