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Record Nr.

UNISA996660267003316

Autore

Lonergan Gwyneth

Titolo

Borders, Citizenship, and Pregnancy : Migrant Women's Experiences of Pregnancy and Maternity Care in the UK

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bristol : , : Bristol University Press, , 2025

©2025

ISBN

1-5292-3452-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (167 pages)

Collana

Global Migration and Social Change Series

Disciplina

305.484120941

Soggetti

Women immigrants

Pregnant women - Legal status, laws, etc

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Borders, Citizenship, and Pregnancy: Migrant Women’s Experiences of Pregnancy and Maternity Care in the UK -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Series Editors’ Preface: Bordering and the (Re)production of the ‘Ideal Birthing Citizen’ -- Glossary -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction --   Reproductive justice and stratified reproduction --     Reproduction --     Reproductive justice --     Stratified reproduction --   Citizenship --   Citizenship and reproduction --     Reproduction and social citizenship --     Responsible reproductive citizenship --   Bordering processes --     Situated, proliferating, intensifying bordering processes --     Bordering and reproduction --   Researching migrant women’s experiences of maternity care --     Researching migration in the north of England --   Outline of the book -- 2 Citizenship, Health, and ‘Responsible’ Reproduction --   Introduction --   Defining health citizenship --   The NHS and the gendered and racialized boundaries of health citizenship --     Immigration, the NHS, and the racialized nation state

Sommario/riassunto

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Using the analytical framework of reproductive justice, this book examines migrant women's experiences of pregnancy and maternity care within the broader context of gendered and racialised discourses and policies around health, reproduction and citizenship, austerity and an



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