title: One woman's empowerment is another's oppression: Korean migrant mothers on giving birth in Aotearoa New Zealand.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To critically analyze the power relations underpinning New Zealand maternity, through analysis of discourses used by Korean migrant mothers.
  
  
  METHODS
  Data from a focus group with Korean new mothers was subjected to a secondary analysis using a discourse analysis drawing on postcolonial feminist and Foucauldian theoretical ideas.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Korean mothers in the study framed the maternal body as an at-risk body, which meant that they struggled to fit into the local discursive landscape of maternity as empowering. They described feeling silenced, unrecognized, and uncared for.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The Korean mothers' culturally different beliefs and practices were not incorporated into their care. They were interpellated into understanding themselves as problematic and othered, evidenced in their take up of marginalized discourses.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Providing culturally safe services in maternity requires considering their affects on culturally different women and expanding the discourses that are available.
authors.affiliation: Monash University, Melbourne, Australia ruth.desouza@monash.edu.
authors.forename: Ruth
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: DeSouza
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D065246:Culturally Competent Care; D005260:Female; D017144:Focus Groups; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008427:Maternal Health Services / Q000592:standards; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology*; D009520:New Zealand; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D036801:Parturition / Q000523:psychology; D011209:Power, Psychological; D056910:Republic of Korea / Q000208:ethnology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014171:Transients and Migrants / Q000523:psychology*
keywords: Foucault; Korean women; cultural safety; focus group interview; maternal; postcolonial