Friday, March 31 / 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM   •   San Gabriel B

Session 86:
Migration and Social Networks

Chair: Jacqueline Hagan, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Discussant: Karl Eschbach, University of Texas Medical Branch

  1. Migration of the Health Belief Model (HBM): Effects of Psychosocial and Social Network Characteristics on Emigration Intentions in Five Countries in West Africa and the Mediterranean RegionGeorge Groenewold, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) ; Bart de Bruijn, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) ; Richard Bilsborrow, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  2. Immigrants to USA from India and Pakistan: National and Transnational Practices and ImpactsMehtab Karim, Aga Khan University ; Peggy Levitt, Wellesley College

  3. Migration Networks and Migration Processes: The Case of ChinaZai Liang, University at Albany, State University of New York ; Hideki Morooka, University at Albany, State University of New York

  4. Social Networks and Intraurban Residential Mobility Among Black Africans in Post-Apartheid Cape TownSangeeta Parashar, University of Maryland

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