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COVID-19 health inequities
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health care services for undocumented women
health policy reform and activism
immigration policy
maternity
mental health
migrant mothers
mutual aid organizations
prenatal care
racialized motherhood
social welfare system
violence
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- ISBN 9780520394018
- Weight: 363g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 11 Apr 2023
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Pressing Onward centers the stories of mothers who migrated from Latin America, settled in New Haven, Connecticut, and overcame trauma and ongoing adversity to build futures for their children. These migrant mothers enact imperative resilience, engaging cognitive and social strategies to resist racial, economic, and gender-based oppression to seguir adelante, or press onward. Both a contemporary view of the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on racially minoritized populations and a timeless account of the ways immigration enforcement and healthcare inequality affect migrant mothers, Pressing Onward uses ethnography to tell a greater story of persistence amid long-standing structural violence.
Jessica P. Cerdeña is an anthropologist, family physician-in-training, and mother of two who lives in New Haven, Connecticut, where she advocates for racial justice and health equity (Twitter: @jes_cerdena).
