Migrant women's experiences of maternity care (360G-Wellcome-209915_Z_17_Z)

£209,936

This project will explore migrant women’s experiences of maternity care in England, in the context of both a hardening anti-immigration consensus in the public sphere, and a funding crisis in the National Health Service, which is having a particularly acute impact on midwifery services (RCM, 2016). Migrant mothers have been especially stigmatised in policies and discourses around ‘health tourism’; pregnant women, for example, were named as one of the targets of the 2014 Immigration Act, restricting migrant access to the NHS. This policing of access to health services has been facilitated by the internal expansion of the border (Aliverti 2015; Nava 2015), such that hospitals are now required to carry out immigration checks on admission. Further, despite evidence suggesting that migrant women have a higher maternal mortality rate, their experiences of maternity care remain under-researched (Woodward et al., 2014). What scholarship exists tends to disregard the impact of the broader social and statutory environment. This project will establish whether migrant women can access adequate maternity care; what barriers, visible and invisible, prevent them from doing so; what the consequences of this are for migrant women and their children; and how NHS staff understand their role in ‘gatekeeping’ access to care.

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Grant Details

Amount Awarded 209936
Applicant Surname Lonergan
Approval Committee Social Science and Bioethics Interview Committee
Award Date 2018-01-23T00:00:00+00:00
Financial Year 2017/18
Grant Programme: Title Research Fellowship in H&SS
Internal ID 209915/Z/17/Z
Lead Applicant Dr Gwyneth Lonergan
Partnership Value 209936
Planned Dates: End Date 2022-08-31T00:00:00+00:00
Planned Dates: Start Date 2019-06-17T00:00:00+00:00
Recipient Org: Country United Kingdom
Region North West
Sponsor(s) Prof Corinne May-Chahal