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{"title":"Recent fertility changes in Mongolia: what can we learn from examining tempo-adjusted fertility?","authors":"Munkhbadar Judger, Bernard Baffour, Zhongwei Zhao","doi":"10.1080/17441730.2021.1882097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17441730.2021.1882097","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Between 1990 and 2015, several post-communist countries experienced a decline in fertility, followed by a rise in the period fertility rate of roughly one child per woman. Mongolia is a good case-in-point. Its period fertility dropped further after the demise of socialism in 1990 but has increased again since 2005 and fluctuated around 3.0 children per woman in recent years. Political factors have been suggested as the explanation of these changes. This research investigates whether demographic factors also provide explanations for the period fertility changes in Mongolia. We study this through reconstructing the fertility rates, by age and birth order, from data collected by several social and demographic surveys. The fertility rates are adjusted to examine the role of tempo effects in recent fertility changes. The results show that the demographic influences, in particular childbearing postponement and recuperation, have contributed to recent changes in fertility trends and levels in Mongolia.","PeriodicalId":45987,"journal":{"name":"Asian Population Studies","volume":"17 1","pages":"162 - 180"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17441730.2021.1882097","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41939478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Cognitive and psychological health implications of living alone among middle-aged and older adults in China","authors":"M. Wen, Q. Ren","doi":"10.1080/17441730.2021.1886715","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17441730.2021.1886715","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study examines the associations between living alone and psychological and cognitive health and explores the moderating effects of age, gender, marital status, social engagement and family income among middle-aged and older adults in China. Data is drawn from a longitudinal sample of 9,469 participants in the 2010 and 2014 waves of the China Family Panel Study (CFPS). Cognitive health is captured by scores on word and math tests. Psychological health is measured by depressive symptoms. The results show that living alone has no health benefits in this sample of middle-aged and older Chinese, though it seems to be injurious for psychological health among the unmarried and detrimental to cognitive health for men. Study implications are discussed, specifically the need for more research into the mediating and moderating effects of the link between living alone and health.","PeriodicalId":45987,"journal":{"name":"Asian Population Studies","volume":"17 1","pages":"181 - 200"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17441730.2021.1886715","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48203890","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Subjective life expectancy in transition: a longitudinal study of Korean baby boomers","authors":"Jeong-Hwa Ho","doi":"10.1080/17441730.2020.1865634","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17441730.2020.1865634","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Subjective life expectancy predicts actual mortality and provides individual timeframes. This four-year longitudinal study on Korean baby boomers in middle age examines how subjective life expectancy changes as people get older and how changes in health and socioeconomic status cause these shifts. Compared to population-based actuarial life expectancies, men in their fifties overestimated their future longevity by 1.2 years and women underestimated by 4.1 years. Subjective life expectancy increased as the baby boomers aged. The fixed effects regression analyses showed that subjective longevity changed along with known health and mortality factors. An increase in socioeconomic resources predicted an increase in subjective life expectancy, while smoking or health deterioration led to decrease. Generally, baby boomers form rational expectations on their future longevity based on established correlates of health and mortality. However, women’s underestimation of life expectancy warrants social concern on longevity risk.","PeriodicalId":45987,"journal":{"name":"Asian Population Studies","volume":"17 1","pages":"148 - 161"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17441730.2020.1865634","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48632207","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Momentum of Chinese migration scholarship in East and Southeast Asia","authors":"Pui Kwan Man, E. Fong","doi":"10.1080/17441730.2020.1858570","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17441730.2020.1858570","url":null,"abstract":"Chinese people have had a presence in East and Southeast Asia for centuries. According to the United Nations (UN) classification, East and Southeast Asia include diverse economies. Our discussion follows the UN definition and focuses on these economies. In 2020, over 30 million Chinese lived in Southeast Asia in countries such as Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam (Lockard, 2013; Wong, 2013; Zhuang & Wang, 2010). With the implementation of China’s Belt and Road Initiative launched in 2013, there has been rapid economic integration between China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), which has resulted in a large volume of Chinese labour migration within the area (Fong & Shibuya, 2020; Van Chinh, 2013; Wong, 2013). According to UN data on the international migrant stock by destination and origin, the number of Chinese immigrants in East and Southeast Asia increased dramatically between 1990 and 2019, from about 825,000 to 2,084,000. In some countries, such as Cambodia, Japan, Korea, Thailand, and Vietnam, the mainland Chinese migrant population grew more than 100 per cent. It is clear that there has been a visible increase in the number of migrants from mainland China in the region. Despite the large number of migrants from mainland China, large-scale comparative studies of this migration flow have been surprisingly sparse. Using the same UN data set, Abel et al. (2019) and Fong et al. (2020) have explored general patterns of Asian migration. Yet, they did not focus on migration patterns from mainland China specifically. Studies based on individual-level survey data investigating the motivations and destination choices of Chinese migrants in the region are almost absent. The increase in migration of Chinese individuals to Southeast Asia inevitably has also led to the discussion about their economic and social integration. The economic integration of Chinese labour migrants to Southeast Asia is associated with the increasing bilateral trade of China with other countries in the region. The total trade between China and ASEAN rose from US$7 billion in 1990 to US$202 billion in 2007 (Zhuang & Wang, 2010). By 2013, China was the largest foreign investor in Myanmar, Lao PDR, and Cambodia. They found that Chinese products occupied a great part of the Southeast Asia market that helped the economic integration of local Chinese immigrant businessmen (Zhuang & Wang, 2010). However, the current literature on growing economic presence in various economies in East and Southeast Asia, and specifically the relationship","PeriodicalId":45987,"journal":{"name":"Asian Population Studies","volume":"17 1","pages":"117 - 120"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17441730.2020.1858570","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41666482","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Return or not return: examining the determinants of return intentions among migrant workers in Chinese cities","authors":"Hengyu Gu, Yingkai Ling, T. Shen","doi":"10.1080/17441730.2020.1825161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17441730.2020.1825161","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Well-developed cities have long featured as favoured destinations for Chinese migrant workers. In recent years, however, the incidence of return migration has increased in China, with a significant impact on economic development and social governance at both the origins and destinations. Owing to the limited availability of data, the return intentions of migrant workers at the national level have gone largely unexplored. Using data from the 2016 China Migrant Dynamic Survey (CMDS), the study investigates the return intentions of migrant workers residing in destination cities. Econometric data analysis indicates that family connections (i.e. family members living together, and whether to migrate with children) and housing factors (i.e. housing ownership, housing expenditure proportion, housing tenure, and group living) have significant effects on return intentions and that social and spatial factors (i.e. type of industry, employment status, insurance coverage, migration distance, and duration of stay) also play significant roles. Our results point as well to the influence of geographical location on return intentions. The study concludes with recommendations regarding the formulation of population management policies.","PeriodicalId":45987,"journal":{"name":"Asian Population Studies","volume":"17 1","pages":"51 - 70"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17441730.2020.1825161","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43555851","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Life Course Perspective on the Wartime Migrations of Northern Vietnamese War Survivors.","authors":"Yvette Young, Kim Korinek, Nguyen Huu Minh","doi":"10.1080/17441730.2021.1956722","DOIUrl":"10.1080/17441730.2021.1956722","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Research addressing conflict and migration has made great strides in explaining the relationship between violence and migration. However, it commonly lacks individual-level data on exposure to war. We use survey data from the 2018 Vietnam Health and Aging Study to examine the associations between war-related violence exposure during the American War and the wartime migrations of northern Vietnamese war survivors. Using multilevel mixed-effects count models, we investigate three groups of factors influencing migration-war-related events, economic circumstances, and demographic and life course factors-to explore the relationship between war exposure and migration, inclusive of deployments, economic moves, and displacements. Our findings indicate that the effects of war exposure, socioeconomic status, and demographic characteristics diverge for different types of migration. These findings, framed within the life course and historical context, suggest the need to thoughtfully delineate both war exposures and traditional causes of migration to understand the diverse types of mobility occurring during periods of armed conflict.</p>","PeriodicalId":45987,"journal":{"name":"Asian Population Studies","volume":"17 1","pages":"308-331"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9075415/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42975388","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Divorce trends in China across time and space: an update","authors":"Mengni Chen, E. Rizzi, P. Yip","doi":"10.1080/17441730.2020.1858571","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17441730.2020.1858571","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Despite much attention paid to the surging divorce rate in China, knowledge on divorce patterns and trends at the subnational level is still very limited. This study aims to systematically explore social and economic factors affecting divorce trends between 1990 and 2015 at the provincial level from a tempo–spatial perspective. Traditional fixed effects panel regression and fixed effects spatial autoregression are adopted. Divorce maps demonstrated great variations in the levels and trends of divorce across provinces, highlighting the spatial diversities obscured in the national divorce trend. It is further revealed that factors such as economic development, urbanisation, and employment have augmented their influence over time. Factors that reflect gender equality issues such as the gender gap in education, employment, and sex ratio at birth have different effects across the East, Central and West regions in China. These findings provide insights into the future prospects of divorce in China.","PeriodicalId":45987,"journal":{"name":"Asian Population Studies","volume":"17 1","pages":"121 - 147"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2020-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17441730.2020.1858571","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43608538","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Does ‘Love’ make a difference? Marriage choice and post-marriage decision-making power in India","authors":"Manjistha Banerji, A. Deshpande","doi":"10.1080/17441730.2020.1852713","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17441730.2020.1852713","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Women's limited intra-household decision-making power has several dimensions: geographic, cultural, economic, and demographic. The dimension we focus on in this paper relates to women's transition into marriage. Marriages in India are near universal and age at marriage is low implying that nearly all women spend a large part of their lives in a marriage. However, little is known about the bearing events transpiring at the beginning of a woman's marriage have on the path of her decision-making power in the household over her life course. Drawing on the life course theoretical framework, we argue that household authority follows a trajectory, which begins at least with her transition to marriage. Our analysis using panel data of 20,927 mothers from IHDS indicate three marriage types- self-choice marriages (5 per cent), parent-arranged with no choice on the part of young women (39 per cent) and parent-arranged - with some choice (56 per cent). Women who started married life in self-choice marriages later end up with the most decision-making power. But a complex pattern of power relationships emerges among wives, husbands, and in-laws. ‘Some-choice' marriages empower husbands and not the parents-in-law while ‘no-choice’ marriages typically benefit the parents-in-law and not the husbands or the wives.","PeriodicalId":45987,"journal":{"name":"Asian Population Studies","volume":"17 1","pages":"201 - 220"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2020-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17441730.2020.1852713","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48954394","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Coping with population ageing in mainland China","authors":"Xizhe Peng","doi":"10.1080/17441730.2020.1834197","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17441730.2020.1834197","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In reviewing the major factors driving the ageing process in mainland China, this commentary argues that population ageing itself is neither good nor bad. Instead, the main obstacles to dealing with the challenges of aging in China are not only ‘being old before being rich' but also ‘being not ready to get old.' The commentary discusses how China's shrinking labour force coupled with an ageing population may be partially offset by improvement in labour quality, development of new technology and upgrading economic structures. It examines the importance of family and social support systems in coping with the challenges of ageing, particularly in the field of long term care. It concludes that while there is a wealth of international experience that China can draw from, solution should also be solidly based on the country’s own development reality.","PeriodicalId":45987,"journal":{"name":"Asian Population Studies","volume":"17 1","pages":"1 - 6"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2020-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17441730.2020.1834197","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60281112","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Operation ‘Bring Them Home’: learning from the large-scale repatriation of overseas Filipino workers in times of crisis","authors":"Karen Anne S. Liao","doi":"10.1080/17441730.2020.1811511","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17441730.2020.1811511","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In crisis events such as wars, natural disasters and epidemics, migrant workers are among the hardest hit and most vulnerable to displacement, unemployment and the loss of income. The coronavirus pandemic has drawn attention to the role of sending states in protecting labour migrants during disruptions, particularly by returning them to countries of origin. This article highlights the understudied aspect of repatriation, which needs to be unpacked as a process involving actors, policies and practices that shape a sending state's capacity for migrant protection. Through data and document analysis, the article examines the Philippines' experience of repatriating Filipino migrant workers from host countries during crises, focusing on three points. First, institutional and legislative policies configure repatriation in the Philippines' migration system as a process of facilitated return and assistance. Second, past crisis events show how the government's large-scale repatriation efforts adapted to specific situations, but also faced challenges with operational and resource capacities. Third, repatriation in the COVID-19 crisis suggests that a critical post-arrival phase of assistance remains underdeveloped. The discussion reveals the uneven approach of the sending state, which has built a comprehensive system of labour export, but a less coordinated repatriation system and an less fortified reintegration policy.","PeriodicalId":45987,"journal":{"name":"Asian Population Studies","volume":"16 1","pages":"310 - 330"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17441730.2020.1811511","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49398460","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}