ISBN:
9781782385455
Language:
Undetermined
Pages:
206 p.
Edition:
1st edition
Keywords:
Medical Anthropology, Refugee & Migration Studies,
Abstract:
Charting the experiences of internally or externally migrant communities, the volume examines social transformation through the dynamic relationship between movement, reproduction, and health. The chapters examine how healthcare experiences of migrants are not only embedded in their own unique health worldviews, but also influenced by the history, policy, and politics of the wider state systems. The research among migrant communities an understanding of how ideas of reproduction and "cultures of health" travel, how healing, birth and care practices become a result of movement, and how health-related perceptions and reproductive experiences can define migrant belonging and identity.
Description / Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: Migration and the Politics of Reproduction and Health: Tracking Global Flows through Ethnography -- Sunil K. Khanna and Maya Unnithan-Kumar -- Chapter 1. Migration, Belonging and the Body that Births: Pakistani Women in Britain -- Kaveri Qureshi -- Chapter 2. To Be or Not To Be?: Cape Verdean Student Mothers in Portugal -- Elizabeth P. Challinor -- Chapter 3. 'Good Women Stay at Home. Bad Women Go Everywhere': Agency, Sexuality and Self in Sri Lankan Migrant Narratives -- Sajida Z. Ally -- Chapter 4. 'No That's not a Religious Thing, That's a Cultural Thing': Culture in the Provision of Health Services for Bangladeshi Mothers in East London -- Laura Griffith -- Chapter 5. Health Inequalities and Perceptions of Place: Migrant Mothers' Accounts of Birth and Loss in Northwest India -- Maya Unnithan-Kumar -- Chapter 6. Acculturation and Experiences of Postpartum Depression amongst Immigrant Mothers -- Mirabelle E. Fernandes-Paul -- Chapter 7. 'A Mother who Stays but Cannot Provide is not as Good': Migrant Mothers in Hanoi, Vietnam -- Catherine Locke, Nguyen Thi Ngan Hoa and Nguyen Thi Thanh Tam -- Chapter 8. 'A "City-Walla" Prefers a Small Family': Son Preference and Sex Selection among Punjabi Migrant Families in Urban India -- Sunil K. Khanna -- Chapter 9. Restoring the Connection: Aboriginal Midwifery and Relocation for Childbirth in First Nation Communities in Canada -- Rachel Olson -- Bibliography -- Index --
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