Place, health and home: Gender and migration in the constitution of healthy space

This paper contributes to recent literature that considers the role of everyday activity in constructing ‘healthy space’, specifically exploring the tension between agency and structural processes in explanation. The focus is a comparison of two groups of migrant women in British Columbia, Canada: S...

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Published in:Health & place 2007-09, Vol.13 (3), p.691-701
Main Authors: Dyck, Isabel, Dossa, Parin
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Afghanistan - ethnology
Asian Continental Ancestry Group - psychology
British Columbia
Canada
Emigration and Immigration
Family roles
Female
Food preparation
Gender
Gender Identity
Health Behavior - ethnology
Health behaviour
Health care
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Health practices
Health technology assessment
Home
Home environment
Humans
India - ethnology
Interviews as Topic
Migrants
Migration
Quality of Life
Refugees - psychology
Residence Characteristics
Social Perception
Social Support
Therapeutic landscape
Therapy
Urban Health
Women
Women's Health - ethnology
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Summary:This paper contributes to recent literature that considers the role of everyday activity in constructing ‘healthy space’, specifically exploring the tension between agency and structural processes in explanation. The focus is a comparison of two groups of migrant women in British Columbia, Canada: South Asian Sikhs from Punjab, India, and Afghan-Muslim refugees. It explores the routine practices whereby they work to create ‘healthy space’ as they orchestrate their families’ health. Through food preparation and consumption practices, traditional healing and religious observance, the women delineate the physical, social and symbolic dimensions of healthy space. The women's narratives demonstrate the productive capacity of everyday routines in forging healthy space within the particularities of migrant settlement.
ISSN:1353-8292
1873-2054
DOI:10.1016/j.healthplace.2006.10.004