The Cultural Politics of Reproduction: Migration, Health and Family Making

Published by Berghahn Books 2014

The Cultural Politics of Reproduction

Migration, Health and Family Making

Edited by: Maya Unnithan-Kumar and Sunil K. Khanna

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782385455

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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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Maya Unnithan-Kumar is Professor of Social and Medical Anthropology at the University of Sussex. Her research interests are in the anthropology of the body, childbirth and infertility, reproductive technologies, mobility, health inequalities and human rights. Her recent research was funded by the Economic and Social Sciences Research Council focused on State and civil society understandings of reproductive rights and their application to health policy and programs in India.

Sunil K. Khanna is a Professor of International Health in the College of Public Health and Human Sciences at Oregon State University. His recent research project addresses the new reproductive technology for the purpose of prenatal sex determination and sex selection in urbanizing north India. He is the author of Fetal/Fatal Knowledge: New Reproductive Technologies and Family-Building Strategies in India.

Maya Unnithan-Kumar is Professor of Social and Medical Anthropology at the University of Sussex. Her research interests are in the anthropology of the body, childbirth and infertility, reproductive technologies, mobility, health inequalities and human rights. Her recent research was funded by the Economic and Social Sciences Research Council focused on State and civil society understandings of reproductive rights and their application to health policy and programs in India.

Reviews

“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.” · Perveez Mody, King’s College, Cambridge

“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.” · Anastasia Christou, Middlesex University

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
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Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Introduction. Migration and the Politics of Reproduction and Health: Tracking Global Flows through Ethnography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1 Migration, Belonging and the Body that Births: Pakistani Women in Britain Kaveri Qureshi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	14
Chapter 2 To Be or Not to Be? Cape Verdean Student Mothers in Portugal Elizabeth P. Challinor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
Chapter 3 ‘Good Women Stay at Home, Bad Women Go Everywhere’ Agency, Sexuality and Self in Sri Lankan Migrant Narratives Sajida Z. Ally Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	50
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 Laura Griffith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
Chapter 5 Health Inequalities and Perceptions of Place: Migrant Mothers’ Accounts of Birth and Loss in North-West India Maya Unnithan-Kumar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
Chapter 6 Acculturation and Experiences of Post-partum Depression amongst Immigrant Mothers: Cultural Competency in Medicine Mirabelle E. Fernandes-Paul Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
Chapter 7 ‘A Mother Who Stays but Cannot Provide Is Not as Good’ Migrant Mothers in Hanoi, Vietnam Catherine Locke, Nguyen Thi Ngan Hoa and Nguyen Thi Thanh Tam Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
Chapter 8 ‘A City Walla Prefers a Small Family’ Son Preference and Sex Selection among Punjabi Migrant Families in Urban India Sunil K. Khanna Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	152
Chapter 9 Restoring the Connection: Aboriginal Midwifery and Relocation for Childbirth in First Nation Communities in Canada Rachel Olson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 206
Keywords: Medical Anthropology; Refugee and Migration Studies; Gender Studies and Sexuality

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Published: November 1, 2014
ISBN: 9781782385455