Abstract
This commentary responds to Bagelman and Gitome’s (2021) ‘Birthing Across Borders’. I discuss some of the many contributions and insights of their article and address new lines of inquiry and potential gaps that remain to be addressed, including the need to attend to the material realities of birthing bodies, to conduct research on birthing in other liminal spaces across borders, and to understand the subsequent lives of babies birthed in these spaces.
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