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dc.contributor.advisorBradshaw, Gwendolen
dc.contributor.advisorFeatherstone, Brigid M.
dc.contributor.authorHaith-Cooper, Melanie*
dc.date.accessioned2012-01-30T17:44:30Z
dc.date.available2012-01-30T17:44:30Z
dc.date.issued2012-01-30
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10454/5364
dc.description.abstractCurrent literature has indicated a concern about standards of maternity care experienced by pregnant asylum seeking women. As the next generation of midwives, it would appear essential that students are educated in a way that prepares them to effectively care for pregnant asylum seekers. Consequently, this study examined the way in which midwifery students constructed a pregnant asylum seeker's health and social needs, the discourses that influenced their constructions and the implications of these findings for midwifery education. For the duration of year two of a pre-registration midwifery programme, eleven midwifery students participated in the study. Two focus group interviews using a problem based learning (PBL) scenario were conducted. In addition, three students were individually interviewed and two students' written reflections on practice were used to construct data. Following a critical discourse analysis, dominant discourses were identified which appeared to influence the way that pregnant asylum seekers were perceived. The findings suggested an underpinning discourse around the asylum seeker as different and of a criminal persuasion. In addition, managerial and medico-scientific discourses were identified, which appeared to influence how midwifery students approach their care of women in general, at the expense of a woman centred, midwifery perspective. The findings from this study were used to develop 'the pregnant woman within the global context' model for midwifery education and it is recommended that this be used in midwifery education, to facilitate the holistic assessment of pregnant asylum seekers' and other newly arrived migrants' health and social needs.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rights<a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-nd/3.0/88x31.png" /></a><br />The University of Bradford theses are licenced under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/">Creative Commons Licence</a>.eng
dc.subjectCritical discourse analysisen_US
dc.subjectCase study approachen_US
dc.subjectMaternity servicesen_US
dc.subjectSocial constructionismen_US
dc.subjectMidwifery studentsen_US
dc.subjectProblem based learning as a research methoden_US
dc.subjectFeminist researchen_US
dc.subjectPregnant asylum seekersen_US
dc.subjectMigrantsen_US
dc.subjectHealth and social needsen_US
dc.titleMeeting the health and social needs of pregnant asylum seekers - midwifery students' perspectives. A critical discourse analysis of language use by midwifery students in their social constructions of the health and social needs of asylum seekers accessing maternity services.en_US
dc.type.qualificationleveldoctoralen_US
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Bradfordeng
dc.publisher.departmentSchool of Healthen_US
dc.typeThesiseng
dc.type.qualificationnamePhDen_US
dc.date.awarded2011
dc.description.publicnotesBecame: Haith-Cooper, Melanie. Please search under Haith-Cooper for later articles.en
refterms.dateFOA2018-07-19T08:37:42Z


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