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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460152503321

Titolo

The cultural politics of reproduction : migration, health and family making / / edited by Maya Unnithan-Kumar and Sunil K. Khanna

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, [New York] ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-78238-545-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (206 p.)

Disciplina

362.198/40086912

Soggetti

Women immigrants

Motherhood

Family planning

Immigrants - Health and hygiene

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

The Cultural Politics of Reproduction; Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction - Migration and the Politics of Reproduction and Health; Chapter 1 - Migration, Belonging  and the Body that Births; 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'; Chapter 4 - 'That's Not a Religious Thing, That's a Cultural Thing'; Chapter 5 - Health Inequalities and Perceptions of Place; Chapter 6 - Acculturation and Experiences of Post-partum Depression amongst Immigrant Mothers

Chapter 7 - 'A Mother Who Stays but Cannot Provide Is Not as Good'Chapter 8 - 'A City Walla Prefers a Small Family'; Chapter 9 - Restoring the Connection; Notes on Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 healt