Seasonal casual labour migration in India has conventionally been understood as the result
of extreme poverty whereby villagers are forced to become migrants for the dry six months to …

International migration is a powerful symbol of global inequality, whether in terms of wages,
labour market opportunities, or lifestyles. Millions of workers and their families move each …

The inequalities that structure relationships in Delhi's urban slums have left the health of
women living there chronically vulnerable. Yet for women living in slums, there is no other …

There is an emerging global discourse on female selective abortion (FSA) as several Asian
countries witness an increasing imbalance in their sex ratios in favour of boys. While there is …

Women who experience intimate partner violence often rely on informal support to mitigate
intimate partner violence's health effects. Yet there is little known about who gives the …

Objective To investigate ethical issues in informed consent for decisions regarding embryo
transfer and fetal reduction in commercial gestational surrogacy. Design Mixed methods …

Schooling is not a benign process, rather the choice of schooling is often an opportunity for
marginalised groups to creatively express particular sets of values in an attempt to gain …

In Thailand, infertility remains a source of stigma for those couples that combine a range of
religious, traditional and high-tech interventions in their quest for a child. This book explores …

A broad array of public policy and anthropological research has demonstrated how the slum
environment physically and symbolically excludes its residents from society. Yet recent …

In this paper, I discuss the ethical underpinnings to the anthropological analysis of age and
reproductive decline in the 'management'of infertility, by suggesting that assisted …