Migrant women’s fertility—or more precisely, non-white migrant women’s fertility—has long been the subject of fear and anger in the United States. This negativity is evident in attitudes, discourse, and policies around immigration, as seen in terms such as “anchor baby,” debates over birthright citizenship, and caricatured ideas of migrant women’s reproduction and sexuality. In 2018, the Trump administration put in place a number of policies targeting migrant fertility in various ways, among them family separation at the U.S.-Mexico border, and the denial of abortions to detained immigrant teens. This article explores the apparent contradiction of ripping immigrant families apart, while at the same time essentially forcing the production of new non-white citizens. Drawing on feminist geographic and queer studies theoretical lenses, the article identifies three fertile figures constructed in contemporary discourse around immigration: the breeder, the anchor baby, and the bad parent. This approach provides a window into the enduring white, patriarchal, heteronormative nationalism particularly evident at this point in U.S. history. It also illuminates ways in which these policies collectively work to erase the United States’ colonial past and present, and the centrality of racial hierarchies to contemporary global capitalism.

长期以来，移徙妇女的生育能力-或更确切地说，非白人移民妇女的生育能力-一直是美国恐惧和愤怒的主题。这种消极态度在有关移民的态度，言论和政策中很明显，例如“锚婴儿”，关于生育权的辩论以及对移民妇女的生殖和性的讽刺意味的看法。2018年，特朗普政府以各种方式制定了针对移民生育的多项政策，其中包括在美墨边境的家庭分居以及拒绝对被拘留的青少年移民进行堕胎。本文探讨了剥夺移民家庭的明显矛盾，同时又从根本上强迫新的非白人公民的生产。借鉴女权主义的地理和酷儿研究的理论视角，这篇文章指出了当代关于移民的话语中构筑的三个肥沃的人物：繁殖者，锚生婴儿和坏父母。这种方法为了解持久的白人，父权制，异规范的民族主义提供了一个窗口，这在美国历史的这一点上尤为明显。它还阐明了这些政策共同作用以消除美国殖民地过去和现在的方式，以及种族等级制度在当代全球资本主义中的中心地位。