Migration and Health in Asia

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Santosh Jatrana, Mika Toyota, Brenda S.A. Yeoh
Routledge, Jan 16, 2006 - Science - 288 pages

The processes of migration and health are inextricably linked in complex ways, with migration impacting on the mental and physical health of individuals and communities. Health itself can be a motivation for moving or a reason for staying, and migration can have implications on the health of those who move, those who are left behind, and the communities that receive migrants.

This volume brings together some of the increasing number of researchers who are studying health and migration in Asia - a continent which is a major exporter and importer of human resources. Using both quantitative and qualitative approaches, the essays included in this work investigate the interdisciplinary issues of health and health-related behaviours in the field of migration.

Comprehensive and scholarly, Migration and Health in Asia also covers major themes such as the pandemics of HIV/AIDS and SARS, differential access to health and civil society for migrants, and the health of the populations who are left behind.

 

Contents

1 Introduction
1
2 Population movement in Indonesia
17
3 Market bound
41
4 Constructions of foreign labour migrants in a time of SARS
61
5 Investigating the role of nativity on functional disability among older adults in Singapore
79
6 Anaemia among migrant and nonmigrant mothers in disadvantaged areas in the Visayas the Philippines
100
7 The Filipinos in Sabah
116
8 Migration differential access to health services and civil societys responses in Japan
141
9 An institutional approach towards migration and health in China
161
10 A longitudinal analysis of health and mortality in a migrantsending region of Bangladesh
177
11 Reproductive health status of wives left behind by male outmigrants
209
12 Some policy issues on migrant health
242
Index
254
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About the author (2006)

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.

Bibliographic information

TitleMigration and Health in Asia
Routledge Research in Population and Migration
EditorsSantosh Jatrana, Mika Toyota, Brenda S.A. Yeoh
Editionillustrated
PublisherRoutledge, 2006
ISBN113422852X, 9781134228522
Length288 pages
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