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Migration and health in Asia / edited by Santosh Jatrana, Mika Toyota, and Brenda S.A. Yeoh.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Routledge research in population and migrationPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2005Description: xvii, 260 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0415363195
  • 9780415363198
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.1095 22
LOC classification:
  • RA525 .M535 2005
Contents:
1. Introduction: Understanding Migration and Health in Asia(Santosh Jatrana, Elspeth Graham and Paul Boyle) -- 2. Population Movement in Indonesia: Implications for the Potential Spread of HIV /AIDS(Graeme Hugo) -- 3. Relative Pleasures: Drugs, Development and Modern Dependencies in Asia's Golden Triangle(Chris Lyttleton) -- 4. Construction of Foreign Labour Migrants in a Time of SARS: The Case of Singapore(Theresa Wong and Brenda S.A. Yeoh) -- 5. Investigating the Role of Nativity on Functional Disability Among Older Adults in Singapore(Santosh Jatrana and Angelique Chan) -- 6. Anemia Among Migrants and Non-Migrant Mothers in Disadvantaged Areas in the Visayas, Philippines(Alan Banzon Feranil) -- 7. The Filipinos in Sabah: Unauthorised, Unwanted and Unprotected(Maruja M.B. Asis) -- 8. Migration, Differential Access to Health Services and Civil Society's Responses in Japan(Keiko Yamanaka) -- 9. An Institutional Approach Towards Migration and Health in China(Xiang Biao) -- 10. A Longitudinal Analysis of Health and Mortality in a Migrant-Sending Region of Bangladesh(Randall Steven Kuhn) -- 11. Reproductive Health Status of Wives Left-Behind by Male Out-Migrants: A Study of Rural Bihar, India(Archana K. Roy and Parveen Nangia) -- 12. Some Policy Issues on Migrant Health(Gavin Jones).
Summary: "While migration may offer economic benefits, migrant populations are vulnerable to various health problems. Until now there has been no single volume examination of the relationship between "migration" and "health" in an Asian context. This book fills that gap.The book will interest advanced undergraduate students, graduates, academics and professionals in the areas of public health, sociology, geography, anthropology and migration studies."--Publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction: Understanding Migration and Health in Asia(Santosh Jatrana, Elspeth Graham and Paul Boyle) -- 2. Population Movement in Indonesia: Implications for the Potential Spread of HIV /AIDS(Graeme Hugo) -- 3. Relative Pleasures: Drugs, Development and Modern Dependencies in Asia's Golden Triangle(Chris Lyttleton) -- 4. Construction of Foreign Labour Migrants in a Time of SARS: The Case of Singapore(Theresa Wong and Brenda S.A. Yeoh) -- 5. Investigating the Role of Nativity on Functional Disability Among Older Adults in Singapore(Santosh Jatrana and Angelique Chan) -- 6. Anemia Among Migrants and Non-Migrant Mothers in Disadvantaged Areas in the Visayas, Philippines(Alan Banzon Feranil) -- 7. The Filipinos in Sabah: Unauthorised, Unwanted and Unprotected(Maruja M.B. Asis) -- 8. Migration, Differential Access to Health Services and Civil Society's Responses in Japan(Keiko Yamanaka) -- 9. An Institutional Approach Towards Migration and Health in China(Xiang Biao) -- 10. A Longitudinal Analysis of Health and Mortality in a Migrant-Sending Region of Bangladesh(Randall Steven Kuhn) -- 11. Reproductive Health Status of Wives Left-Behind by Male Out-Migrants: A Study of Rural Bihar, India(Archana K. Roy and Parveen Nangia) -- 12. Some Policy Issues on Migrant Health(Gavin Jones).

"While migration may offer economic benefits, migrant populations are vulnerable to various health problems. Until now there has been no single volume examination of the relationship between "migration" and "health" in an Asian context. This book fills that gap.The book will interest advanced undergraduate students, graduates, academics and professionals in the areas of public health, sociology, geography, anthropology and migration studies."--Publisher description.

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