The cultural politics of reproduction : migration, health and family making /: migration, health and family making. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Maya Unnithan-Kumar and Sunil K. Khanna.
• Editors: Unnithan-Kumar, Maya, 1961-; Khanna, Sunil K
• Contents: Acknowledgments; List of Contributors Introduction: Migration and the Politics of Reproduction and Health: Tracking Global Flows through Ethnography; Sunil K. Khanna and Maya Unnithan-Kumar Chapter 1. Migration, Belonging and the Body that Births: Pakistani Women in Britain; Kaveri Qureshi Chapter 2. To Be or Not To Be?: Cape Verdean Student Mothers in Portugal; Elizabeth P. Challinor Chapter 3. 'Good Women Stay at Home. Bad Women Go Everywhere': Agency, Sexuality and Self in Sri Lankan Migrant Narratives; Sajida Z. Ally Chapter 4. 'No 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 Chapter 5. Health Inequalities and Perceptions of Place: Migrant Mothers' Accounts of Birth and Loss in Northwest India; Maya Unnithan-Kumar Chapter 6. Acculturation and Experiences of Postpartum Depression amongst Immigrant Mothers; Mirabelle E. Fernandes-Paul 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 Chapter 8. 'A "City-Walla" Prefers a Small Family': Son Preference and Sex Selection among Punjabi Migrant Families in Urban India; Sunil K. Khanna Chapter 9. Restoring the Connection: Aboriginal Midwifery and Relocation for Childbirth in First Nation Communities in Canada; Rachel Olson Bibliography; Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 362.19840086912; Women immigrants; Motherhood; Family planning; Immigrants -- Health and hygiene
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781782385455
• Related ISBNs: 9781782385448
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; item not viewed.
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