The Cultural Politics of Reproduction : : Migration, Health and Family Making / / ed. by Maya Unnithan-Kumar, Sunil K. Khanna.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Ally, Sajida Z.,; Challinor, Elizabeth P.,; Fernandes-Paul, Mirabelle E.,; Griffith, Laura,; Hoa, Nguyen Thi Ngan,; Khanna, Sunil K.,; Locke, Catherine,; Olson, Rachel,; Qureshi, Kaveri,; Tam, Nguyen Thi Thanh,; Unnithan-Kumar, Maya,
• HerausgeberIn: Khanna, Sunil K.,; Unnithan-Kumar, Maya,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (206 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction. Migration and the Politics of Reproduction and Health: Tracking Global Flows through Ethnography -- Chapter 1 Migration, Belonging and the Body that Births: Pakistani Women in Britain -- Chapter 2 To Be or Not to Be? Cape Verdean Student Mothers in Portugal -- Chapter 3 ‘Good Women Stay at Home, Bad Women Go Everywhere’ Agency, Sexuality and Self in Sri Lankan Migrant Narratives -- Chapter 4 ‘That’s Not a Religious Thing, That’s a Cultural Thing’ Culture in the Provision of Health Services for Bangladeshi Mothers in East London -- Chapter 5 Health Inequalities and Perceptions of Place: Migrant Mothers’ Accounts of Birth and Loss in North-West India -- Chapter 6 Acculturation and Experiences of Post-partum Depression amongst Immigrant Mothers: Cultural Competency in Medicine -- Chapter 7 ‘A Mother Who Stays but Cannot Provide Is Not as Good’ Migrant Mothers in Hanoi, Vietnam -- Chapter 8 ‘A City Walla Prefers a Small Family’ Son Preference and Sex Selection among Punjabi Migrant Families in Urban India -- Chapter 9 Restoring the Connection: Aboriginal Midwifery and Relocation for Childbirth in First Nation Communities in Canada -- Notes on Contributors -- Index