IDA
Mount Holyoke College Institutional Digital Archive
The Institutional Digital Archive (IDA) is a service that collects, preserves, and showcases the scholarly work of MHC's faculty and students. Some materials are restricted to the campus community and require an MHC login to access.
Communities in IDA
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- This is an archive of United States immigration sanctuary policies that were passed from 2001-2014. The archive contains four main collections organized by policy type: Executive Orders; Ordinances; Policing Policies; and Resolutions. There are 234 policies in the archive. Welcome!
- This community houses data collected on campus as part of the Campus Living Laboratory Initiative. Data include those collected from environmental monitoring stations, as a result of faculty and student independent projects, or data collected in labs or other collection exercises. Datasets are presented with varying levels of access as described by the party responsible for uploading the data.
- Repositories for retaining data and scholarly research of the Mount Holyoke College faculty
- Repositories for retaining data, scholarly research, and academic output of Mount Holyoke College students
Recent Submissions
With love, Holyoke
Garcia, Jasmine; Guevara, Pilar Eguez
Una receta para un legado
Godinez, Angelina; Guevara, Pilar Eguez
Food Justice in Holyoke
Reece, Nizhoni; Guevara, Pilar Eguez
Blessed Hands
Alegria, Mimi; Guevara, Pilar Eguez
A Crisis of Bodies at the Border: The Weaponization of Reproductive Injustice against the Latinx Body at the US-Mexico Border
Siegel, Erin; Fernandez-Anderson, Cora
My project utilizes reproductive justice frameworks to critically analyze and critique US immigration policy. I use primary source historical records, interviews, and scholarly secondhand sources to shape my portrayal of the realities at the border. I explore the processes before, during, and after border crossings to guide the reader through the journeys of immigrant women. In this thesis I make some broader connections between unrest about the border and reproductive justice crises we see today, especially in a post-Dobbs era. I argue that controlling the bodies and the reproductive lives of immigrants is a covert tool employed by the state to weaponize discrimination and to render vulnerable populations invisible. To begin, I will look at the prejudices embedded in current policy and how those tie directly to reproductive harm. For example, I’ll look at the histories tying deviant sexualities to racial identities and how that shapes efforts to control reproduction. After establishing the greater motivations behind immigration prejudice, I will take the audience on a journey from before the border to post-migration, detailing all the points where reproductive injustice takes place. Finally, using the critiques of the current system, I explore recommendations for how a different set of border policies can better ensure reproductive rights.