Population Studies and Development from Theory to Fieldwork

09.11.2017

Englisch

9783319617732

Springer International Publishing

Demographic Transformation and Socio-Economic Development

Nein

236

Gebundene Ausgabe

After graduating in social anthropology and demography, Véronique Petit became a Professor of demography at the University Paris Descartes. She belongs to the Centre Population and Development. Specialized in demography of developing countries, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. Her research works concerned mainly two fields research: reproductive health (contraception, female genital mutilations, population policies) and international migrations (remittances, return migrations, mental health of migrants). She is the chief editor of the major francophone revue on international migrations, the Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales. She also contributes to promote the new field of anthropological demography. She had already published with Springer a book about the stake of interdisciplinarity in social sciences: Counting Population. Understanding societies (2013).

Anthropological demography, Poverty, Reproductive health, Population policies, Interdisciplinary methodologies

JHBD - Bevölkerung und Demographie JHB - Soziologie

235 mm

15.5 cm