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…mehr
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.
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.
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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
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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