ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights a binational study of the reproductive health care strategies of im/migrant women. The cross-border context is critical for seeing how barriers to accessing systems of health care service are reflective of public attitudes about im/migrants. For im/migrant women, negotiating the current adverse conditions coincides with needs arising from their arriving at critical junctures within the female life cycle when both reproductive and productive activities are most important for sustaining their families and households. Reproductive health care strategies were thus examined in light of migrant womens increased exposure to various types of dangers associated with migration including death and violent assault as well as the less dramatic but no less life-threatening conditions, such as when access to health care services and resources in settlement communities are limited or denied. The chapter analyzes the reproductive health care strategies of im/migrant women that are adopted as they become increasingly active participants in cross-border migratory movements.
