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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:18.0pt;color:#C00000">Demographic Shifts and Gender in Asia: ‘Scarce Women’ and ‘Surplus Men’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:#222222">Demographic accounts of Asia document an unprecedented and dramatic shortage of women in some countries.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Widespread sex-selection
in favour of boys and female migration flows create regional and local ‘female deficits’ in communities and on marriage markets. More recently, attention has turned to the potential dramatic consequences of a large pool of ‘surplus men’ who will not be able
to marry.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-CA">Most studies paint a bleak picture.
<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#222222">Based on a decade of research about population and gender issues in Asian context, Danièle Bélanger</span></span> will provide a critical analysis of this new 'demographic crisis'. Drawing from
recent fieldwork she and her colleagues conducted in Vietnam, China and India, she<span style="color:#222222"> will share preliminary insight into how local communities and families adapt to the new demographic structure.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:#222222">Danièle Bélanger is a Professor of Sociology at Western University and holds the Canada Research Chair in Population, Gender and Development.</span><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:#E36C0A">SOCIOLOGY AND LEGAL STUDIES LECTURE SERIES<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:#E36C0A">THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29: 1:00pm
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:#E36C0A">HAGEY HALL 1101<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://arts.uwaterloo.ca/sites/ca.arts/files/eventposters/Belanger%20Talk%20Nov%2029.pdf">https://arts.uwaterloo.ca/sites/ca.arts/files/eventposters/Belanger%20Talk%20Nov%2029.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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