Migration and Health in Asia /

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

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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 w...

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TeilnehmendeR:
Yeoh, Brenda S. A.,
Toyota, Mika,
Jatrana, Santosh,
Place / Publishing House:London : : Taylor & Francis,, 2006.
Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (xvii, 260 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • List of illustrations vii
  • Notes on contributors x
  • Preface and acknowledgements xvi
  • 1 Introduction: understanding migration and health in Asia
  • 1 (16)
  • SANTOSH JATRANA, ELSPETH GRAHAM AND PAUL BOYLE
  • 2 Population movement in Indonesia: implications for the potential spread of HIV/AIDS
  • 17 (24)
  • GRAEME HUGO
  • 3 Market bound: relocation and disjunction in Northwest Laos
  • 41 (20)
  • CHRIS LYTTLETON
  • 4 Constructions of foreign labour migrants in a time of SARS: the case of Singapore
  • 61 (18)
  • THERESA WONG AND BRENDA S.A. YEOH
  • 5 Investigating the role of nativity on functional disability among older adults in Singapore
  • 79 (21)
  • SANTOSH JATRANA AND ANGELIQUE CHAN
  • 6 Anaemia among migrant and non-migrant mothers in disadvantaged areas in the Visayas, the Philippines
  • 100 (16)
  • ALAN BANZON FERANIL
  • 7 The Filipinos in Sabah: unauthorised, unwanted and unprotected
  • 116 (25)
  • MARUJA M.B. ASIS
  • 8 Migration, differential access to health services and civil society's responses in Japan
  • 141 (20)
  • KEIKO YAMANAKA
  • 9 An institutional approach towards migration and health in China
  • 161 (16)
  • XIANG BIAO
  • 10 A longitudinal analysis of health and mortality in a migrant-sending region of Bangladesh 177 (32)
  • RANDALL S. KUHN
  • 11 Reproductive health status of wives left behind by male out-migrants: a study of rural Bihar, India 209 (33)
  • ARCHANA K. ROY AND PARVEEN NANGIA
  • 12 Some policy issues on migrant health 242 (12)
  • GAVIN W. JONES
  • Index 254.

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