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Author Gálvez, Alyshia.

Title Patient citizens, immigrant mothers : Mexican women, public prenatal care, and the birth weight paradox.

Publication Info. Piscataway : Rutgers University Press, 2011.
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Description 1 online resource (230 pages).
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Series Critical issues in health and medicine
Critical issues in health and medicine.
Summary According 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. In Patient Citizens, Immigrant Mothers, Alyshia G̀lvez takes us from inside the halls of a busy metropolitan hospital & rsquo;s public prenatal clinic to the Oaxaca and Puebla states in Mexico to look at the ways Mexican women manage their pregnancies. The book is both a migration story and a look at the ways that immigrants are received by our medical institutions and by our society.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-195) and index.
Contents Introduction -- Immigrant aspirations and the decisions families make -- Allá en el pueblo : the changing landscape of reproductive care in rural Mexico -- Becoming patients : birth experiences in New York City -- Soy fuerte, yo puedo : critical perspectives on prenatal care -- Conclusion : prenatal care and the reception of immigrants why it's important to listen to Mexican immigrant women talk about their pregnancies.
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Subject Women -- Mexico -- Social conditions.
Women.
Mexico.
Social conditions.
Women immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions.
Women immigrants.
United States.
Prenatal care -- United States.
Prenatal care.
Childbirth -- United States -- Cross-cultural studies.
Childbirth.
Genre/Form Cross-cultural studies.
Electronic books.
Electronic books -- Cross-cultural studies.
Electronic books -- Cross-cultural studies.
Subject Women.
Womyn.
Other Form: Print version: 9780813551418
ISBN 9780813552019 (electronic book)
081355201X (electronic book)
081355201X
9780813551425
0813551420
9780813551418
0813551412
Standard No. 9786613491961

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