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000013899 0247_ $$2DOI$$a10.1016/j.ssmmh.2024.100303
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000013899 245__ $$aReconstructing a niche sociality during the postpartum period :$$ba qualitative study about the experience of becoming a mother as an immigrant in Switzerland
000013899 269__ $$a2024-02
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000013899 520__ $$9eng$$aEpidemiological studies conducted in high-income countries have shown that immigrant mothers and their children suffer from an augmented morbidity and mortality, including with regard to their mental health. Drawing on the “niche sociality” concept (Manning et al., 2023) as an analytic tool, our paper aims to analyze the postpartum experience of immigrant mothers in Switzerland as well as the circumstances to which these mothers connect their experience and often their distress. This qualitative study included semidirected interviews with immigrant mothers (n=20) and with the health and social care professionals who cared for them (n=26) as well as ethnographic observations. We conducted a thematic analysis and triangulated the data produced with mothers themselves and professionals. Immigrant mothers shared mixed feelings regarding their experience. They often lived their maternity while experiencing a gendered loneliness. As members of transnational families, they dearly missed their relatives living abroad. Their position as new mothers and as immigrant persons comprised complex sociomaterial ordeals related to their (un)employment, housing, and sociality. Drawing from their practice in the community, professionals’ narratives completed mothers’. Professionals critiqued the unequal access to quality health care as well as the petty measures that interfered with mothers’ and infants’ safety that were taken by street-level bureaucrats (Lipsky, 2010 (1980)). Reflexive and engaging, mothers shared sensible and nuanced narratives about their experience and initiatives to rebuild their niche sociality.
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000013899 592__ $$bUnité de recherche en santé, HESAV
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000013899 6531_ $$9eng$$apostpartum
000013899 6531_ $$9eng$$aimmigrant mothers
000013899 6531_ $$9eng$$aniche sociality
000013899 6531_ $$9eng$$areproductive justice
000013899 6531_ $$9eng$$acommunity health worker
000013899 6531_ $$9eng$$atransnational family
000013899 6531_ $$9eng$$asocial distress
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000013899 700__ $$aPerrenoud, Patricia$$uDepartment of Midwifery, HESAV School of Health Sciences, HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland ; University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Western Switzerland (HES-SO), Delémont, Switzerland
000013899 700__ $$aDemolis, Rachel$$uDepartment of Midwifery, HESAV School of Health Sciences, HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland ; University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Western Switzerland (HES-SO), Delémont, Switzerland
000013899 700__ $$aFerec, Eva$$uDepartment of Midwifery, HESAV School of Health Sciences, HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland ; University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Western Switzerland (HES-SO), Delémont, Switzerland
000013899 700__ $$aGalvez Broux, Mélodie$$uDepartment of Midwifery, HESAV School of Health Sciences, HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland ; University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Western Switzerland (HES-SO), Delémont, Switzerland
000013899 700__ $$aPerret, Fanny$$uArcade Sages-femmes, Genève, Switzerland
000013899 700__ $$aChautems, Caroline$$uDepartment of Midwifery, HESAV School of Health Sciences, HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland ; University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Western Switzerland (HES-SO), Delémont, Switzerland ; University of Lausanne, Faculté des Sciences Sociales et Politiques, Lausanne, Switzerland
000013899 700__ $$aKaech, Christelle$$uDepartment of Midwifery, HESAV School of Health Sciences, HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland ; University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Western Switzerland (HES-SO), Delémont, Switzerland
000013899 773__ $$tSSM - Mental health$$j2024, 5$$qart.100303
000013899 8564_ $$ypublished version$$923ed26e7-814c-4ada-b586-49101e811106$$s410605$$uhttps://arodes.hes-so.ch/record/13899/files/Perrenoud_2024_reconstructing_a_niche_sociality.pdf
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