Migration and Health in Asia: 10 (Routledge Research in Population and Migration) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415416566 ISBN 13: 9780415416566

Publisher: Routledge, 2010

Synopsis

This important and timely collection is the first single-volume examination of the relationship between 'migration' and 'health' in an Asian context. The essays use both quantitative and qualitative approaches to investigate interdisciplinary issues.

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About the Author

Santosh Jatrana is a research fellow at the department of Public Health, Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Otago, New Zealand. She is a demographer with particular research interest in the field of social demography, such as socioeconomic inequality and mortality, child health, gender, demography of ethnic minority, ageing and health, migrant health, and maternal employment and family commitments.

Mika Toyota is a research fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. She is a social anthropologist whose research focuses on transnational networks, the geopolitics of borderlands, migration, gender and the changing family in Asia.

Brenda S.A. Yeoh is Professor of Geography at the National University of Singapore, and the Principal Investigator of the Asian MetaCentre. Her research focuses on the politics of space in colonial and post-colonial cities; and gender, migration and transnational communities.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415416566
• ISBN 13: 9780415416566
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 278
• Editor: Jatrana Santosh, Toyota Mika, Brenda S. A. Yeoh