{"product_id":"the-cultural-politics-of-reproduction-migration-health-and-family-making-9781782385448","title":"The Cultural Politics of Reproduction: Migration,","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tCharting 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“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.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e  ·  Perveez Mody\u003c\/strong\u003e, King’s College, Cambridge\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cbr\u003e \t“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.”\u003cstrong\u003e  ·  Anastasia Christou\u003c\/strong\u003e, Middlesex University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e \tList of Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction: \u003c\/strong\u003eMigration and the Politics of Reproduction and Health: Tracking Global Flows through Ethnography\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eSunil K. Khanna and Maya Unnithan-Kumar\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1. \u003c\/strong\u003eMigration, Belonging and the Body that Births: Pakistani Women in Britain\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eKaveri Qureshi\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/strong\u003e To Be or Not To Be?: Cape Verdean Student Mothers in Portugal\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eElizabeth P. Challinor\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/strong\u003e ‘Good Women Stay at Home. Bad Women Go Everywhere’: Agency, Sexuality and Self in Sri Lankan Migrant Narratives\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eSajida Z. Ally\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4. \u003c\/strong\u003e‘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\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eLaura Griffith\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/strong\u003e Health Inequalities and Perceptions of Place: Migrant Mothers’ Accounts of Birth and Loss in Northwest India\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMaya Unnithan-Kumar\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/strong\u003e Acculturation and Experiences of Postpartum Depression amongst Immigrant Mothers\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMirabelle E. Fernandes-Paul    \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/strong\u003e ‘A Mother who Stays but Cannot Provide is not as Good’: Migrant Mothers in Hanoi, Vietnam\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eCatherine Locke, Nguyen Thi Ngan Hoa and Nguyen Thi Thanh Tam\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/strong\u003e ‘A “City-Walla” Prefers a Small Family’: Son Preference and Sex Selection among Punjabi Migrant Families in Urban India\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eSunil K. Khanna\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 9. \u003c\/strong\u003eRestoring the Connection: Aboriginal Midwifery and Relocation for Childbirth in First Nation Communities in Canada\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eRachel Olson\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tBibliography\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042218574167,"sku":"9781782385448","price":89.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781782385448.jpg?v=1750953491","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-cultural-politics-of-reproduction-migration-health-and-family-making-9781782385448","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}