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100			_aGalvez, Alyshia
245			_aPatient citizens, immigrant mothers : _bMexican women, public prenatal care, and the birth-weight paradox _cby Alyshia Galvez
260			_aLondon : _bRutgers University Press, _c©2011
300			_axi, 211 p. : _bill. ; _c23 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505			_tChapter 1. Paradoxes and Patients: Immigrants and Prenatal Care
505			_tChapter 2. Immigrant Aspirations and the Decisions Families Make
505			_tChapter 3. Remembering Reproductive Care in Rural Mexico
505			_tChapter 4. Becoming Patients: Birth Experiences in New York City
505			_tChapter 5. Critical Perspectives on Prenatal Care
505			_tChapter 6. Prenatal Care and the Reception of Immigrants: Reflections and Suggestions for Change
520			_aAccording to the Latina health paradox, Mexican immigrant women have less complicated pregnancies and more favorable birth outcomes than many other groups, in spite of socioeconomic disadvantage. Alyshia Gálvez provides an ethnographic examination of this paradox. What are the ways that Mexican immigrant women care for themselves during their pregnancies? How do they decide to leave behind some of the practices they bring with them on their pathways of migration in favor of biomedical approaches to pregnancy and childbirth? This book takes us from inside the halls of a busy metropolitan hospital’s public prenatal clinic to the Oaxaca and Puebla states in Mexico to look at the ways Mexican women manage their pregnancies. The mystery of the paradox lies perhaps not in the recipes Mexican-born women have for good perinatal health, but in the prenatal encounter in the United States. Patient Citizens, Immigrant Mothers is a migration story and a look at the ways that immigrants are received by our medical institutions and by our society.
650			_aFamily & Relatioships -- Parenting -- Motherhood
650			_aWomen -- Mexico -- Social conditions
650			_aWomen immigrants -- Social conditions
650			_aPrenatal care
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