Health and Place
Volume 13, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 691-701

Place, health and home: Gender and migration in the constitution of healthy space (Article)

Dyck I.* , Dossa P.
  • a Department of Geography, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS, United Kingdom
  • b Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada

Abstract

This paper contributes to recent literature that considers the role of everyday activity in constructing 'healthy space', specifically exploring the tension between agency and structural processes in explanation. The focus is a comparison of two groups of migrant women in British Columbia, Canada: South Asian Sikhs from Punjab, India, and Afghan-Muslim refugees. It explores the routine practices whereby they work to create 'healthy space' as they orchestrate their families' health. Through food preparation and consumption practices, traditional healing and religious observance, the women delineate the physical, social and symbolic dimensions of healthy space. The women's narratives demonstrate the productive capacity of everyday routines in forging healthy space within the particularities of migrant settlement. Crown Copyright © 2006.

Author Keywords

Migration Women Health practices Therapeutic landscape home

Index Keywords

Afghanistan Punjab [India] Eurasia home refugee India human daily life activity Asia social aspect priority journal health status moslem comparative study religion North America South Asia traditional medicine male Canada female Article gender migration Asian immigrant British Columbia womens health
Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-33947664522&doi=10.1016%2fj.healthplace.2006.10.004&partnerID=40&md5=c8c9ba658e71c948a5e83ac8a7cb5ef5
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2006.10.004
ISSN: 13538292
Cited by: 79
Original Language: English