About the Book
Using INDEPTH's multi-site network to provide new demographic insights into population variables, this book provides a new perspective on migration, health and livelihood's interaction over time. The book starts with providing a conceptual and methodological framework to inform the epidemiological studies that are clustered into two themes, showing the dynamics of migration with either household livelihoods or individual health outcomes. The findings demonstrate the important cross-national regularities in human migration. The contributed chapters also exemplify the fact that the impacts of migration can be either positive or negative for sending and/or receiving communities, depending on the issues at hand and the type of migration under consideration.
Table of Contents:
Contents: Foreword; Preface; Part I Introduction: Migration and demographic surveillance: an overview of opportunities and challenges, Michael J. White; Health and demographic surveillance migration methodology and data: a promise for cross-site comparative analyses, Kubaje Adazu; Dynamics of space and time: community context of migration, livelihoods and health of the INDEPTH sites, Sally E. Findley; Age-sex profiles of migration: who is a migrant?, Mark A. Collinson. Part II Migration and Livelihoods: Migration and agricultural production in Kanchanaburi, Thailand, Sureeporn Punpuing and Philip Guest; Migration and socio-economic change in rural South Africa, 2000– 2007, Mark A. Collinson, Annette A.M. Gerritsen, Samuel J. Clark, Kathleen Kahn and Stephen M. Tollman; Parents' migration and children's education in Matlab, Bangladesh, Nurul Alam and Peter Kim Streatfield. Part III Migration and Health: Assessing the effect of mother's migration on childhood mortality in the informal settlements of Nairobi, Adama Konseiga, Eliya M. Zulu, Philippe Bocquier, Kanyiva Muindi, Donatien Beguy and Yazoumé Yé; Child migration and mortality in rural Nyanza province: evidence from the Kisumu health and demographic surveillance system (KHDSS) in Western Kenya, Kubaje Adazu, Daniel Feiken, Peter Ofware, Bernard Onyango, David Obor, Rose Kiriinya, Laurence Slutsker, John Vulule and Kayla Laserson; Migration and adult mortality in rural Southern Mozambique: evidence from the demographic surveillance system on Manhiça district, Ariel Nhacolo, Delino Nhalungo, Charfudin Sacoor, Leonildo Matsinhe, John Aponte and Pedro Alonso; Migration and under-5 morbidity in Bavi Vietnam, Ho Dang Phuc, Nguyen Xuan Thanh and Nguyen Thi Kim Chuc. Part IV Epilogue: The relevance of the volume, Cheikh Mbacké; Index.
About the Author :
Mark Collinson, MRC/University of the Witwatersrand, RSA, Kubaje Adazu, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kenya, Michael White, Brown University, USA and Sally Findley, Columbia University, USA.
Michael J. White, Kubaje Adazu, Sally E. Findley, Mark A. Collinson, Sureeporn Punpuing, Philip Guest, Annette A.M. Gerritsen, Samuel J. Clark, Kathleen Kahn, Stephen M. Tollman, Nurul Alam, Peter Kim Streatfield, Adama Konseiga, Eliya M. Zulu, Philippe Bocquier, Kanyiva Muindi, Donatien Beguy, Yazoumé Yé, Daniel Feiken, Peter Ofware, Bernard Onyango, David Obor, Rose Kiriinya, Laurence Slutsker, John Vulule, Kayla Laserson, Ariel Nhacolo, Delino Nhalungo, Charfudin Sacoor, Leonildo Matsinhe, John Aponte, Pedro Alonso, Ho Dang Phuc, Nguyen Xuan Thanh, Nguyen Thi Kim Chuc, Cheikh Mbacké.
Review :
'This book combines a uniquely comprehensive view of migration in low income countries with insightful analyses of the complex relationships of that mobility with health and earning a livelihood in those contexts. The volume is strong testimony to the enormous potential for demographic surveillance systems to provide an important way to better understand not only the nature of population movement in poor populations but also its drivers and consequences.'
'This book combines a uniquely comprehensive view of migration in low income countries with insightful analyses of the complex relationships of that mobility with health and earning a livelihood in those contexts. The volume is strong testimony to the enormous potential for demographic surveillance systems to provide an important way to better understand not only the nature of population movement in poor populations but also its drivers and consequences.'
Graeme Hugo, University of Adelaide, Australia
'Building on the richness of the INDEPTH surveillance data network, this volume takes a deep dive into the causes and consequences of geographic movement, identifying systematic regularities, and important differences, across the six research sites. This unique compendium of case studies offers valuable lessons for scholars of migration, students of program evaluation, and field workers. It is a tour de force in a rapidly growing field.'
Marta Tienda, Princeton University, USA
'The book is one those stand alone readers, containing cutting edge researches, which employed a unique INDEPTH Network surveillance perspective to the study of the impact of migration, a potent phenomenon, on the health and livelihood of communities in low resource communities in sub-Saharan Africa, South, and South East Asia. The multi-site network approach adopted in the book does not only provide a demographic understanding of migration dynamics, but presents a new perspective to comparative analysis of the impact of migration on human health and livelihood over time. I believe this book is a must read, for all scholars of population and migration studies.'
Godwin Ode Ikwuyatum, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
'The publication, by the INDEPTH Migration and Urbanization Working Group, contains theoretical and methodological migration research based on a decade of demographic surveillance. What especially makes this volume a must-read is the application of longitudinal methods at a variety of sites among countries. The research definitely generates new findings, and hypotheses, about the relationship of dynamic migration to health and livelihood. The studies also call for additional researches on migration that respond to the increasing body of innovative migration policy that is documented in these INDEPTH studies.'
Aphichat Charatithirong, Mahidol University, Thailand
