The New Economic Policy (NEP) implemented between 1971 and 1990 in Malaysia had two objectives: economic growth and ethnic equality. The first objective of the study is to assess the NEP impact on migration in Malaysia, and how this impact differs by ethnicity and gender. The se…
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The dissertation examines the impacts that limited resources and the disruption of international (i.e., trans-Himalayan) trade networks have had on the populations of Sama and Lho, highland Tibetan communities in Nepal's Nubri Valley. Using primary Tibetan sources and oral narra…
Migration is often regarded as a human capital investment with socioeconomic returns. Women, however, are likely to be constrained in reaping the full benefits of migration. This is because of two factors. At the family level migration decisions are taken to favor men rather tha…
This study examines the relationship between culture and child health in Java, Indonesia by assessing whether cultural factors can explain why Sundanese children suffer from higher rates of morbidity and mortality than Javanese children. This question is explored through the com…
The incidence and absolute numbers of unintended pregnancies and births are at an historic high. Annually, forty-six million unintended pregnancies are aborted and 25 percent of the world's 133 million births are unintended. Evidence is conflicting whether and when unintended pr…
This study analyzes the processes of socioeconomic change among rural peasants faced with making a living where both poverty pressures and development efforts are simultaneously affecting the risks and resources in their local environments. Two primary questions are addressed: (…
Remote, equatorial Mahuroi Village in Central Kalimantan, is near the headwaters of the Kahayan River. Multinational mining and logging concessions near this site in Indonesian Borneo are being developed. Eco-tourism adds to increasing risk of massive depletion of natural resour…
Dans cette étude nous avons tenté d'étudier les déterminants socio-démographiques et contextuels de la mortalité des enfants de moins de cinq ans, dans le but de comprendre pourquoi le niveau de mortalité reste encore très élevé au Niger. Pour pouvoir identifier la chaîne complè…
The purpose of this study is to explicate the place and meaning of media in everyday consumption practices of Moroccan migrants in Paris. Drawing from postcolonial discourse and media studies, this research aims at understanding migrants' processes of cultural negotiations of mu…
Though the AIDS epidemic has been spreading through sub-Saharan Africa for over 20 years, HIV prevalence rates in West Africa have augmented much more slowly than rates in East and Southern Africa. This research explores the question of whether differences in HIV prevalence rate…
The dominant mechanism through which maternal employment is thought to affect child development and survival is mother-worker roles incompatibility [Meyers and Indriso, 1986]. This implies that working mothers may not be able to provide adequate care for their children. Hence, t…
The income of most countries of the Middle East grew rapidly after 1973 when the price of oil dramatically increased. To examine the effect of the income growth on food and nutrition status, eleven countries were chosen from the Middle Eastern area. These include Algeria, Libya,…
Health status and healthcare utilization vary depending upon the cultural, social, economic and geographic situation of the person seeking care. This dissertation addresses two questions: (1) Which models of health status and healthcare utilization designed for use in the develo…
Using Ethiopia's 2000 Demographic and Health Survey (DHS), the 1998 Welfare Monitoring Survey, and the 1994 Population and Housing Census of Ethiopia, I systematically examined three issues: HIV/AIDS knowledge, AIDS-related attitudes and condom use. I distinguish different compo…
This thesis studies the political and cultural determinants of fertility and reproductive health among the different ethnic groups in Peninsular Malaysia, by examining data from the Second Malaysian Family Life Survey. Using a study sample of 3292 evermarried women, the thesis a…
Maternal education has been shown to be among the most powerful determinants of child mortality in developing countries. The mechanisms that link maternal education to improved child survival remain largely unclear, however. Using the 1990 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey, …
This dissertation takes an interdisciplinary and mixed method approach to measuring and identifying the demographic significance of women's empowerment in rural Bangladesh. I argue that demographic research on women's empowerment provides a unique opportunity to integrate femini…
Despite a strongly pronatalist climate, immigrant and ethnic groups in Israel have experienced dramatic declines in fertility desires and family size over the past several decades. There has also been an increase in contraceptive use and a significant shift from reliance on trad…
Southern Appalachia in the late 1800s enjoyed a vital, stable, relatively homogeneous society as close to the Jeffersonian yeoman ideal as anywhere in rural America. In the last generation of the 19th and the first of the 20th century it felt the effect of both internal and exte…