The Changing Family in Asia Reading Group was formed in January of 2013. For each monthly meeting, one cluster member preselects two journal articles or book chapters for the group to read and leads the discussion during the meeting. The group focuses on the demographic and family changes in Southeast Asia, East Asia, and South Asia, and their causes and implications. 

September 24, 2019 - Lead discussant: Tong Benny

14:00 - 16:00 ARI Meeting Room (AS8-07-60)
• Karaoke as an Everyday Practice for Elderly Well-Being in Urban Japan.

August 06, 2019 - Lead discussant: Xu Hong Wei

14:00 - 16:00 ARI Meeting Room (AS8-07-60)
• Do Female Community Leaders Good for Health? Evidence from the 2010-2016 China Family Panel Studies.

July 30, 2019 - Lead discussant: Gu Xiaorong

14:00 - 16:00 ARI Meeting Room (AS8-07-60)
• Half of the morning Sky: Gender and Educational Achievement among Chinese Adolescents.

June 27, 2018 - Lead discussant: Lavanya Balachandran

14:00 - 16:00 ARI Meeting Room (AS8-07-60)
• Kristina Göransson (2015) Raising Successful Children: Children as Accumulation Strategy and the Renegotiation of Parenting Arrangements in Singapore, The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 16:3, 211-226, DOI: 10.1080/14442213.2015.1028431
• Kamalini Ramdas (2013) Contesting Landscapes of Familyhood: Singlehood, the AWARE Saga and the Pink Dot Celebrations, Chapter 6 of Changing Landscapes of Singapore, (eds) Ho, Elaine Lynn-Ee, Wong Chih Yuan and Ramdas, Kamalini, Singapore: NUS Press

 

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March 29, 2018 - Lead discussant: Pei-Chun Ko

14:00 - 16:00 ARI Resources Room (AS8-07-61)
• Schafer, M. H., & Upenieks, L. (2015). Environmental disorder and functional decline among older adults: A layered context approach. Social Science & Medicine, 124, 152-161.
• York Cornwell, E. (2016). Household disorder, network ties, and social support in later life. Journal of Marriage and Family, 78(4), 871-889.

February 28, 2018 - Lead Discussant: Yeonjin Lee

14:00 - 16:00 ARI Resources Room (AS8-07-61)
• Hill, T.D., Burdette, A.M., Taylor, J. and Angel, J.L., 2016. Religious attendance and the mobility trajectories of older Mexican Americans: An application of the growth mixture model. Journal of health and social behavior, 57(1), pp.118-134.
• Curl, A.L. and Townsend, A.L., 2014. A multilevel dyadic study of the impact of retirement on self-rated health: Does retirement predict worse health in married couples?. Research on aging, 36(3), pp.297-321.

January 25, 2018 - Lead Discussant: Jean Wei-jun Yeung

14:00 - 16:00 ARI Meeting Room
• Wei-jun Jean Yeung, Sonalde Desai, and Gavin Jones. 2018. Families in Southeast and South Asia, Annual Review of Sociology (forthcoming)
• Wei-jun Jean Yeung and Shu Hu. “Continuity and Changes in Singapore Population and Family”, Chapter 1 of Family and Population Changes in Singapore: A Unique Case in the Global Family Change (forthcoming)
• Wei-jun Jean Yeung. “Conclusion“, Chapter 11 of Family and Population Changes in Singapore: A Unique Case in the Global Family Change (forthcoming)

 

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November 23, 2017 - Lead Discussant: Sherman Tan

13:00 - 15:00 ARI Meeting Room
• Watson, Amanda. 2016. "Quelling Anxiety as Intimate Work: Maternal Responsibility to Alleviate Bad Feelings Emerging from Precarity." Studies in Social Justice 10(2), pp. 261-283
• Allison, Anne. 2013. "Home and Hope" in Precarious Japan, Duke University Press, pp. 77-121

October 26, 2017 - Lead Discussant: Lavanya Balachandran

14:00 - 16:00 ARI Meeting Room
• Youyenn Teo (2015). Differentiated Deservedness: Governance through Familialist Social Policies in Singapore. TRaNS: Trans -Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia, 3, pp 73-93 doi:10.1017/trn.2014.16
• Pylyser, Charlotte, Ann Buysse, and Tom Loeys (2017). "Stepfamilies Doing Family: A Meta‐Ethnography." Family Process.

September 28, 2017 - Lead Discussant: Shu HU

16:00 - 17:30 ARI Meeting Room
• Leng Leng THANG and Johan SUEN, Policy approaches to aging in Singapore: Tackling the limits of the family in supporting seniors (book chapter)
• Sharon Quah, Cross-cultural families in Singapore: transnational marriages and divorces (book chapter)
• Shawna Tang, Same-sex partnering and same-sex parented families in Singapore (book chapter)

July 20, 2017 - Lead Discussant: Abhijit VISARIA

14:00 - 16:00 ARI Meeting Room
• Walter-Ginzburg, Adrian, Dov Shmotkin, Tzvia Blumstein and Aviva Shorek. 2005. A gender-based dynamic multidimensional longitudinal analysis of resilience and mortality in the old-old in Israel: the cross-sectional and longitudinal aging study (CALAS. Social Science & Medicine 60(2005): 1705-1715.
• Ang, Shannon. 2016. Social Participation and Mortality Among Older Adults in Singapore: Does Ethnicity Explain Gender Differences? Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences.

June 29, 2017 - Lead Discussant: Xiaorong GU

14:00 - 16:00 ARI Meeting Room
• Jæger, M. M. (2012). The Extended Family and Children's Educational Success. American Sociological Review, 77(6), 903-922.
• Hao, L., & Yu, X. (2017). Sources of unequal cognitive development of middle-school students in China’s rural–urban migration era. Chinese Journal of Sociology, 3(1), 32-55, doi:doi:10.1177/2057150X16684115.

May 25, 2017 - Lead Discussant: Yi YANG

14:00 - 16:00 ARI Meeting Room
• Ji-Whan Yun, 2010, The Myth of Confucian Capitalism in South Korea: Overworked Elderly and Underworked Youth, Pacific Affairs: Volume 83, No. 2, pp. 237-259
• Limin Bai, 2006, Graduate Unemployment: Dilemmas and Challenges in China's Move to Mass Higher, The China Quarterly, No. 185 (Mar.), pp. 128-144

March 30, 2017 - Lead Discussant: Yeonjin LEE

14:00 - 16:00 ARI Meeting Room
• Zheng Zen and Yu Xie, 2014, The Effects of Grandparents on Children’s Schooling: Evidence From Rural China, Demography
• Angelina Grigoryeva, 2017, Own Gender, Sibling’s Gender, Parent’s Gender: The Division of Elderly Parent Care among Adult Children, American Sociological Review

February 23, 2017 - Lead Discussant: Pei-Chun KO

14:00 - 16:00 ARI Meeting Room
• Carr, D., Freedman, V. A., Cornman, J. C., & Schwarz, N. (2014). Happy marriage, happy life? Marital quality and subjective well‐being in later life. Journal of Marriage and Family, 76(5), 930-948.
• Waite, L., & Das, A. (2010). Families, social life, and well-being at older ages. Demography, 47(1), S87-S109.

January 20, 2017 - Lead Discussant: Mary BRINTON

12:00 - 14:00 ARI Meeting Room
• Carly R. Knight and Mary C. Brinton. 2017. One Egalitarianism or Several? Two Decades of Gender-Role Attitude Change in Europe. American Journal of Sociology (forthcoming)
• Mary C. Brinton and Eunsil Oh. 2016. Gender Inequality and Fertility Intentions in Low-Fertility Settings: Evidence from Japan and South Korea. Paper prepared for presentation in the session on “Changing Dynamics of Marriage, Work, and Family in East Asia,” Association for Asian Studies in Asia Conference, Kyoto, June 2016.

 

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November, 2016 - Lead Discussant: Yi YANG

12:00 - 14:00 ARI Meeting Room
• Munsch, C. L. (2015). Her Support, His Support: Money, Masculinity, and Marital Infidelity. American sociological review, 80(3), 469-495. doi:10.1177/0003122415579989
• Killewald, A. (2016). Money, Work, and Marital Stability: Assessing Change in the Gendered Determinants of Divorce. American sociological review, 81(4), 696-719. doi:10.1177/0003122416655340
• Dommaraju, Premchand and Gavin Jones. 2011. "Divorce Trends in Asia." Asian Journal of Social Science 39(6):725-50. doi: 10.1163/156853111x619201.

October, 2016 - Lead Discussant: Pei-Chun KO

12:00 - 14:00 ARI Meeting Room
• Levy, R., & Bühlmann, F. (2016). Towards a socio-structural framework for life course analysis. Advances in Life Course Research.
• Ponomarenko, V. (2016). Cumulative disadvantages of non-employment and nonstandard work for career patterns and subjective well-being in retirement. Advances in Life Course Research.

September, 2016 - Lead Discussant: Ariane Juliana Utomo

• Ariane Utomo & Peter McDonald (2016) Who marries whom?: Ethnicity and marriage pairing patterns in Indonesia, Asian Population Studies, 12:1, 28-49, DOI: 10.1080/17441730.2015.1130327
• Ariane Utomo and Peter McDonald (2016) Marriage, migration, and ethnic boundaries: An analysis of group size and endogamy in Indonesia (working paper)

August, 2016 - Lead Discussant: Shu HU

• Ruggles, S., & Heggeness, M. (2008). Intergenerational Coresidence in Developing Countries. Population and Development Review, 34(2), 253-281. doi:10.1111/j.17284457.2008.00219.
• Chu, C. Y. C., Xie, Y., & Yu, R. R. (2011). Coresidence With Elderly Parents: A Comparative Study of Southeast China and Taiwan. Journal of Marriage and Family, 73(1), 120-135. doi:10.1111/j.1741-3737.2010.00793.x

April, 2016 - Lead Discussant: Shu HU

• Qian, Y., & Sayer, L. C. (2016). Division of Labor, Gender Ideology, and Marital Satisfaction in East Asia. Journal of Marriage and Family, 78(2), 383-400. doi:10.1111/jomf.12274
• Miller, A. J., & Carlson, D. L. (2016). Great Expectations? Working- and Middle-Class Cohabitors' Expected and Actual Divisions of Housework. Journal of Marriage and Family, 78(2), 346-363. doi:10.1111/jomf.12276

March, 2016 - Lead Discussant: Raksha Kirpal Mahtani

• Cheng et al (2014). Still ‘breadwinners’ and ‘providers’: Singaporean husbands, money and masculinity in transnational marriages. Gender, Place and Culture, 22(6), 867 – 883.
• Choi et al. (2012). Social isolation and spousal violence: comparing female marriage migrants with local women. Journal of Marriage and Family, 74(June 2012), 444 – 461.

February, 2016 - Lead Discussant: Pei-Chun KO

• Silverstein, M., & Giarrusso, R. (2010). Aging and family life: A decade review. Journal of Marriage and Family, 72(5), 1039-1058.
• Litwin, H., & Stoeckel, K. J. (2016). Social Network, Activity Participation, and Cognition A Complex Relationship. Research on Aging, 38, 76-97.

January, 2016 - Lead Discussant: Korinek Kim Marie

• Lu, Yao. "Parental Migration and Education of Left-Behind Children: A Comparison of Two Settings." Journal of Marriage and Family 76, no. 5 (2014): 1082-1098.
• Yu, Wei-hsin. "Placing Families in Context: Challenges for Cross-National Family Research." Journal of Marriage and Family 77, no. 1 (2015): 23-39.

 

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November, 2015 - Lead Discussant: Abhijit Visaria

• Guilmoto, Christophe Z. 2012. “Son Preference, Sex Selection, and Kinship in Vietnam”. Population and Development Review, 38(1): 31-54.
• Desai, Sonalde, and Gheda Temsah. 2014. “Muslim and Hindu Women’s Public and Private Behaviors: Gender, Family, and Communalized Politics in India”. Demography, 51(6): 2307-2332.

September, 2015 - Lead Discussant: Dhiman Das

• Bianchi, Hotz, McGarry & Seltzer (2007) "Intergenerational Ties Alternative Theories, Empirical Findings and Trends, and Remaining Challenges" in Intergenerational Caregiving Edited by Alan Booth, Ann C. Crouter, Suzanne M. Bianchi, & Judith A. Seltzer
• Alesina, & Giuliano (2014) "Family Ties" in Handbook of Economic Growth (Vol 2, Pages 177–215) Edited by Philippe Aghion and Steven N. Durlauf

August, 2015 - Lead Discussant: Sharon QUAH

• Beck-Gernsheim, E. (2007). Transnational lives, transnational marriages: a review of the evidence from migrant communities in Europe. Global networks 7(3): 271-88.
• Liversage, A. (2012). Transnational families breaking up: Divorce among Turkish immigrants in Denmark. In K. Charsely (ed.), Transnational marriage: new perspectives from Europe and beyond. New York, London: Routledge.

July, 2015 - Lead Discussant: Tsung-ling, LEE

• Daniels (2008) Global Aging and Intergenerational Equity in "Just Health: Meeting Health Needs Fairly" by Daniels, Norman Cambridge University Press
• Chan, W. C. (2004). Duty to Support an Aged Parent in Singapore, The. Pac. Rim L. & Pol'y J., 13, 547.

June, 2015 - Lead Discussant: Jean YEUNG

• Hao, Yeung (2014) Parental Spending on School-Age Children Structural Stratification and Parental Expectation
• Raymo et al (2014) Marriage and Family in East Asia Continuity and Change

April, 2015 - Lead Discussant: Shu HU

• Doan, Long, Annalise Loehr, and Lisa R. Miller. 2014. "Formal Rights and Informal Privileges for Same-Sex Couples: Evidence from a National Survey Experiment." American Sociological Review 79:1172-1195.
• Small, Mario Luis. 2011. "How to Conduct a Mixed Methods Study: Recent Trends in a Rapidly Growing Literature." Annual Review of Sociology 37:57-86.

March, 2015 - Lead Discussant: Theresa D/O Wilson Devasahayam

• Noone, Jack et al. (2010) "Do Men and Women Differ in their Retirement Planning?": Testing a Theoretical Model of Gendered Pathways to Retirement Preparation". Research on Aging, 32(6) 715–38.
• Kemp, C. and M. Denton (2003) "The allocation of responsibility for later life: Canadian reflections on the roles of individuals, government, employers and families". Ageing and Society, 23(6): 737-60.

February, 2015 - Lead Discussant: Zheng MU

• Thornton, A "Social Change and the Family in Taiwan" (Chapter 2) in Social Change and the Family in Taiwan
• Schwartz, Christine R. 2013. "Trends and Variation in Assortative Mating: Causes and Consequences." Annual Review of Sociolgy 39: 1-20.