The Maternity Care Needs of Refugee and Asylum Seeking Women in Ireland

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3945587
AutoresPatricia Kennedy (0000-0002-0333-8387), Jo Murphy-Lawle, Jo Murphy-Lawless
Año2003
Volumen73
Número1
Páginas39-53
Fecha de publicación2003-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaFeminist Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0141-7789 • E-ISSN: 1466-4380
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/palgrave.fr.9400073
OpenAlexW2071249772
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas20
Referencias citadas4

This article presents some of the findings from the original research carried out with asylum seeking and refugee women in Ireland who were pregnant or who had recently given birth. The explosion in numbers in Ireland from 1998 onwards has been such that this group now comprises more than one in five of every birth in the country's three major maternity hospitals, all based in Dublin. The article explores the background reasons for the major increase in recent years of this group of women. It discusses the difficult circumstances encountered by women who must engage with a system of maternity care unused to such complex needs, amidst a general policy climate of uncertainty and even hostility towards asylum seekers. The research findings contribute to the feminist literature on maternity and challenge us to examine the way in which globalization is impacting on women as mothers and the need for challenging Western states anew on the development of a more coherent model of maternity care in response to the needs of such women

Globalization · Health care · Hostility · Maternity care · Political science · Refugee · Sociology · Gender Studies · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Irish and British Studies · Law · Medicine · Migration, Health and Trauma