Population Studies and Development from Theory to Fieldwork

1. Front Matter

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2. A Theory and Its Application

   • Véronique Petit

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3. A Theory for Developing Countries

   • Yves Charbit, Véronique Petit

   Pages 7-39

4. Responding to Poverty in Rural Guinea

   • Aurélie Godard-Marceau, Barbara Meffe, Véronique Petit

   Pages 41-58

5. Socioeconomic Strategies and Ethnic Dynamics in Maritime Guinea

   • Véronique Petit, Aurélie Godard-Marceau

   Pages 59-74

6. Education Confronted by Rural Poverty

   • Alhassane Balde

   Pages 75-87

7. The Motors of Change in Seismic Risk Management Policy in Turkey: The Multidimensional Nature of Response

   • Nazan Cömert-Baechler

   Pages 89-108

8. Sociodemographic Pressure on Land in Madagascar

   • Mustapha Omrane

   Pages 109-132

9. Female Genital Mutilations and Population Policy in Djibouti

   • Véronique Petit

   Pages 133-147

10. The Policy of Reducing Provincial Inequalities in New Caledonia

    • Laure Hadj

    Pages 149-172

11. Individuals, Families and Development Policy in Reunion

    • Franck Temporal

    Pages 173-191

12. The Failure of Family Planning in Mauritian “Cités”

    • Sarah Hillcoat-Nalletamby

    Pages 193-204

13. Young People’s Ambiguous and Complex Responses on HIV/AIDS in Cameroon

    • Lucas Tchetgnia

    Pages 205-224

14. From Research to Action

    • Yves Charbit, Véronique Petit

    Pages 225-236

This book addresses major population and development issues: fertility and reproductive health, migrations, gender, education, poverty and inequalities. To that aim it revisits and considerably enlarges Kingsley Davis’ 1963 theory of change and response, using interdisciplinary methodologies. On the basis of four decades of field research (1985-2015), it questions the rationality of the actors, how culture shapes socio-demographic behaviours, in a context of modernity and globalisation. More specifically, it casts new light on the interactions of individuals, families, networks and local communities with the State and its population policy.

• Anthropological demography
• Poverty
• Reproductive health
• Population policies
• Interdisciplinary methodologies

• CEPED, Paris Descartes University, Paris, France

  Véronique Petit

After graduating in social anthropology and demography, Véronique Petit became a Professor of demography at the University Paris Descartes. She belongs to the Centre Population and Development. Specialized in demography of developing countries, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. Her research works concerned mainly two fields research: reproductive health (contraception, female genital mutilations, population policies) and international migrations (remittances, return migrations, mental health of migrants). She is the chief editor of the major francophone revue on international migrations, the Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales. She also contributes to promote the new field of anthropological demography. She had already published with Springer a book about the stake of interdisciplinarity in social sciences: Counting Population. Understanding societies (2013).

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