We have developed the MFMCQ, a questionnaire measuring migrant-sensitive maternity care, for use in a range of maternity care settings and countries.
We aimed to develop a questionnaire measuring migrant-friendly maternity care (MFMC) which could be used in a range of maternity care settings and countries.
Development of methods to measure migrant-sensitive care from the perspectives of international migrants themselves has been limited, likely due to the challenges inherent in creating instruments which are multilingual and culturally appropriate for use with different migrant populations.
As Spain suffers harsh austerity measures, migrants are increasingly being seen as competitors for the scarce social resources, says Araguás. "We're starting to see a discourse that seeks to criminalise immigration, with some media asking whether these groups pay taxes or whether they're scamming social services".
VICE News followed refugees the day before, seeing the desperate measures migrants and refugees resort to, and talking to those who had made the journey from Syria, trying to beat the deadline.
As a result of these measures, migrants have been returning to more dangerous alternative routes, drinking dubious stream water, and traveling through woods and jungles, exposed to animals, police, thieves, and narcos, just to make the trek north.
Independent variables are measured in migrants' first US trip.
All explanatory variables, except for Spouse Visit and English Proficiency 10, are measured upon migrants' arrival in the USA for each trip.
Studies were evaluated on the 1) comparability of the study groups (assembly and maintenance); 2) degree of participant loss; 3) clarity of their "migrant" and "non-migrant" classifications; 4) validity and reliability of the approaches used to measure the migrant, caesarean birth and other variables; and 5) attention given to potential confounding factors (i.e., age and parity).
