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.
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The Cultural Politics of Reproduction
Migration, Health and Family Making
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The Cultural Politics of Reproduction
Migration, Health and Family Making
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Table of contents
- 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
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