Chapter 1 Migration, Belonging and the Body that Births: Pakistani Women in Britain

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Tables vii
4. Acknowledgements viii
5. Introduction. Migration and the Politics of Reproduction and Health: Tracking Global Flows through Ethnography 1
6. Chapter 1 Migration, Belonging and the Body that Births: Pakistani Women in Britain 14
7. Chapter 2 To Be or Not to Be? Cape Verdean Student Mothers in Portugal 33
8. Chapter 3 ‘Good Women Stay at Home, Bad Women Go Everywhere’ Agency, Sexuality and Self in Sri Lankan Migrant Narratives 50
9. 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 77
10. Chapter 5 Health Inequalities and Perceptions of Place: Migrant Mothers’ Accounts of Birth and Loss in North-West India 93
11. Chapter 6 Acculturation and Experiences of Post-partum Depression amongst Immigrant Mothers: Cultural Competency in Medicine 113
12. Chapter 7 ‘A Mother Who Stays but Cannot Provide Is Not as Good’ Migrant Mothers in Hanoi, Vietnam 127
13. Chapter 8 ‘A City Walla Prefers a Small Family’ Son Preference and Sex Selection among Punjabi Migrant Families in Urban India 152
14. Chapter 9 Restoring the Connection: Aboriginal Midwifery and Relocation for Childbirth in First Nation Communities in Canada 169
15. Notes on Contributors 191
16. Index 195