New Media and Society – Special Issue: Media and Migration (Vol. 18, Issue 10)

This special section assembles perspectives on mobilities, migration and new media that emphasise mobile subjects’ multifarious involvements in overlapping digital spheres, which relate them socially and emotionally to both their home and destination countries. In this introduction, we identify two key themes that connect articles in this collection. First, authors accentuate migration and new media …

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WPS 255 Is Financial Dependency Shaping The Chronic Morbidities among the Elderly In India: Insights From Selected States?

Using data from the Building Knowledge Base on Population Ageing in India (BKPAI), this paper tests the hypothesis whether financial accessibility improves the health of the elderly in India. Financial accessibility is measured using a source of income, while the health of the elderly is measured by chronic morbidity, financial access and utilization of health …

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Asian Population Studies (Vol. 12 No. 3)

Asian Population Studies is the first international population journal to focus exclusively on population issues in Asia. The journal publishes original research on matters related to population in this large, complex and rapidly changing region, and welcomes substantive empirical analyses, theoretical works, applied research and contributions to methodology. Topics covered include all branches of population …

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Journal of World History – Special Issue: Preaching the Civilizing Mission and Modern Cultural Encounters (Vol. 2, No. 3)

The March  Journal of World History volume 27 number 3 special issue “Preaching the Civilizing Mission and Modern Cultural Encounters” features the following articles by world history scholars: Sartorial Settlement: The Mission Field and Transformation in Colonial Natal, 1850–1897 by T.J. Tallie Civilization and Russification in Tsarist Central Asia, 1860–1917 by Ulrich Hofmeister Singing the Civilizing Mission in the Land of Bach, …

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WPS 253 Layered Cities, Shared Histories: Migrants, Gold and Urban Imaginaries in Dubai and Malabar

Arabia and the Persian Gulf have been part of the social and cultural imaginary of Malabar and vice-versa for centuries. As key regions in the westernmost circuit of the Asian maritime trade linking the Mediterranean in the west with as far as China in the east, they have had a shared history of urbanisation as …

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Asian Population Studies (Vol. 12 No. 2)

Asian Population Studies is the first international population journal to focus exclusively on population issues in Asia. The journal publishes original research on matters related to population in this large, complex and rapidly changing region, and welcomes substantive empirical analyses, theoretical works, applied research and contributions to methodology. Topics covered include all branches of population …

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WPS 252 Double Victims? Parental Migration, Divorce, and Adolescents’ Transition to High School in Rural China

Using both quantitative and qualitative data collected in a migrant-sending county from 2012–2013, this research examined how parental migration affects the educational outcome of adolescents in rural China. The results indicate an overall negative effect of parental migration on educational outcome. On one hand, parental migration increases children’s educational wellbeing by affording parents an opportunity …

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