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

By Maya Unnithan-Kumar

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.

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1782385444
• ISBN13: 9781782385448
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"