The Cultural Politics of Reproduction: Migration, Health and Family Making
Maya Unnithan-Kumar, "The Cultural Politics of Reproduction: Migration, Health and Family Making"
English | ISBN: 1782385444 | 2014 | 206 pages | PDF | 609 KB
English | ISBN: 1782385444 | 2014 | 206 pages | PDF | 609 KB
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.