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SUBMITTER: Lonergan G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC10824606 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sociology 20230403 1
This article explores the construction of the UK National Health Service as a 'bordering scape', and the depiction of pregnant migrants as an especial problem, in policy documents and Parliamentary debates around the 2014 Immigration Act. Migrant women's reproductive practices have long been an object of state anxiety, and a target of state intervention. However, this has been largely overlooked in recent scholarship on the proliferation and multiplication of internal bordering processes. This a ...[more]