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Borders, Citizenship and Pregnancy

Migrant Women’s Experiences of Pregnancy and Maternity Care in the UK

By Gwyneth Lonergan

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Using the analytical framework of reproductive justice, this book examines migrant women’s experiences of pregnancy and maternity care within the context of gendered and racialised discourses around health, reproduction and citizenship, austerity and an expanding border regime.

Gwyneth Lonergan is Lecturer in Sociology at Northumbria University.

1. Introduction

2. Citizenship, Health, and ‘Personalised’ Maternity Care

3. Bordering, Social Citizenship, and Stratified Reproduction

4. Family Bordering, Migrant Women, and Reproductive Autonomy

5. Migrant Women as the ‘Person’ in ‘Personalised Care’

6. Conclusion