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

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Piscataway : Rutgers University Press, 2011.

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Description	1 online resource (230 pages).
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 ̀Glvez takes us from inside the halls of a busy metropolitan hospital and 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.
Note	Print version record.
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.
Subject	Women -- Mexico -- Social conditions.
	Women immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions.
	Prenatal care -- United States.
	Childbirth -- United States -- Cross-cultural studies.
	FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Parenting -- Motherhood.
	Childbirth. (OCoLC)fst00854780
	Prenatal care. (OCoLC)fst01075446
	Women immigrants -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01177783
	Women -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01176947
	Mexico. (OCoLC)fst01211700
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form	Cross-cultural studies. (OCoLC)fst01423769
Other Form:	Print version: 9780813551418
Standard No.	9786613491961
ISBN	9780813552019 (electronic bk.)
	081355201X (electronic bk.)

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