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Charting the experiences of migrant communities, the volume examines the relationship between movement, reproduction, & health. Informed by research in Europe, Britain, South & East Asia, Canada & Northern America, the chapters examine how healthcare experiences of migrants are embedded in their own worldviews & influenced by wider state systems.
List 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
About the author
Maya Unnithan-Kumar is Professor of Social and Medical Anthropology at the University of Sussex. Her research interests are in the anthropology of the body, childbirth and infertility, reproductive technologies, mobility, health inequalities and human rights. Her recent research was funded by the Economic and Social Sciences Research Council focused on State and civil society understandings of reproductive rights and their application to health policy and programs in India.
Sunil K. Khanna is a Professor of International Health in the College of Public Health and Human Sciences at Oregon State University. His recent research project addresses the new reproductive technology for the purpose of prenatal sex determination and sex selection in urbanizing north India. He is the author of Fetal/Fatal Knowledge: New Reproductive Technologies and Family-Building Strategies in India.
Summary
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.
