This paper discusses the need for multi-cultural methodologies that develop knowledge about the maternity experience of migrant women and that are attuned to women’s maternity-related requirements under multi-cultural conditions. Little is known about the transition to parenthood for mothers in a new country, particularly when the country is New Zealand. This paper will challenge the positivist hegemony of previously completed research on migrant women by reflecting on my own experience as a researcher grounded in a broadly–based, pluralistic set of critical epistemologies that allowed me to uncover the issues and contexts that impacted on the experience of migrant women. It concludes by proposing that, where research occurs with minority groups, multiple research strategies are incorporated in order to prevent the reproduction of deficiency discourses.

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Creator | Kaihanga
Ruth DeSouza
Year of Creation | Tau
01/09/2004
Publisher | Kaiwhakaputa
Nova Southeastern University
Keywords | Kupu
Migration, Motherhood, Methodology, Reflexivity, Methodological Pluralism, Goa (India), New Zealand
Main Language | Reo Matua
English
Submitter's Rights | Nga Tika o te Kaituku
I represent the publisher or owner organisation of this resource
This Research has
been peer reviewed by academics at a university
Bibliographic Citation | Whakapuakanga

DeSouza, R. (2004). Motherhood, migration and methodology: Giving voice to the “other”. The Qualitative Report 9(3), 463-482. Retrieved [insert date], from http://www.nova.edu/sss/QR/QR9-3/desouza.pdf

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