Aparna Malaviya
I am a curious researcher of mobilities and migration. I have conducted an ethnographic study of the Afghan refugees in India and I am continuing my exploratory ethnography of the Afghan migration in the US.
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juvenile, has become a major cause of worry and concerns. Sex composition of population needs intensive research and attention of scholars. In this paper, an effort has been made in this direction to understand the sex ratio at birth of Indian population with respect to it’s socioeconomic,biological, and demographic correlates. The study has been carried out using NFHS data, which shows that improved health conditions and family building process through differential spacing and stopping behaviour are responsible for designing the secondary sex composition of the country. The altered sex ratio at birth in states with high son preference, like Punjab, can be inferred in sex selective abortion as well as differential in family building process based on sex preference.
Aparna Malaviya
Abstract
Amidst the intricate web of negotiations and survival mechanisms adopted by Afghan refugees in India, Afghan women have landed up in an entirely different socio-political space with new roles to play and challenges to fight. Afghan women refugees, the focus of this paper, are deprived of certain rights by the virtue of their status of ‘asylum seeker’ and ‘refugee’. These ascribed categories add on challenges women encounter in new world. Their exposure to English language, basic computer education and vocational courses through their respective classes run by United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and its partner NGOs, has enabled them to achieve economic self-dependence. The argument of this paper is that in politically alien land, women do not remain mere silent aid receivers, survivors of war and mute spectators of circumstances. Rather they are active participant in social and economic struggle for survival and existence. The status for survival has exposed them to newer possibilities and created an alternative space of functionality. With the passing years various negotiations done for their existence as ‘woman asylum seekers’ and ‘woman refugees’ are inducing definitive changes in the underlying attitude of these women and redefining their roles and power
equations within and outside the community.
juvenile, has become a major cause of worry and concerns. Sex composition of population needs intensive research and attention of scholars. In this paper, an effort has been made in this direction to understand the sex ratio at birth of Indian population with respect to it’s socioeconomic,biological, and demographic correlates. The study has been carried out using NFHS data, which shows that improved health conditions and family building process through differential spacing and stopping behaviour are responsible for designing the secondary sex composition of the country. The altered sex ratio at birth in states with high son preference, like Punjab, can be inferred in sex selective abortion as well as differential in family building process based on sex preference.
Aparna Malaviya
Abstract
Amidst the intricate web of negotiations and survival mechanisms adopted by Afghan refugees in India, Afghan women have landed up in an entirely different socio-political space with new roles to play and challenges to fight. Afghan women refugees, the focus of this paper, are deprived of certain rights by the virtue of their status of ‘asylum seeker’ and ‘refugee’. These ascribed categories add on challenges women encounter in new world. Their exposure to English language, basic computer education and vocational courses through their respective classes run by United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and its partner NGOs, has enabled them to achieve economic self-dependence. The argument of this paper is that in politically alien land, women do not remain mere silent aid receivers, survivors of war and mute spectators of circumstances. Rather they are active participant in social and economic struggle for survival and existence. The status for survival has exposed them to newer possibilities and created an alternative space of functionality. With the passing years various negotiations done for their existence as ‘woman asylum seekers’ and ‘woman refugees’ are inducing definitive changes in the underlying attitude of these women and redefining their roles and power
equations within and outside the community.