[{"id":53,"date":"2018-12-11T05:10:48","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T09:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/?p=53"},"modified":"2018-12-11T05:10:48","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T09:10:48","slug":"final-narrative-presentation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/2018\/12\/11\/final-narrative-presentation\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Narrative Presentation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"676\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cy8FzyqySXQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2644,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research","category-sisolson","category-sisolson18"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2644"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":52,"date":"2018-12-07T22:46:50","date_gmt":"2018-12-08T02:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/?p=52"},"modified":"2018-12-07T22:46:50","modified_gmt":"2018-12-08T02:46:50","slug":"research-portfolio-post-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/2018\/12\/07\/research-portfolio-post-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Portfolio Post #9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I met with my faculty mentor, Dr. De Jesus, on Thursday, December 6th for about 30 minutes. We discussed the feasibility of doing a discourse analysis on the Garza v. Hargan case and the implications of the current political climate on my research. [1] In addition, we discussed the intersection of health and migration and how Jane Doe exemplifies this intersection as well as the intersection of immigration and abortion discourses. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">My next steps for my research include finding and systematically organizing data, whether that is more court documents, social media posts about the case, news articles, and\/or the comments on those articles. Another thing that I need to look into is access to NVivo or ATLAS.ti through the library to be able to do keyword and phrase searches of my documents. Dr. De Jesus suggested looking for patterns of phrasing that construct Jane Doe as a criminal and as an innocent minor using this software. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Over break I plan to read through more court documents from the case and try to construct some sort of timeline to clarify the legal process and how that influences the discourses of migration and abortion that Jane Doe exists at the intersection of. I also plan to read more scholarship on migration and health and their potential impacts on one another. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A concern that I have going in to SISU-306 is some confusion over the legal terms used in the court documents. To resolve this issue, I would be interested in talking either to an SIS professor with a law background and\/or a professor at AU\u2019s law school.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[1]\u00a0Garza v. Hargan, On Petition for Rehearing En Banc. United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit No. 17-5236, filed on 24 October 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I met with my faculty mentor, Dr. De Jesus, on Thursday, December 6th for about 30 minutes. We discussed the feasibility of doing a discourse analysis on the Garza v. Hargan case and the implications of the current political climate&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/2018\/12\/07\/research-portfolio-post-9\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2644,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mentorship","category-sisolson","category-sisolson18"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2644"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":50,"date":"2018-11-12T00:08:26","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T04:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/?p=50"},"modified":"2018-11-12T00:08:26","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T04:08:26","slug":"research-portfolio-post-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/2018\/11\/12\/research-portfolio-post-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Portfolio Post #8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am proposing to research the discourses about immigration and reproductive health care in the United States because I want to find out what explains the extreme divisiveness within the US on these issues in order to help my reader understand the experiences of non-native women at the intersection of these discourses.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I propose to analyze various speeches given by politicians on both sides of the political spectrum on both immigration issues and reproductive health and abortion. To start on the immigration side, I will look at a speech given by President Trump on the campaign trail in Arizona, a speech given by President Obama on immigration reform, and Representative-elect Ilhan Omar\u2019s victory speech. [1] As for the reproductive health care side, I will start with an analysis of a speech given by Hillary Clinton to Planned Parenthood Action Fund members and Senator Ted Cruz\u2019s filibuster against the Affordable Care Act. [2] <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I will also analyze documents from three court cases&#8211;Griswold v. Connecticut, Roe v. Wade, and Garza v. Hargan&#8211;as instances of these discourses entering the legal sphere. Garza v. Hargan represents the intersection of these two discourses as a young, undocumented immigrant was denied an abortion by the Trump administration. [3] Notably, Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh was one of three judges on the appeal panel and issued a decision that would have denied Jane Doe her abortion (the decision was eventually reversed by the full appeals court). [4] Another potential area of discourse to explore would be that surrounding Justice Kavanaugh\u2019s controversial appointment. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There are numerous connections between the aforementioned texts. Trump\u2019s immigration speech connects to the Garza v. Hargan case in that it rails against undocumented immigrants. [5] Cruz\u2019s filibuster relates to Roe v. Wade because he refers to abortion as, \u201c&#8230;the murder of innocent, unborn babies\u2026\u201d [6] Omar\u2019s victory speech relates to the plight of Jane Doe in that they are both refugees, although they had extremely different experiences and are labeled very differently by American society. Clinton\u2019s speech refers to both Roe v. Wade and Griswold v. Connecticut as pillars of women\u2019s reproductive rights. [7] <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There is a complicated web of terminology and sentiments in both the debate about immigration and the debate on reproductive health care and abortion. These all create various and sometimes conflicting identities for immigrants, women who seek reproductive health care, and refugees&#8211;identities or labels that change based on political ideology. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[1] \u201cTranscript of Donald Trump\u2019s Immigration Speech,\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The New York Times <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sept 1 2016. &lt;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/09\/02\/us\/politics\/transcript-trump-immigration-speech.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/09\/02\/us\/politics\/transcript-trump-immigration-speech.html<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&gt; (Accessed: Nov. 11, 2018); \u201cTranscript: Obama\u2019s immigration speech,\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Washington Post <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nov 20 2014. &lt;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/transcript-obamas-immigration-speech\/2014\/11\/20\/14ba8042-7117-11e4-893f-86bd390a3340_story.html?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.579478104504\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/transcript-obamas-immigration-speech\/2014\/11\/20\/14ba8042-7117-11e4-893f-86bd390a3340_story.html?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.579478104504<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&gt; (Accessed Nov. 11, 2018); \u201cRep. Ilhan Omar gives victory speech after winning Congressional District 5,\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fox 9 News<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Nov 6 2018. &lt;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox9.com\/news\/371190190-video\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/www.fox9.com\/news\/371190190-video<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&gt; (Accessed: Nov. 11, 2018). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[2] Steffi Badanes. \u201cHillary Clinton Delivers Powerful Speech On Reproductive Justice to Planned Parenthood Action Fund Members,\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Planned Parenthood Action Fund <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">June 23 2016. &lt;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.plannedparenthoodaction.org\/blog\/hillary-clintons-speech-planned-parenthood-action-fund-members\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/www.plannedparenthoodaction.org\/blog\/hillary-clintons-speech-planned-parenthood-action-fund-members<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&gt; (Accessed: Nov. 11, 2018); \u201cTRANSCRIPT: Sen. Ted Cruz\u2019s marathon speech against Obamacare on Sept. 24,\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Washington Post <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sept 25 2013. &lt;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sf\/national\/2013\/09\/25\/transcript-sen-ted-cruzs-filibuster-against-obamacare\/?utm_term=.ab0976d5d9fb\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sf\/national\/2013\/09\/25\/transcript-sen-ted-cruzs-filibuster-against-obamacare\/?utm_term=.ab0976d5d9fb<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&gt; (Accessed: Nov. 11, 2018). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[3] Brigitte Amiri. \u201cBrett Kavanaugh\u2019s One Abortion Case,\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">American Civil Liberties Union <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">July 18 2018. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&lt;<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/blog\/reproductive-freedom\/abortion\/brett-kavanaughs-one-abortion-case\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/blog\/reproductive-freedom\/abortion\/brett-kavanaughs-one-abortion-case<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&gt; (Accessed: Nov. 11, 2018). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[4] <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ibid<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[5] \u201cTranscript of Donald Trump\u2019s Immigration Speech.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[6] \u201cTRANSCRIPT: Sen. Ted Cruz\u2019s marathon speech against Obamacare on Sept. 24.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[7] Badanes, \u201cHillary Clinton Delivers Powerful Speech\u2026\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bibliography<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Amiri, Brigitte. \u201cBrett Kavanaugh\u2019s One Abortion Case,\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">American Civil Liberties Union <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">July 18 2018. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&lt;<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/blog\/reproductive-freedom\/abortion\/brett-kavanaughs-one-abortion-case\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/blog\/reproductive-freedom\/abortion\/brett-kavanaughs-one-abortion-case<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&gt; (Accessed: Nov. 11, 2018). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Badanes, Steffi. \u201cHillary Clinton Delivers Powerful Speech On Reproductive Justice to Planned Parenthood Action Fund Members,\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Planned Parenthood Action Fund <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">June 23 2016. &lt;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.plannedparenthoodaction.org\/blog\/hillary-clintons-speech-planned-parenthood-action-fund-members\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/www.plannedparenthoodaction.org\/blog\/hillary-clintons-speech-planned-parenthood-action-fund-members<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&gt; (Accessed: Nov. 11, 2018). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cTranscript: Obama\u2019s immigration speech,\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Washington Post <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nov 20 2014. &lt;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/transcript-obamas-immigration-speech\/2014\/11\/20\/14ba8042-7117-11e4-893f-86bd390a3340_story.html?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.579478104504\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/transcript-obamas-immigration-speech\/2014\/11\/20\/14ba8042-7117-11e4-893f-86bd390a3340_story.html?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.579478104504<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&gt; (Accessed Nov. 11, 2018). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u201cTranscript of Donald Trump\u2019s Immigration Speech,\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The New York Times <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sept 1 2016. &lt;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/09\/02\/us\/politics\/transcript-trump-immigration-speech.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/09\/02\/us\/politics\/transcript-trump-immigration-speech.html<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&gt; (Accessed: Nov. 11, 2018). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u201cTRANSCRIPT: Sen. Ted Cruz\u2019s marathon speech against Obamacare on Sept. 24,\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Washington Post <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sept 25 2013. &lt;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sf\/national\/2013\/09\/25\/transcript-sen-ted-cruzs-filibuster-against-obamacare\/?utm_term=.ab0976d5d9fb\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sf\/national\/2013\/09\/25\/transcript-sen-ted-cruzs-filibuster-against-obamacare\/?utm_term=.ab0976d5d9fb<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&gt; (Accessed: Nov. 11, 2018).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u201cRep. Ilhan Omar gives victory speech after winning Congressional District 5,\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fox 9 News<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Nov 6 2018. &lt;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox9.com\/news\/371190190-video\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/www.fox9.com\/news\/371190190-video<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&gt; (Accessed: Nov. 11, 2018). <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am proposing to research the discourses about immigration and reproductive health care in the United States because I want to find out what explains the extreme divisiveness within the US on these issues in order to help my reader&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/2018\/11\/12\/research-portfolio-post-8\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2644,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research","category-sisolson","category-sisolson18"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2644"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":48,"date":"2018-10-28T23:56:42","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T03:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/?p=48"},"modified":"2018-10-28T23:56:42","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T03:56:42","slug":"research-portfolio-post-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/2018\/10\/28\/research-portfolio-post-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Portfolio Post #7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The research question I\u2019m leaning towards for my small-n research is: what explains the different abortion laws in Ireland and Malta? Both of these countries have very strong ties to the Roman Catholic church. In Ireland, the 2016 Census indicated that 78.3% of the population identified as Roman Catholic. [1] As for Malta, the 2012 International Religious Freedom Report from the US Department of State indicated that 91% of the population is Roman Catholic. [2] <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Within the Catholic Church, bishops and the Pope have a \u2018divine authority\u2019 not seen in Protestantism that provides that their interpretation of what is and is not moral is the will of Christ. [3] Thus, when the Church teaches that \u201c&#8230;to directly attack unborn life is a grave crime, a sin and a great evil\u201d it is interpreted as the will of Christ that cannot be interfered with under any circumstances. [4] This provides very strong guidance and its influence can be seen in majority-Catholic countries. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">My dependent variable is legal abortion. In this specific instance, it can be operationalized as a dummy variable&#8211;yes abortion is legal or no it is not legal. This is possible when comparing Ireland and Malta because abortion is illegal in Malta under any circumstances. [5] In other cases, it could potentially take values such as \u2018legal,\u2019 \u2018legal under some circumstances,\u2019 or \u2018illegal\u2019 since some countries have laws that allow for abortion under circumstances such as rape, maternal health concerns, and fetal health concerns. [6] The data set that provides information comes from the Center for Reproductive Rights and details the grounds for legal abortion in European countries. [7] <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a landslide referendum this past May, Ireland voted to repeal a constitutional amendment that gave equal rights to both fetuses and mothers. [8] On the other hand, abortion is illegal in Malta under any circumstances. [9] This provides for an interesting comparison given that these are two very Catholic countries with very different abortion laws. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[1] Faith Survey, \u201cIrish Census (2016) Measuring religious adherence in Ireland.\u201d &lt;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/faithsurvey.co.uk\/irish-census.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/faithsurvey.co.uk\/irish-census.html<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&gt; (Accessed Oct. 28 2018). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[2] Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, \u201cMalta 2012 International Religious Freedom Report,\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">US Department of State<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, 1. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[3] Peter J. Riga. \u201cThe Authority of the Catholic Church Over Abortion,\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Linacre Quarterly <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">73, 2 (May 2006), 194. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[4] <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ibid, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">195. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[5] Center for Reproductive Rights, \u201cGround for Legal Abortion in 46 European Countries.\u201d Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution Supplementary Material, November 2017. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[6] <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ibid. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[7] <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ibid. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[8] <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kimiko de Freytas-Tamura. \u201cIreland Votes to End Abortion Ban, in Rebuke to Catholic Conservatism,\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The New York Times, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">May 26, 2018. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[9] Center for Reproductive Rights. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bibliography <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, \u201cMalta 2012 International Religious Freedom Report,\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">US Department of State<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, 1-3. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Center for Reproductive Rights, \u201cGround for Legal Abortion in 46 European Countries.\u201d Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution Supplementary Material, November 2017. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">de Freytas-Tamura, Kimiko. \u201cIreland Votes to End Abortion Ban, in Rebuke to Catholic Conservatism,\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The New York Times. (<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">26 May 2018). <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Faith Survey, \u201cIrish Census (2016) Measuring religious adherence in Ireland.\u201d &lt;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/faithsurvey.co.uk\/irish-census.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/faithsurvey.co.uk\/irish-census.html<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&gt; (Accessed Oct. 28 2018). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Riga, Peter J. \u201cThe Authority of the Catholic Church Over Abortion,\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Linacre Quarterly <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">73, 2 (May 2006), 194-196. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The research question I\u2019m leaning towards for my small-n research is: what explains the different abortion laws in Ireland and Malta? Both of these countries have very strong ties to the Roman Catholic church. In Ireland, the 2016 Census indicated&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/2018\/10\/28\/research-portfolio-post-7\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2644,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research","category-sisolson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2644"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":45,"date":"2018-10-14T14:35:45","date_gmt":"2018-10-14T18:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/?p=45"},"modified":"2018-10-14T14:35:45","modified_gmt":"2018-10-14T18:35:45","slug":"research-portfolio-post-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/2018\/10\/14\/research-portfolio-post-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Portfolio Post #6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The data set that I have chosen comes from the World Bank\u2019s Gender Statistics. It includes data at the country level for a number of statistics that are related to female health. Some of these statistics include adolescent fertility rate, contraceptive prevalence for both any and modern methods, demand for family planning, wanted fertility rate, and more. I have also selected variables that relate to the context in which women are receiving health care such as poverty rates, law mandates paid or unpaid maternity leave, female literacy rates, and more. [1] <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The variables I\u2019ve chosen to focus on are female migrants (% of international migrant stock) as a potential independent variable, adolescent fertility rate (births per 1,000 women ages 15-19) as the dependent variable, and female unemployment, legislation on domestic violence, and population below poverty line as control variables. [2]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Adolescent fertility rates, colloquially known as teenage pregnancy rates, are an indicator of reproductive health as they represent the ability (or lack thereof) of young women to utilize contraception, access reproductive\/prenatal health care, etc. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The variables that fall under the nominal level of measurement are: laws mandate paid or unpaid maternity leave (yes\/no dummy variable) and legislation on domestic violence exists (also a yes\/no dummy variable). [3] There are no data that fall under the ordinal level of measurement. The rest of the data falls under the interval-ratio level of measurement. These include: female migrants (% of international migrant stock), adolescent fertility rate (births per 1,000 women ages 15-19, female unemployment rates, percentage of population below the poverty line, wanted fertility rate, female literacy rates, and contraceptive prevalence&#8211;both any method and modern methods (% of female population aged 15-49 who are married or in union). [4]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The aforementioned data is at the country level and covers the 263 countries and regions The World Bank provides data for. [5] A limitation of this dataset in terms of my research is that it is impossible to differentiate between the experiences of immigrant and native women. Instead, I must rely on immigrant population data and health indicators&#8211;in this case, the adolescent fertility rate&#8211;to explore potential relationships. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[1] \u201cGender Statistics, The World Bank.\u201d Accessed Oct 10, 2018, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/databank.worldbank.org\/data\/reports.aspx?source=gender-statistics#\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">http:\/\/databank.worldbank.org\/data\/reports.aspx?source=gender-statistics#<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[2] <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ibid; <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">CIA World Factbook. \u201cField Listing: Population Below Poverty Line.\u201d <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/library\/publications\/the-world-factbook\/fields\/2046.html#185\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/library\/publications\/the-world-factbook\/fields\/2046.html#185<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (accessed Oct 14, 2018). \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[3] The World Bank. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[4] <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ibid; <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">CIA World Factbook. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[5] The World Bank.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The data set that I have chosen comes from the World Bank\u2019s Gender Statistics. It includes data at the country level for a number of statistics that are related to female health. Some of these statistics include adolescent fertility rate,&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/2018\/10\/14\/research-portfolio-post-6\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2644,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research","category-sisolson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2644"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":43,"date":"2018-10-01T00:05:12","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T04:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/?p=43"},"modified":"2018-10-01T00:05:43","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T04:05:43","slug":"research-portfolio-post-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/2018\/10\/01\/research-portfolio-post-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Portfolio Post #5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I propose to research female access to reproductive healthcare because I want to find out what explains the varying health indicators, such as abortion rates and low-birthweight rates, among immigrant populations in order to help my reader understand the importance of contraceptive education and availability. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In \u201cAbortion rate and contraceptive practices in immigrant and native women in Sweden,\u201d Helstr\u00f6m et al. interviewed women who had requested abortions at the Karolinska Hospital in Stockholm. [1] Their findings established that the number of foreign-born women who requested abortions was larger than what was to be expected given their portion of the population. [2] They also found that immigrant women had less experience with contraceptives and more previous pregnancies and induced abortions that women born in Sweden. [3] Helstr\u00f6m et al.\u2019s findings also indicate that the foreign-born women come from a diverse group of countries, meaning that culture is not as much of a factor as are other classical factors associated with unwanted pregnancy, which a woman is more likely to exhibit if she is an immigrant. [4,5] <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In \u201cSegregation, Nativity, and Health: Reproductive Health Inequalities for Immigrant and Native-Born Black Women in New York City,\u201d Sue C. Grady and Sara McLafferty assessed the relationship between racial residential segregation and low birthweight risk for native-born Black women and immigrant Black women in New York City (NYC). [6] Their findings suggest that, for US-born Black women, segregation was more likely to cause a lower birth weight while for immigrant Black women, their nativity had a much bigger influence than where they currently lived. [7,8] <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cReproductive health differences among Latin American- and US-born young women,\u201d Alexandra Minnis and Nancy Padian compared high-risk sexual behaviors and reproductive health among foreign-born Latinas, US-born Latinas, and US-born non-Latinas in the 15-24 age group. [9] Their study, conducted by interviewing females from reproductive health clinics in the San Francisco Bay Area, found that foreign-born Latinas had a higher median age of first intercourse but they used hormonal contraception and abortion less frequently, so they had a higher risk of pregnancy and childbearing. [10,11] The clash between the cultural values held by immigrant families and norms defined by US-born peers are likely to influence a young, foreign-born woman\u2019s ability to use contraception. [12] Minnis and Padian also discuss the influence of acculturation on young women\u2019s sexual activity, \u201cFemales aged 10-13 years from urban middle schools in northern California classified as less acculturated based on language use were more likely to have an older boyfriend, which was associated with early onset of secual activity and unwanted sexual advances.\u201d [13] <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Each of these studies attributes the variation in health indicators of immigrant women versus native born women to slightly different factors. The location of the population of the studies may make a difference. The lived experiences of both immigrant and native women in Stockholm, New York City, and the San Francisco Bay Area are likely to be quite different. In addition, immigration policies differ by country which would influence the characteristics of the immigrant women residing in each respective country. Moreover, since these studies show a difference in the experiences and health indicators of different populations, more research is needed to continue to identify themes and relationships that influence the access of women to reproductive healthcare. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The United States\u2019 Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) regularly produces Abortion Surveillance reports which document the number and characteristics of women obtaining legal induced abortions using data voluntarily reported from 52 reporting areas that include all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and New York City. [14] This data is broken down by state, maternal age, gestational age, and race\/ethnicity as well as possible given that there is no national standard on data collection and data is reported voluntarily. [15] Since these reports break down the data by race\/ethnicity, they could prove to be useful in obtaining general statistics that can be used to help analyze abortion rates among certain populations or in certain geographical areas. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Another data set that could prove to be useful is a report from the District of Columbia Department of Health\u2019s Center for Policy, Planning, and Evaluation entitled, \u201cReported Pregnancies and Pregnancy Rates in the District of Columbia 2011-2015.\u201d [16] This report includes data on pregnancies, live births, induced abortions, and fetal deaths in DC over the given time frame. [17] Similar to the CDC Abortion Surveillance reports, data reporting is voluntary and the Department of Health does not receive any information on abortions performed in private physicians\u2019 offices. [18] This data set provides information on the overall reproductive health trends in DC that would be helpful to compare against the trends of certain populations within DC. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Figures 4 and 5 of the report show that births to teenage mothers are disproportionately concentrated in Wards 7 and 8. [19, 20] The percentage of the population of Wards 7 and 8 that were foreign-born in 2011 are 2.8% and 2.7%, respectively. [21] This creates a puzzle of sorts because, in Minnis and Padian\u2019s study, foreign-born young women had a higher risk of pregnancy than their US-born counterparts. [22] The Pew Research Center estimates that there are 25,000 unauthorized immigrants in the District of Columbia. [23] There is a lack of data on the reproductive health experiences and indicators on immigrant populations in the District. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It is important to note that obtaining data on undocumented populations can be very difficult. Reed et al. conducted a study on the maternal health of undocumented women in Colorado by merging Medicaid claims data linked to birth certificate data with the Colorado Birth Record for the years in question. [24] Since undocumented women can qualify for emergency Medicaid coverage for labor and delivery services, it is possible to utilize this data in conjunction with the birth certificate data to identify important maternal health information without identifying any individual patient. [25] Another study conducted in Switzerland was able to obtain information from undocumented populations by conducting surveys at a health clinic that is well known in the undocumented community. [26] <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reproductive health care encompasses contraceptives and abortion, but also obstetrics and gynecology. Different populations have different experiences with obtaining reproductive health care and the information needed to make informed sexual decisions. Understanding the driving factors behind this disparity would allow for more informed policies from both government officials and health care professionals. This is a topic area that disproportionately affects women\u2019s everyday lives and deserves more research on to further promote gender equality. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">General Question: What explains the disparity in reproductive health indicators between immigrant and native female populations? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Specific Question: What explains the increase in teen pregnancies in Wards 7 and 8 in DC despite the low foreign-born populations?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Footnotes:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[1] Lotti Helstr\u00f6m et al. \u201cAbortion rate and contraceptive practices in immigrant and native women in Sweden,\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Scandinavian Journal of Public Health <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">31, 6 (December 2003), 405-410. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[2] <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ibid, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">405. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[3] <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ibid. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[4] <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ibid. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[5] <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ibid<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, 410. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[6] Sue C. Grady and Sara McLafferty. \u201cSegregation, Nativity, and Health: Reproductive Health Inequalities for Immigrant and native-born Black Women in New York City,\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Urban Geography <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">28, 4 (2007), 377. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[7] <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ibid<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, 391. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[8] <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ibid<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, 392. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[9] Alexandra Minnis and Nancy Padian. \u201cReproductive health differences among Latin American- and US-born young women,\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Journal of Urban Health <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">78, 4 (December 2001), 627. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[10] <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ibid<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[11] <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ibid<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, 633-634. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[12] <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ibid<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, 634. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[13] <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ibid<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, 635. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[14] Tara Jatlaoui et al. \u201cAbortion Surveillance&#8211;United States, 2014,\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">66, 24 (November 2017), 1. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[15] <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ibid<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[16] Department of Health Center for Policy, Planning, and Evaluation,<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Reported Pregnancies and Pregnancy Rates in the District of Columbia 2011-2015, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nikhil Roy. (District of Columbia: Government of the District of Columbia, 2017), 1-22. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[17] <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ibid<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, 1. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[18] <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ibid<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[19] <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ibid<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, 13. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[20] <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ibid<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, 14. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[21] District of Columbia Office of Planning. \u201cDistrict of Columbia Foreign-Born Population: 2011,\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">District of Columbia State Data Center Fact Sheet, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Minwuyelet Azimeraw et al. (2011). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[22] Minnis and Padian, 633-634. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[23] Pew Research Center. \u201cEstimated unauthorized immigrant population, by state, 2014,\u201d &lt;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewhispanic.org\/interactives\/unauthorized-immigrants\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">http:\/\/www.pewhispanic.org\/interactives\/unauthorized-immigrants\/<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&gt; (Accessed: 9\/30\/18). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[24] Mary Reed et al. \u201cBirth outcomes in Colorado\u2019s undocumented immigrant population,\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">BMC Public Health <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">5, 1 (January 2005), 100-107. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[25] <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ibid<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, 102. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[26] Hans Wolff et al. \u201cUndocumented migrants lack access to pregnancy care and prevention,\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">BMC Public Health <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">8, 1 (March 2008), 2. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bibliography:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Department of Health Center for Policy, Planning, and Evaluation,<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Reported Pregnancies and Pregnancy Rates in the District of Columbia 2011-2015, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nikhil Roy. (District of Columbia: Government of the District of Columbia, 2017), 1-22. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">District of Columbia Office of Planning. \u201cDistrict of Columbia Foreign-Born Population: 2011,\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">District of Columbia State Data Center Fact Sheet, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Minwuyelet Azimeraw et al. (2011). <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Grady, Sue C. \u00a0and Sara McLafferty. \u201cSegregation, Nativity, and Health: Reproductive Health Inequalities for Immigrant and native-born Black Women in New York City,\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Urban Geography <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">28, 4 (2007), 377-397. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Helstr\u00f6m, Lotti et al. \u201cAbortion rate and contraceptive practices in immigrant and native women in Sweden,\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Scandinavian Journal of Public Health <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">31, 6 (December 2003), 405-410. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jatlaoui, Tara et al. \u201cAbortion Surveillance&#8211;United States, 2014,\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">66, 24 (November 2017), 1-44. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pew Research Center. \u201cEstimated unauthorized immigrant population, by state, 2014,\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pew Research Center, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">November 3, 2016 &lt;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewhispanic.org\/interactives\/unauthorized-immigrants\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">http:\/\/www.pewhispanic.org\/interactives\/unauthorized-immigrants\/<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&gt; (Accessed: 9\/30\/18). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reed, Mary et al. \u201cBirth outcomes in Colorado\u2019s undocumented immigrant population,\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">BMC Public Health <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">5, 1 (January 2005), 100-107.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wolff, Hans et al. \u201cUndocumented migrants lack access to pregnancy care and prevention,\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">BMC Public Health <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">8, 1 (March 2008), 1-10. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I propose to research female access to reproductive healthcare because I want to find out what explains the varying health indicators, such as abortion rates and low-birthweight rates, among immigrant populations in order to help my reader understand the importance&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/2018\/10\/01\/research-portfolio-post-5\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2644,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research","category-sisolson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2644"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":40,"date":"2018-09-24T02:53:30","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T02:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/?p=40"},"modified":"2018-09-24T02:53:30","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T02:53:30","slug":"research-portfolio-post-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/2018\/09\/24\/research-portfolio-post-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Portfolio Post #4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In \u201cSegregation, Nativity, and Health: Reproductive Health Inequalities for Immigrant and native-born Black Women in New York City,\u201d Sue C. Grady and Sara McLafferty analyze the relationship between racial residential segregation and low birthweight risk for native-born Black women and immigrant Black women in New York City (NYC). [1] Low birthweight is an important indicator of the health of both mother and child. [2] They claim that native-born Black women are more likely to have children with low birthweights if they live in racially segregated neighborhoods. [3] For foreign-born Black women, individual risk factors&#8211;such as where the women were born&#8211;had a bigger influence than segregation. [4] This study was conducted through statistical analysis of data collected by the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene in 2000. [5] The dependent variable is low birthweight and the independent variables were split into two categories&#8211;level one variables describe individual risk factors and attributes and level two describes the characteristics of the neighborhood the mother lives in. [6] The data used to answer the question included rates of segregation (from census data), low birthweight percentages, country of origin (for foreign-born women), and poverty levels.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In \u201cThe Importance of Social Context in Understanding and Promoting Low-Income Immigrant Women\u2019s Health,\u201d Dr. Maria de Jesus takes a more interpretivist approach to a similar issue. Through interviews with female Cape Verdean health promoters, De Jesus identified six salient themes about the social context in which women access healthcare: \u201ccommunity and domestic violence, loss and isolation, economic injustice, immigration-related issues and abuse, unequal gender-based power relations, and cultural taboos.\u201d [7]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">These two sources represent different perspectives of factors that influence women\u2019s access to healthcare. Grady and McLafferty\u2019s study looks for a causal relationship to explain the difference in low birthweight rates in different populations of Black women in New York City while De Jesus\u2019 study seeks to explain the context in which immigrant Cape Verdean women in Massachusetts get medical care. In order to fully understand the experiences of immigrant women in the United States as they try to access healthcare, it is important to note the factors that influence this subset of the population. These sources, by looking at both the context and the outcomes provide a bigger picture in which a puzzle starts to emerge&#8211;what explains the experiences of immigrant women in accessing reproductive healthcare? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">These sources will help to inform my research moving forward in that they provide examples of how this puzzle can be examined with very different methodologies but still come to valid conclusions. In addition, they have provided insight into the experiences of certain immigrant populations in other major cities in the US, which may prove valuable should I choose to focus on Central American immigrant women in DC. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[1] Sue C. Grady and Sara McLafferty. \u201cSegregation, Nativity, and Health: Reproductive Health Inequalities for Immigrant and native-born Black Women in New York City,\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Urban Geography <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">28, 4 (2007), 377. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[2] <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ibid, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">378. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[3] <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ibid, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">391. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[4] <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ibid, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">392. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[5] <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ibid, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">382. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[6] <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ibid. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[7] Maria De Jesus. \u201cThe Importance of Social Context in Understanding and Promoting Low-Income Immigrant Women\u2019s Health,\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">20, 1 (February 2009), 90. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bibliography <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">De Jesus, Maria . \u201cThe Importance of Social Context in Understanding and Promoting Low-Income Immigrant Women\u2019s Health,\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">20, 1 (February 2009), 90-97.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Grady, Sue C. \u00a0and Sara McLafferty. \u201cSegregation, Nativity, and Health: Reproductive Health Inequalities for Immigrant and native-born Black Women in New York City,\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Urban Geography <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">28, 4 (2007), 377-397. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In \u201cSegregation, Nativity, and Health: Reproductive Health Inequalities for Immigrant and native-born Black Women in New York City,\u201d Sue C. Grady and Sara McLafferty analyze the relationship between racial residential segregation and low birthweight risk for native-born Black women and&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/2018\/09\/24\/research-portfolio-post-4\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2644,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research","category-sisolson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2644"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":37,"date":"2018-09-17T02:21:38","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T02:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/?p=37"},"modified":"2018-09-17T02:21:38","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T02:21:38","slug":"research-portfolio-post-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/2018\/09\/17\/research-portfolio-post-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Portfolio Post #3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The concept of ontology in social science research is how a researcher conceptualizes their world. It asks: do they think that social phenomena are consistent and stable across time and situation, or do they think that social phenomena are constructed by its participants? [1] These guiding ideas about how social phenomena even occur shape the way researchers determine what knowledge is out there, what they are able to know. Objectivists take the stance that social phenomena exist beyond the actors, that they are enduring and stable and will occur despite societal differences. [2] Constructivists, on the other hand, believe that the world is socially constructed and, thus, social phenomena does not exist beyond the individuals that engage in it. [3] The constructivist stance means that social science researchers cannot ever fully extricate themselves from the phenomena they are researching. This is not necessarily a negative thing, just something that must be noted. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Methodology is the choices that a researcher makes in order to collect and create knowledge. It is the reasoning for choosing certain methods&#8211;specific tools used for research and analysis&#8211;to conduct a study. [4] Like ontology, methodology greatly affects the outcomes of a study. Ranging from a neopositivist statistical analysis to an interpretive discourse analysis, the methodology of a study determines the manner in which the information is presented and analyzed. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As a researcher, I don\u2019t think that I can truly be an objective observer of the social world. Researchers participate in the social world, their sole purpose is not to sit in a room and conduct research at all times. In their book <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Interpretive Research Design: Concepts and Processes, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Peregrine Schwartz-Shea and Dvora Yanow explain the interpretivist notion of humans as agents, not objects, who actively construct their societies. [5] Whether they know it or not, researchers participate in this construction and all of their prior knowledge, experiences, beliefs, etc. impact the way they approach a study. It&#8217;s like the idea that you can\u2019t ever truly observe a phenomenon because the simple act of your observation inherently changes the phenomenon itself. To give a more concrete example, say the boss tries to observe their employees, the employees will (in theory) be more on task and productive because their boss is watching them. This means that their boss is unable to observe their \u201cnormal\u201d behavior. If I take an interpretivist approach in my research, I will have to make sure that my influence on the study proves to enrich the contextualization rather than bais it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I think that research can be conducted on and make knowledge claims about almost anything as long as there is solid methodology behind it. At first glance, it seems as though research can only make claims about things that can be proven with statistics or case studies, but when we look at the interpretivist side of research, we see that there are still very valid claims made by completely different methodology. Take, for example, Lisa Wedeen\u2019s article on symbolic politics in Syria. [6] Wedeen explains the way Asad retains control over Syria through the story of M, a \u201cfictional narrative of a purportedly true event.\u201d [7] The details of M\u2019s story aren\u2019t crucial to my explanation. What is crucial is that Wedeen uses this \u2018fictional narrative\u2019 to explain the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">meaning<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of individual participation in Asad\u2019s cult of personality&#8211;individuals pretending they believe the rhetoric, even when they don\u2019t. [8] Wedeen\u2019s article serves as an example of a critical piece of research that explains more than just causal relationships, but the meaning behind the actions of a populace. This leads me to believe that social science research can make claims about any phenomena in the social world as long as those claims are thoroughly supported and have a basis in reputable methodology. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[1] <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cP<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">hilosophy of Science\u201d (Kaltura, 2017), accessed August 30<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, 2018, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blackboard.american.edu\/webapps\/blackboard\/content\/listContent.jsp?course_id=_171974_1&amp;content_id=_4156351_1&amp;mode=reset\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/blackboard.american.edu\/webapps\/blackboard\/content\/listContent.jsp?course_id=_171974_1&amp;content_id=_4156351_1&amp;mode=reset<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[2] <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ibid. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[3] <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ibid. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[4] <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ibid. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[5] Peregrine Schwartz-Shea and Dvora Yanow. \u201cStarting From Meaning\u201d in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Interpretive Research Design: Concepts and Processes, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(New York: Routledge, 2012), 46. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[6] Lisa Wedeen. \u201cActing &#8220;As If&#8221;: Symbolic Politics and Social Control in Syria,\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Comparative Studies in Society and History <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">40, no. 3 (July 1998), 503-523. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[7] <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ibid, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">504. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[8] <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ibid, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">506. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bibliography<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cPhilosophy of Science.\u201d Kaltura, 2017. Accessed August 30th, 2018. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0https:\/\/blackboard.american.edu\/webapps\/blackboard\/content\/listContent.jsp?course_id= \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0_171974_1&amp;content_id=_4156351_1&amp;mode=reset.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Schwartz-Shea, Peregrine and Dvora Yanow. \u201cStarting from Meaning\u201d in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Interpretive Research Design: Concepts and Processes, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">45-53. New York: Routledge, 2021. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wedeen, Lisa. \u201cActing \u201cAs If\u201d: Symbolic Politics and Social Control in Syria,\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Comparative Studies in Society and History <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">40, no. 3 (July 1998), 503-523. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The concept of ontology in social science research is how a researcher conceptualizes their world. It asks: do they think that social phenomena are consistent and stable across time and situation, or do they think that social phenomena are constructed&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/2018\/09\/17\/research-portfolio-post-3\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2644,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research","category-sisolson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2644"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":36,"date":"2018-09-10T23:11:49","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T23:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/?p=36"},"modified":"2018-09-10T23:11:49","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T23:11:49","slug":"research-portfolio-post-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/2018\/09\/10\/research-portfolio-post-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Portfolio Post #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I met with my faculty mentor, Prof. Maria De Jesus, on Thursday, September 6th and we met for about 30 minutes. We discussed my research interests and the best ways to narrow down my research project to a more feasible size. In order to do so, we discussed the need to focus on the experiences of a specific population of women when it comes to access to reproductive health care&#8211;potentially Central American immigrant women in the District of Columbia. We discussed the importance of doing extensive background reading and Prof. De Jesus suggested a couple areas of scholarship that would be beneficial to my research. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>We discussed the importance of understanding the history of the Central American region when focusing on the experiences of these immigrant women in DC. Studying the violence that occurs, especially in what\u2019s known as the \u2018Northern Triangle\u2019, or Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala, provides context for the lives which these women have led thus far. [1] Prof. De Jesus sent me an article written by Rebecca J. Williams on the subject that should provide some much-needed insight into the conditions in the region that have forced many to flee. [2]<\/p>\n<p>Another area of scholarship that applies to my research is the social context of health and the determining factors that influence access to health care&#8211;the social determinants of health. [3] Prof. De Jesus sent me an article from the World Health Organization detailing the specific processes that contribute to this phenomenon. [4]<\/p>\n<p>Moving forward, I am slightly concerned about narrowing down my research too early. I\u2019m not exactly sure if this is the way I want to go with my research. I think that these fears will be alleviated once I do more background reading and narrow down my research puzzle.<\/p>\n<p>My next steps include an in-depth reading of the articles and other documents that Prof. De Jesus sent me, scheduling another meeting with her to further discuss next steps, and continue to find more previous scholarship on my research topic.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[1] \u00a0United States Agency for International Development, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Youth Violence and Citizen Security in Central America\u2019s Northern Triangle<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Rebecca J. Williams. (The University of Florida: 2016), ii. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[2] <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ibid. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[3] The World Health Organization, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A Conceptual Framework for Action on the Social Determinants of Health: Social Determinants of Health Discussion Paper 2, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">1. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[4] <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ibid. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bibliography <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">United States Agency for International Development, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Youth Violence and Citizen Security in Central America\u2019s Northern Triangle<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. By Rebecca J. Williams. The University of Florida, 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The World Health Organization, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A Conceptual Framework for Action on the Social Determinants of Health: Social Determinants of Health Discussion Paper 2. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I met with my faculty mentor, Prof. Maria De Jesus, on Thursday, September 6th and we met for about 30 minutes. We discussed my research interests and the best ways to narrow down my research project to a more feasible&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/2018\/09\/10\/research-portfolio-post-2\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2644,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mentorship","category-sisolson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2644"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":33,"date":"2018-09-03T00:08:32","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T00:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/?p=33"},"modified":"2018-09-10T20:42:43","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T20:42:43","slug":"research-portfolio-post-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/2018\/09\/03\/research-portfolio-post-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Portfolio Post #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Generally, my primary research interest is looking into the ways access to health care affects women politically, socially, and economically. Lately, I\u2019ve been leaning towards looking at the debates around reproductive health care and potentially doing some sort of discourse analysis in that area since the debate is so heated. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This topic area is very important to me personally, but is also something that is at the forefront of a lot of political discussions happening in the US and around the world right now. It is also amenable to further research since there are women across the globe with varying levels of access to healthcare, cultural norms, and laws governing access. The broad significance of this topic is inherent, women should have the same rights and opportunities as men but these may be limited if they are not able to access the crucial health care they need. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I don\u2019t have a specific puzzle in mind just yet, but I think that something that may come up as I continue my research journey is the challenge of promoting better reproductive health care in countries with more conservative or theocratic governments. I believe the cultural aspects of this debate will prove to be crucial. The cultural nuances will be important to note so as to properly analyze the factors that attribute to healthcare access or the lack thereof. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Something I\u2019ve read that has peaked my interest in this topic is an article, written by Suman Saurabh, Sonali Sarkar, and Dhruv K. Pandey in the Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, about the impact of female literacy rates on birth and infant mortality rates in India [1].<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The article proposes that educated women make more informed reproductive and healthcare decisions and that \u201cfemale literacy is relatively highly important for both population stabilization and better infant health [2].<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> After reading this article, I became curious about how the reverse of this phenomenon might act. Would access to reproductive health care improve women\u2019s education and other parts of her life? I am interested to see how the debate about reproductive health care impacts this and I am curious to explore this phenomenon more as I continue on the research process. <\/span><br \/>\nNotes<\/p>\n<p>[1]\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Suman Saurabh, Sonali Sarkar, and Dhruv K. Pandey. \u201cFemale Literacry Rate is a Better Predictor of Birth Rate and Infant Mortality Rate in India,\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2, 4 (Oct-Dec 2013), 349-353.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[2]\u00a0<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ibid<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bibliography <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Saurabh, Suman, Sonali Sarkar, and Dhruv K. Pandey. \u201cFemale Literacy Rate is a Better Predictor of Birth Rate and Infant Mortality Rate in India\u201d in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">349-353. 2013. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Generally, my primary research interest is looking into the ways access to health care affects women politically, socially, and economically. Lately, I\u2019ve been leaning towards looking at the debates around reproductive health care and potentially doing some sort of discourse&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/2018\/09\/03\/research-portfolio-post-1\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2644,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research","category-sisolson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2644"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edspace.american.edu\/meganross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}]