Interrogating the geographies of internal and international migration: a cross-national comparison
Seminar
With the slowing of global population growth, migration, both internal and international, is increasingly important in driving population change in many cities and regions. Recent years have seen significant advances in understanding the geography of internal migration, its impacts, and drivers.…
Youth Migration and Human Capital Development in Indonesia
Seminar
Migration not only depicts the movement of people but also signifies the relocation of human capital. Migration is influenced by various factors, including age and education. The effect of age is shown through the domination of young adult migrants, while education has consistently shown a positive…
Does internal migration contribute to the intergenerational transmission of socio-economic inequalities?
Seminar
Population registers and administrative datasets have become the gold standard in migration research, but access has been limited to a few European and east Asian countries. To bridge this gap, the Australian Bureau of Statistics recently set up the Multi-Agency Data Integration Project (MADIP),…
Decomposing the Differences in Healthy Life Expectancy between Migrants and Natives: the ‘Healthy Migrant Effect’ and Its Age Variations in Australia
Seminar
Whether the ‘healthy migrant effect’ exhibits different patterns in mortality and morbidity and how such patterns change during migrants’ acculturation and ageing processes have not been adequately understood in the literature. This study presents an in-depth investigation of the healthy migrant…
Urban-rural health inequality in China in an era of rapid demographic and socioeconomic changes
Seminar
The urban-rural divide in China is an issue that is both important and unique, for it is not just a gap naturally formed during the country’s fast development, but also largely a man-made divide. The multiple implications of being “urban” and “rural” in China have resulted in urban-rural…
The Gender Revolution and Educational Pairing-Specific Fertility: An Application of the Two-Sex Fertility Model to the Census Data across High Income Nations
Seminar
The reversal in the educational gradients in fertility sits as the central focus of the gender revolution theories in fertility research. As women with tertiary education gained a sizable majority in many high-income nations, the fertility of highly educated women increasingly represents the levels…
A Celebration of the Life and Work of Iwu Dwisetyani Utomo
Other
The School of Demography of the Australian National University would like to invite you to celebrate the life and work of the late Dr. Iwu Dwisetyani Utomo. Iwu was a passionate educator and researcher with a connection to the ANU since commencing her PhD in the mid-1990s. In 2002 she returned to…