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Global Health Goals & Local Constraints in a Rural Peruvian Clinic / by Morgan K. Hoke, Samya R. Stumo, and Thomas L. Leatherman -- Science and Sanctity : Biomedicine and Christianity at an Ethiopian Hospital / by Anita Hannig -- The Cosmopolitan Hospital / by Cheryl Mattingly -- "Dangerous Disease" : Epilepsy in Asante / by William C. Olsen -- The Salience of the State in Biomedicine : Congo and Uganda Cases / compared by John M. Janzen -- Creating a therapeutic Community : Lessons from Allada Hospital Benin / y Mark Nichter, Ghislain Emmanuel Sopoh, and Roch Christian Johnson -- Medical "Errands" among Women with Cervical Cancer in Guatemala / by Anita Chary and Peter Rohloff -- Routinized Caring or a "Call" to Nursing : Shifts in Hospital Nursing in Rukwa, Tanzania / by Adrienne E. Strong -- "We Work with What We Have, Not with What We Would Like to Have" : Hospital Care in Mexico / by Vania Smith-Oka and Kayla Hurd -- The Navigation of Public Hospitals by West African Immigrants with Cancer in Paris, France / by Carolyn Sargent -- Each Child is Unique : The Responsible US Parent's Take on Hospital Care Gone Wrong / by Elisa J. Sobo -- Making Ethnographic Sense of Cesarean Rates in Greek Public Hospitals / by Eugenia Georges -- The Nightside of Medicine : Obstetric Suffering and Ethnographic Witnessing in a Pakistani Hospital / by Emma Varley -- Afterword / by Claire Wendland.

pt. I. Negotiating parenthood and childhood. Infanticide, the spirits of aborted fetuses, and the making of motherhood in Japan / Mary Picone ; Ambiguities lost : fashioning the fetus into a child in Ecuador and the United States / Lynn M. Morgan ; Reproductive partners : doctor-woman relations in Israeli and Canadian IVF contexts / Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli ; Examining surrogacy discourses : between feminine power and exploitation / Elizabeth F.S. Roberts ; Neonatal jaundice : the cultural history of the creation and maintenance of a "disease" of newborns / John A. Brett and Susan Niermeyer ; Mamitis and the traumas of development in a Colonia Popular of Mexico City / Matthew C. Gutmann ; Ethical reflections : taking a walk on the wild side / Meira Weiss -- pt. II. The cultural politics of child survival. Historical perspectives on infant and child mortality in Northwestern Portugal / Caroline B. Brettell ; Children's health as accumulated capital : structural adjustment in the Dominican Republic and Cuba / Linda M. Whiteford ; Bad boys and good girls : the implications of gender ideology for child health in Jamaica / Carolyn Sargent and Michael Harris ; Who is the rogue? Hunger, death, and circumstance in John Mampe Square / Loenard B. Lerer -- pt. III. Small wars : children and violence. "Good mothers", "Babykillers", and fatal child maltreatment / Jill E. Korbin ; Ritual and satanic abuse in England / J.S. La Fontaine ; Institutionalized sex abuse and the Catholic Church / Nancy Scheper-Hughes ; Children in extremely difficult circumstances : war and its aftermath in Croatia / Maria B. Olujic ; Families and children in pain in the U.S. inner city / Philippe Bourgois ; Brazilian apartheid : street kids and the struggle for urban space / Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Daniel Hoffman ; Nothing bad intended : child discipline, punishment, and survival in a shantytown in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil / Donna M. Goldstein

Strategies of state surveillance shape the construction of migrant identities in France. Focusing on migrants from the Senegal River Valley in West Africa, the authors suggest that ideological and institutional constraints concerning legal status and family reunification create a shifting world of unstable identities for these migrants. The fall 2005 riots across France have been widely cited as an illustration of the failure of the French model of immigrant integration. Restrictive legislation since 1975 has challenged gender relations in migrant communities. The gendered production of immigrant identities merits special attention; women's and men's diverse experiences require differing strategies of adjustment. During the past 30 years, anti-immigrant discourse/practice has effectively contested the state policy of integration and its emphasis on achieving nationality as the ultimate immigrant objective. The gendered strategies of West African migrants demonstrate that state polices have created a new category of migrants whose everyday lives seem permanently in transition.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- introduction Toward Global Anthropological Studies of Reproduction: Concepts, Methods, Theoretical Approaches -- Introduction to Part I -- 1. Global Ethnography: Problems of Theory and Method -- 2. Globalizing, Reproducing, and Civilizing Rural Subjects: Population Control Policy and Constructions of Rural Identity in China -- 3. Planning Men Out of Family Planning: A Case Study from Mexico -- 4. Antiviral but Pronatal? arvs and Reproductive Health: The View from a South African Township -- 5. Birth in the Age of aids: Local Responses to Global Policies and Technologies in South India -- 6. Competing Globalizing Influences on Local Muslim Women's Reproductive Health and Human Rights in Sudan: Women's Rights, International Feminism, and Islamism -- Introduction to Part II -- 7. Reproductive Viability and the State: Embryonic Stem Cell Research in India -- 8. Globalization and Gametes: Islam, Assisted Reproductive Technologies, and the Middle Eastern State -- 9. Law, Technology, and Gender Relations: Following the Path of DNA Paternity Tests in Brazil -- Introduction to Part III -- 10. From Sex Workers to Tourism Workers: A Structural Approach to Male Sexual Labor in Dominican Tourism Areas -- 11. Family Reunification Ideals and the Practice of Transnational Reproductive Life among Africans in Europe -- 12. Problematizing Polygamy, Managing Maternity: The Intersections of Global, State, and Family Politics in the Lives of West African Migrant Women in France -- 13. Lost in Translation: Lessons from California on the Implementation of State-Mandated Fetal Diagnosis in the Context of Globalization -- 14. Reproductive Rights in No-Woman's-Land: Politics and Humanitarian Assistance -- Epilogue The Mystery Child and the Politics of Reproduction: Between National Imaginaries and Transnational Confrontations -- References -- Contributors -- Index