GRSJ 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Global Health, Peer Pressure, Gender Inequality
14 Sep 2018
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"place, health and home: gender and migration in the constitution of healthy space": Health geography --> what is considered to be healthy culture is relative to place, culture and health. Comparisons of 2 groups of women --> south asian sikhs (from punjab, But share the same political and social positioning in canada (both same through immigration policies) Healthy space --> situated in the domestic sphere. What we believe it to be a healthy space is not related to where they are, but rather what people perceive as healthy. Diaspora: intricate ties that migrant communities maintain with their homeland. Prevalent with women as they re-work their identity through public and private spaces. However, how they rework their home"s is not explored (within diaspora) Temporary protected status for salvadoran women --> contributes to social marginalization of forced migrants on their health. Low to middle income dwelling in suburban neighborhoods.
