Overview
- Provides an in-depth analysis of anti-sex selection policies
- Includes 117 key informant interviews, participant observations and demographic data analysis
- Results point to policy inefficiency and the limitations of policy transfer
- Relevant for academics and practitioners concerned with gender equality
Part of the book series: Demographic Transformation and Socio-Economic Development (DTSD, volume 11)
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This book provides an in-depth analysis of the influence of public policy on sex selection. Three Asian countries were chosen for the comparative policy analysis, namely South Korea, India and Vietnam that share in common a historical legacy of son preference, high levels of sex imbalances and active policy response to curbing the growing demographic masculinization of their nations. The research based on the data collected from field work in the three countries shows that despite the adoption of very similar anti-sex selection policies the outcomes have been markedly different for each of the three countries. These unexpected diverse outcomes are explained partly by their different historical and cultural contexts, and partly to the different social, political and economic institutions and dynamics. This monograph offers careful and detailed explanations of both within and across country diversities in policy outcomes, pointing to the importance and the limits of cross-national policylearning and adoption, and raising questions about the efficacy of international organizations’ current approaches to global policy and knowledge transfer.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Laura Rahm is Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Sociology at the Center for Population and Development (CEPED). She specializes in public policies and programs against son preference, gender-biased sex selection and other harmful practices. Her recent publications appeared in Population and Development Review, Critique Internationale, and Men and Masculinities Journal. Laura holds a Masters in International Relations from the University of Passau and a PhD in Political Sociology and Demography from Sorbonne University Paris. She serves as a consultant and trainer in the first Global Programme to Prevent Son Preference and Gender-biased Sex Selection carried out by UNFPA with funding from the EU.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Gender-Biased Sex Selection in South Korea, India and Vietnam
Book Subtitle: Assessing the Influence of Public Policy
Authors: Laura Rahm
Series Title: Demographic Transformation and Socio-Economic Development
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20234-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-20233-0Published: 29 July 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-20236-1Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-20234-7Published: 18 July 2019
Series ISSN: 2543-0041
Series E-ISSN: 2543-0068
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 340
Number of Illustrations: 53 b/w illustrations
Topics: Demography, Development and Social Change, Population Economics, Gender Studies, Asian Politics