@article{Perrenoud:13899,
      recid = {13899},
      author = {Perrenoud, Patricia and Demolis, Rachel and Ferec, Eva and  Galvez Broux, Mélodie and Perret, Fanny and Chautems,  Caroline and Kaech, Christelle},
      title = {Reconstructing a niche sociality during the postpartum  period : a qualitative study about the experience of  becoming a mother as an immigrant in Switzerland},
      journal = {SSM - Mental health},
      address = {2024-02},
      number = {ARTICLE},
      pages = {8 p.},
      abstract = {Epidemiological studies conducted in high-income countries  have shown that immigrant mothers and their children suffer  from an augmented morbidity and mortality, including with  regard to their mental health. Drawing on the “niche  sociality” concept (Manning et al., 2023) as an analytic  tool, our paper aims to analyze the postpartum experience  of immigrant mothers in Switzerland as well as the  circumstances to which these mothers connect their  experience and often their distress. This qualitative study  included semidirected interviews with immigrant mothers  (n=20) and with the health and social care professionals  who cared for them (n=26) as well as ethnographic  observations. We conducted a thematic analysis and  triangulated the data produced with mothers themselves and  professionals. Immigrant mothers shared mixed feelings  regarding their experience. They often lived their  maternity while experiencing a gendered loneliness. As  members of transnational families, they dearly missed their  relatives living abroad. Their position as new mothers and  as immigrant persons comprised complex sociomaterial  ordeals related to their (un)employment, housing, and  sociality. Drawing from their practice in the community,  professionals’ narratives completed mothers’. Professionals  critiqued the unequal access to quality health care as well  as the petty measures that interfered with mothers’ and  infants’ safety that were taken by street-level bureaucrats  (Lipsky, 2010 (1980)). Reflexive and engaging, mothers  shared sensible and nuanced narratives about their  experience and initiatives to rebuild their niche  sociality.},
      url = {http://arodes.hes-so.ch/record/13899},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmmh.2024.100303},
}