Abstract
A growing body of research has explored the healthcare experiences of African migrants in China. However, within this extant literature, there is a lacuna on the reproductive healthcare experiences of African women within this population. This study adopts semi-structured in-depth interviews in exploring the challenges to reproductive healthcare access among African women in Beijing. Results indicate that African women face multiple barriers to accessing reproductive healthcare. In particular, the absence of reproductive health awareness, discriminatory immigration policy, discontentment with healthcare services, and language barrier were the key challenges identified. The study highlights the challenges of reproductive healthcare experiences among African migrant women in Beijing, China, and recommends the implementation of secure and equitable policies that cater for the needs of African women and minorities in the healthcare setting.
Highlights
Within the context of migration, access to healthcare services is often precarious for a population at the margins of society
Migrant health research in Asian countries [20] as well as the reproductive healthcare experiences of African migrants in China is sparse. Considering this gap, this study focused on reproductive healthcare experiences and factors that hinder African migrant women from accessing quality reproductive healthcare services in Beijing, China
Findings indicate that lack of reproductive health awareness, discriminatory immigration policy, discontentment with local health services, and language barrier were the key challenges preventing African women from accessing quality reproductive healthcare in Beijing
Summary
Within the context of migration, access to healthcare services is often precarious for a population at the margins of society. Several studies have explored barriers that affect healthcare access among minority groups [1–4]. Structural factors such as language, culture, gender, financial, ethnicity, social-economic status, and a host of others have clarified the complexity of healthcare access among a vulnerable population across several different countries [5–7]. Projections are indicative that there are about 500,000 Africans in China [8]. African migrants in China fall within a vulnerable group and experience multiple barriers to healthcare services. As previously reported [9], discrimination prevents Africans in South China from accessing quality healthcare. While there are several journal articles on Africans across the cities of China [9, 10], the vast majority of research on African
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