The cultural politics of reproduction
Subtitle: migration, health and family making
By: edited by Maya Unnithan-Kumar and Sunil K. Khanna
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9781782385448; 9781782385455
Subjects: Women immigrants; Motherhood; Family planning; Immigrants; Health and hygiene
Description: 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.--