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Book Synopsis 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.
Trade Review “This is a welcome addition to the literature on both migration and reproduction, bringing together in interesting ways the causes and consequences of forcible or agentive movement upon birth practices, plans, and outcomes…Overall, the chapters complement each other… providing a nice mix of ethnographic breadth and detailed analysis.” · Perveez Mody, King’s College, Cambridge
“The phenomena that the volume addresses are complex, multi-faceted, timely and cutting-edge… Not only are these debates at the centre of anthropological inquiry, the strength of this volume lies precisely in its utility for both the humanities and the social sciences, while the writing is clear and appropriate for both advanced undergraduates and postgraduate students.” · Anastasia Christou, Middlesex University
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
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