Demographic Change in Southeast Asia

by Williams, Lindy; Guest, Michael Philip

• ISBN13: 9780877277576
• ISBN10: 0877277575
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-07-12
• Publisher: Cornell Univ Southeast Asia

Summary

During the last half century, Southeast Asia has undergone tremendous socioeconomic and political change. This volume chronicles the demographic transformations that have accompanied those changes, and documents how public health and other interventions contributed to rapid population growth and new settlement patterns. Changing opportunities for young adults have since revolutionized marriage and fertility choices and raised concerns about population aging. This groundbreaking study of postcolonial Southeast Asia addresses many of the contemporary challenges facing the citizens and governments of an increasingly mobile and "globalized" region. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Preface	p. 1
Population and Society in Southeast Asia: A Historical Perspective	p. 5
Fertility in Southeast Asia	p. 43
Marriage Trends in Southeast Asia	p. 65
Population Aging in Southeast Asia	p. 93
Changing Patterns of Population Mobility in Southeast Asia	p. 121
Migration and Health in Southeast Asia	p. 165
Population and Environment in Southeast Asia: Complex Dynamics and Trends	p. 185
Conclusion	p. 209
Contributors	p. 219
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