Undocumented Pregnant Women: What Does the Literature Tell Us?

Munro, Kimberly; Jarvis, Catherine; Muňoz, Marie; D’Souza, Vinita; Graves, Lisa

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“…The articles come from a range of disciplines including midwifery, maternity care, public health, reproductive health, and sociology. 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, ).…”

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“…Only 4 texts explicitly defined pregnant migrant women (Balaam et al, ; Binder et al, ; Carolan, ; Munro et al, ). The remaining 17 articles offered differing levels of definition and complexity of conceptualization.…”

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“…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.…”

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

Balaam

Haith-Cooper

Pařízková

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Int J of Nursing Practice

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Aim: This paper explores the concept of migrant women as used in European healthcare literature in context of pregnancy to provide a clearer understanding of the concept for use in research and service delivery.Methods: Walker and Avant's method of concept analysis. Results:The literature demonstrates ambiguity around the concept; most papers do not provide an explicit or detailed definition of the concept. They include the basic idea that women have moved from an identifiable region/country to the country in which the research is undertaken but fail to acknowledge adequately the heterogeneity of migrant women. The paper provides a definition of the concept as a descriptive theory and argues that research must include a clear definition of the migrant specific demographics of the women. This should include country/region of origin and host, status within the legal system of host country, type of migration experience, and length of residence. Conclusion:There is a need for a more systematic conceptualization of the idea of migrant women within European literature related to pregnancy experiences and outcomes to reflect the heterogeneity of this concept. To this end, the schema suggested in this paper should be adopted in future research. KEYWORDS concept, midwifery, migrant, nursing, pregnant, womenThis is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

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

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“…Barriers to healthcare for undocumented immigrants that may lead to underutilization of healthcare can be organized into predisposing factors, structural factors, and available resources (Leclere, Jensen, & Biddlecom, 1994). These include negative experiences of medical care, stigma, fear of deportation, restricted access to health services and lack of a regular healthcare provider (Chandler et al, 2012; Fuentes-Afflick & Hessol, 2009; Munro et al, 2013; Rhodes et al, 2015). In addition to these barriers, HIV-infected undocumented immigrants may also face an additional layer of stigma from their own communities secondary to their HIV status (Dang et al, 2012).…”

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“…Social and structural factors, including restricted access to health services (Fuentes-Afflick & Hessol, 2009; Munro, Jarvis, Munoz, D’Souza, & Graves, 2013), negative experiences of medical care (Chandler, Malone, Thompson, & Rehm, 2012; Ortega et al, 2007), and low socioeconomic status (Passel & Cohn, 2009), may place this population at risk of poor health outcomes. Little is known about undocumented immigrants living with HIV.…”

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Emerging from the database shadows: characterizing undocumented immigrants in a large cohort of HIV-infected persons

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Little is known about how HIV affects undocumented immigrants despite social and structural factors that may place them at risk of poor HIV outcomes. Our understanding of the clinical epidemiology of HIV-infected undocumented immigrants is limited by the challenges of determining immigration status in large data sets. We developed an algorithm to predict undocumented immigration status using social security number (SSN) and insurance data. We retrospectively applied this algorithm to a cohort of HIV-infected adults receiving care at a large urban healthcare system who attended at least one HIV-related outpatient visit between January 1997 and December 2013, classifying patients as “screened undocumented” or “documented”. We then reviewed the medical records of screened undocumented patients, classifying those whose records contained evidence of undocumented immigration status as “undocumented per medical chart” (charted undocumented). Bivariate measures of association were used to identify demographic and clinical characteristics associated with undocumented immigrant status. Of 7,593 patients, 205 (2.7%) were classified as undocumented by the algorithm. Compared to documented patients, undocumented patients were younger at entry to care (mean 38.5 years vs. 40.6 years, p<0.05), less likely to be female (33.2% vs. 43.1%, p<0.01), less likely to report injection drug use as their primary HIV risk factor (3.4% vs. 18.0%, p<0.001), and had lower median CD4 count at entry to care (288 cells/mm3 vs. 339 cells/mm3, p<0.01). After medical record review, we re-classified 104 patients (50.7%) as charted undocumented. Demographic and clinical characteristics of charted undocumented did not differ substantially from screened undocumented. Our algorithm allowed us to identify and clinically characterize undocumented immigrants within an HIV-infected population, though it overestimated the prevalence of patients who were undocumented.

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Hospitalization among migrants in Italy: Access to health care as an opportunity for integration and inclusion

Barsanti

2018

Health Planning & Management

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This paper analyzes migrant access to health care by comparing hospitalizations of native and immigrant population with respect the Tuscany Region (Italy). In the analyses, a critical gap both for legal and undocumented migrant population is highlighted. Indeed, we found some key differences between the migrant and native populations related to the use of specific hospital services in Tuscany and, indirectly, of community and primary care services. Moreover, especially for undocumented migrants, hospitals seem to be the only point of access to the health-care system for migrant populations. The results suggest that the Italian health-care system is unable to ensure an equitable access to health services. In this context, maternity care could be a key point of access to the welfare system that allows participation in the health system not only for mothers but also for all migrant family members.

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Undocumented Pregnant Women: What Does the Literature Tell Us?

Cited by 42 publications

References 28 publications

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

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

Emerging from the database shadows: characterizing undocumented immigrants in a large cohort of HIV-infected persons

Hospitalization among migrants in Italy: Access to health care as an opportunity for integration and inclusion

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