Choosing motherhood: The complexities of pregnancy decision-making among young black women ‘looked after’ by the State

Abstract

the importance of social positioning of migrants in terms of the cluster of negative aspects and environmental disadvantage generally experienced by most immigrants in the host country is raised in this paper. Care practices of pregnant women with complex social factors were little observant of woman-centred care approaches.

Beyond the discourse of reproductive choice: narratives of pregnancy resolution among Latina/o teenage parents

“…Less attention has been paid to what happens during the time in between the discovery that one is pregnant and the decision to carry that pregnancy to term and become a parent. The literature that examines teenagers' unintended pregnancy resolution process rarely uses individual, in-depth interview data and most is not US-focused (Bell, Glover, and Alexander 2014;Gomez-Scott and Cooney 2014;Greene 2006;Hoggart 2012;Lee et al 2006;Mantovani and Thomas 2014;Tatum et al 2012). Of the studies that focus on teenage pregnancy resolution in the USA in the past 20 years, most take a comparative, quantitative approach, examining selected demographic and personal characteristics of pregnant teenagers who choose a variety of alternatives, such as abortion, adoption or parenthood (Adamczyk and Felson 2008;Coleman 2006;Gomez-Scott and Cooney 2014;Madkour, Xie, and Harville 2013;Moore and Davidson 2002;Murry 1995).…”

“…The limited qualitative research on teenage pregnancy resolution has largely been conducted outside the USA and focuses on major interactional factors (Braveman and Brindis 2011;Frost and Oslak 1999;Greene 2006;Hoggart 2012;Mantovani and Thomas 2014;Tabberer et al 2000). This scholarship highlights the role of norms and values in the decision-making process, including negative attitudes toward abortion, acceptance of Culture, Health & Sexuality 3 early motherhood and views of early parenthood as restorative and redemptive, as well as susceptibility to the influences of male partners, parents and other family members.…”

A concept analysis of the term migrant women in the context of pregnancy

“…They use a range of methodological approaches, addressing a variety of relevant issues, most commonly access to and use of maternity care by migrant women (Kilner, ; Munro, Jarvis, Munoz, D'Souza, & Graves, ; Binder, Johnsdotter, & Essén, ; Wolff, Epiney, et al, ; Bray et al, ; Karl‐Trummer, Krajic, Novak‐Zezula, & Pelikan, ). However other issues include maternal and infant outcomes for migrant women (David, Pachaly, & Vetter, ; Merten, Wyss, & Ackermann‐Liebrich, ; Perez Ramirez, Garcia‐Garcia, & Peralta‐Ramirez, ; Reeske, Kutschmann, Razum, & Spallek, ); migrant women's experiences of perinatal care in their host country (Almeida, Casanova, Caldas, Ayres‐de‐Campos, & Dias, ; Balaam et al, ; Velemínský et al, ); reproductive health including HIV, Chlamydia, and Toxoplasmosis (Tariq, Pillen, Tookey, Brown, & Elford, ; Wolff, Epiney, et al, ; Ramos et al, ); the health status of migrant women (Carolan, ; Wolff et al, ); decision‐making in pregnancy (Mantovani & Thomas, ); and identity and settlement (Vaiou & Stratigaki, ).…”

“…The breadth of the term migrant, and its lack of specificity, is demonstrated in the wide range of terms used interchangeably to refer to migrant women. These include im/migrant women/mother (Balaam et al, ; Perez Ramirez et al, ), undocumented pregnant women (Munro et al, ), young Black teenage mothers (Mantovani & Thomas, ), women with and without migrant background (Reeske et al, ), documented and irregular migrants (Kilner, ), undocumented migrants (Wolff, Lourenço, et al, ; Wolff, Epiney, et al, ), refugee (Carolan, ), asylum seekers (Mantovani & Thomas, ), ethnic minority group (Karl‐Trummer et al, ; Mantovani & Thomas, ), educational migrants (Mantovani & Thomas, ), women from foreign region (Reeske et al, ). The interchangeability of terms suggests a lack of clarity in the use of the concept.…”

“…Anyone not in these categories is defined as having insecure immigration status” (Tariq et al, , p. 6), as well as documented and undocumented migrants (Wolff et al, ; Wolff, Epiney, et al, ). Other articles acknowledge, but rarely consider in any depth, that migrant women can be “economic migrants” (Balaam et al, ; Vaiou & Stratigaki, ; Wolff et al, ) and “educational migrants” (Mantovani & Thomas, ), “undocumented … uninsured migrants and refugee claimants” (Munro et al, ) and “A8 migrant population” (Bray et al, ). These articles provide a more complex concept of migrant women and being to challenge the homogeneity assumed in the articles, which rely solely on one of the basic attributes identified earlier and as such move beyond the generalization of migrant women and begin to differentiate between migrant women.…”