2014-2015 Scientific groups

The sub-committee on the Scientific Groups headed by Santhya received six proposals. The Council members unanimously supported the following four Scientific Groups:

i) Fertility ideals and intentions in Asia
ii) Urbanization and internal migration in Asia

iii) Demography of Asian migrants and diasporas

iv) Pathways to Adulthood in Asia: Filling gaps in what is known about sexual and reproductive health.

The chairs, members and proposed activities of the four approved Scientific Groups are as follows:

Scientific Group (SG) titles	SG Chair and institutional affiliation	SG members and institutional affiliation	Proposed activities
Fertility ideals and intentions in Asia	Stuart Basten Oxford University, UK	Zheng Zhenzhen, CASS, China Minja Kim Choe , East West Centre, Hawaii Minna Säävälä, Väestöliitto, Finland Nazar Shabila, Hawler Medical University, Iraq	Two workshops and promotion of a network of scholars working on fertility ideals and intentions.
Urbanisation and Internal Migration in Asia	Salut Muhidin Macquarie University, Australia	Kailash C. Das; IIPS, India Aree Jampaklay, IPSR, Mahidol University, Thailand Tommy Firman, BIT, Indonesia - Yu Zhu, Fujian Normal University, China	Take stock of the state of knowledge of cross-national analyses of urbanization and internal migration in Asian countries. Two workshops are proposed that will focus on the conceptual and technical issues in cross-national analyses of urbanization and internal migration in Asia.
Demography of Asian Migrants and Diasporas	Yaghoob Foroutan University of Waikato, New Zealand	Graeme Hugo, University of Adelaide, Australia Aris Ananta, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore Jacqueline Leckie, University of Otago, New Zealand Fei Guo, Macquarie University, Australia Maruja Milagros Asis, Scalabrini Migration Center, Philippines	Two regional workshops
Pathways to adulthood in Asia: filling gaps in what is known about sexual and reproductive health	Shireen Jejeebhoy Population Council, India	Lou Chaohua, SIPPR, China Mahesh Puri, CREHPA, Nepal Meimanat Hosseini, ANU, Australia Maria Midea M Kabamalan, University of Philippines, Philippines Philip Guest, IPSR, Mahidol University, Thailand	Two seminars: i) Unintended pregnancy among the young: correlates and consequences ii) Role of gatekeepers in facilitating young people’s transition to adulthood.

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