Canada’s forced birth travel: towards feminist indigenous reproductive mobilities

Jaime Cidro, Rachel Bach and Susan Frohlick

Mobilities, 2020, vol. 15, issue 2, 173-187

Abstract: The mandatory travel for birth experienced by Indigenous women living in rural and remote areas of Canada is examined using an emergent lens of Indigenous reproductive mobilities. Current evacuation practices are contextualized within the historic and ongoing systems of oppression experienced by Indigenous people in Canada. Indigenous feminist and decolonial theoretical approaches are used to outline one way in which Indigenous women counter settler colonialism to assert sovereignty over their birth experiences – through the resurgence of culturally-based doulas or birth workers. A further contribution of these analyses is the inclusion and centering of the voices and experiences of those previously neglected within this particular body of scholarship, shifting the power relations underpinning reproductive mobilities.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2020.1730611

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