While my last blog post focused primarily on migrant women’s experience with reproductive health facilities in the United States and Russia, I wanted to focus my last post on reproductive healthcare, specifically abortion, in Central Asia. Unfortunately, some countries in Central Asia had a huge gap in information regarding abortion, but I was still able […]
Author: Veronica Coffey
How Migration Policy and Cultural Differences Affect Migrant Women’s Reproductive Health
Due to various political and systematic factors, many migrant women around the world are not provided access to necessary reproductive health services. While many women may work in countries that offer sexual health programs to native women, it is fairly common to find policies in place that restrict migrant women’s freedoms to obtain birth control […]
Reproductive Health Access for Migrant Women
For women who migrate, access to health care, in general, is extremely restrictive. However, reproductive health care has become an even more restrictive resource, especially for women who do not have citizenship or legal status in the country they reside in. Migrant women, compared to men, face increasingly more challenges due to restrictive medical barriers […]
A Comparison of Interethnic Marriage and Migration in Korea and Russia
While I do not have a lot of outside knowledge on migration, I do know that one feature of migration results in multicultural and multiethnic marriages. Outside of Central Asia, one region I know well is that of the Korean Peninsula. One similarity between South Korea and Russia is that they are both going through […]
Gender and Migration
In The Age of Migration, De Hass notes that migration patterns differ across gender. For example, he notes that in cases such as in Moldova, most migrant men travel to Russia and other central Eurasian countries, while Moldovan women tend to travel to Italy to fill the demand for caseworkers (De Hass 129). In fact, […]