04116nam 2200721 450 991078714320332120220621201131.01-78238-545-210.1515/9781782385455(CKB)3710000000260982(EBL)1644374(SSID)ssj0001349769(PQKBManifestationID)12433435(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001349769(PQKBWorkID)11403091(PQKB)11152210(Au-PeEL)EBL1644374(CaPaEBR)ebr10956097(CaONFJC)MIL655463(OCoLC)896840188(DE-B1597)636788(DE-B1597)9781782385455(MiAaPQ)EBC1644374(EXLCZ)99371000000026098220141029h20152015 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe cultural politics of reproduction migration, health and family making /edited by Maya Unnithan-Kumar and Sunil K. KhannaNew York, [New York] ;Oxford, [England] :Berghahn Books,2015.©20151 online resource1-322-24183-X 1-78238-544-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction. Migration and the Politics of Reproduction and Health: Tracking Global Flows through Ethnography -- Chapter 1 Migration, Belonging and the Body that Births: Pakistani Women in Britain -- 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’ Agency, Sexuality and Self in Sri Lankan Migrant Narratives -- Chapter 4 ‘That’s Not a Religious Thing, That’s a Cultural Thing’ Culture in the Provision of Health Services for Bangladeshi Mothers in East London -- Chapter 5 Health Inequalities and Perceptions of Place: Migrant Mothers’ Accounts of Birth and Loss in North-West India -- Chapter 6 Acculturation and Experiences of Post-partum Depression amongst Immigrant Mothers: Cultural Competency in Medicine -- Chapter 7 ‘A Mother Who Stays but Cannot Provide Is Not as Good’ Migrant Mothers in Hanoi, Vietnam -- Chapter 8 ‘A City Walla Prefers a Small Family’ Son Preference and Sex Selection among Punjabi Migrant Families in Urban India -- Chapter 9 Restoring the Connection: Aboriginal Midwifery and Relocation for Childbirth in First Nation Communities in Canada -- Notes on Contributors -- IndexCharting 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.Women immigrantsMotherhoodFamily planningImmigrantsHealth and hygieneChildfree choiceMigrant laborCultureWomen immigrants.Motherhood.Family planning.ImmigrantsHealth and hygiene.Childfree choice.Migrant labor.Culture.362.198/40086912Unnithan-Kumar Maya1961-Khanna Sunil K.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910787143203321The cultural politics of reproduction3801013UNINA