Seminar Series: Labor Migration, Reconfiguration of Marriage, and HIV / AIDS in Rural Africa
Victor Agadjanian, Associate Professor, School of Social and Family Dynamics, Arizona State University
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Oct 14, 2008 from 12:00 pm to 01:00 pm |
| Where | 1101 Art and Sociology Building |
| Contact Name | Tiffany Pittman |
| Contact Phone | 301-405-6403 |
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About the Talk
In this talk, Dr. Agadjanian will present and discuss the findings from his recently completed project on the effects of men’s labor migration on HIV/AIDS outcomes in rural Mozambique, a poor sub-Saharan country with high HIV prevalence. The analyses are based on data from a survey of 1680 married women (about half of whom were married to migrants and the other half to non-migrants) conducted in rural areas of southern Mozambique in 2006, and in-depth interviews with a subsample of these women. The talk will illustrate the need for and benefits of a broader conceptual approach to the migration—HIV/AIDS nexus by bringing into the analysis the rapidly changing nature of labor migration and related profound transformations in the household economy and the institution of marriage in sending rural communities. Dr. Agadjanian will also discuss his new project that involves two additional waves of quantitative and qualitative interviews with the same sample of women and focuses on changes in reproductive intentions and outcomes in the context of rapidly expanding access to HIV testing, antiretroviral therapy, and mother-to-child transmission prevention.
About the Speaker
Dr. Agadjanian is the Director of the Center for Population Dynamics at Arizona State University (ASU). He received his PhD in Sociology from the University of Southern California and has been on the ASU faculty since 1996. His international research agenda has included themes such as fertility, abortion and contraception; marriage and family formation; gender and labor force participation; international and internal migration; religion and religious involvement; and most recently the social dimensions of STI/HIV/AIDS. He has designed and directed projects involving quantitative and qualitative data collection in sub-Saharan Africa, Central Asia and the Caucasus, and Latin America, and has also worked extensively with secondary survey data such as those of the Demographic and Health Surveys.
For more information go to Dr. Agadjanian's web page.