Motherhood in exile. Migration as a stimulus to fertility. Based on a psychoanalytic research project carried out at a maternity hospital in Buenos Aires (Argentina), this paper explores the effects of migration on the subjectivity of pregnant women living in condition of precariousness. The clinical data shows that in these women, the movement initiated by migration provokes a subjective and drive-related reorganisation, which may function as a new stimulus in the encounter with sexuality and procreation.
Migration; pregnancy; drive; fertility