ABSTRACT
Stemming from multisited research on Muslim migrants in Montreal and perinatal care, 1 this paper centres on the local and transnational socialities in regards to perinatal knowledge as well as how these socialities and knowledge-sharing practices become actors in the local clinical encounter. We address these two themes within a pluralistic setting, where health services (whether community or tertiary) seek to adjust to local demographic changes (31% of Montrealers are born outside of Canada (Statistics Canada, 2007)). 2 For more than a decade, Muslim countries have been among the leading home countries of Montreal's migrants, making Islam (mostly Sunnite) the second religion in Quebec, after Catholicism.
