Racialization and Reproduction: Asian Immigrants and California's Twentieth-Century Eugenic Sterilization Program.

ABSTRACT: During the twentieth century, state health authorities in California recommended sterilization for over 20,000 individuals held in state institutions. Asian immigrants occupied a marginalized position in racial, gender, and class hierarchies in California at the height of its eugenic sterilization program. Scholars have documented the disproportionate sterilization of other racialized groups, but little research exists connecting the racist, gendered implementation of Asian immigration restriction to the racism and sexism inherent in eugenics. This study examines patterns of coercive sterilization in Asian immigrants in California, hypothesizing higher institutionalization and sterilization rates among Asian-born compared with other foreign- and US-born individuals. We used complete count

SUBMITTER: Kaniecki M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10569381 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature