Sex Ratio Imbalances in Asia: An Ongoing Conversation Between Anthropologists and Demographers

Guilmoto, Christophe Z.

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“… 13 Cai and Lavely 2003; Cai 2014; Coale and Banister 1994; Goodkind 2009; Zeng et al 1996; Guilmoto 2012. …”

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Missing Girls or Hidden Girls? A Comment on Shi and Kennedy's “Delayed Registration and Identifying the ‘Missing Girls’ in China”

Cai¹

2017

The China Quarterly

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In a recent article published in this journal, Yaojiang Shi and John Kennedy suggest that China's missing girls problem is much more a statistical artefact than previously known. According to their analysis, unreported female births, or hidden girls, account for 73 per cent of the 15 million missing girls from the 1990–2010 birth cohorts in the 2010 census. Their conclusion is based in part on their fieldwork, but the numerical estimate is grounded on their understanding and analyses of Chinese census data. While the insights from their fieldwork – that China's political system leaves ample room for data manipulation and delayed registration – cannot be faulted, Shi and Kennedy's analyses of Chinese census data are questionable and their conclusion is in contradiction with the “missing girls” shown in other data sources. In this short note, I present three lines of evidence to challenge Shi and Kennedy's conclusion: one from the censuses, one from official education statistics, and one from survey data. For the sake of clarity, I use two terms to describe missing girls: nominal missing – the number of missing girls as revealed by population statistics, and truly missing – the number of missing girls excluding those hidden (unreported) girls. My conclusion backs the conventional wisdom about the missing girls phenomenon in China: the elevated sex ratios in Chinese population, or “missing girls,” is not a statistical artefact, but a real social challenge that China has to face for now and for the foreseeable future.

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Missing Girls or Hidden Girls? A Comment on Shi and Kennedy's “Delayed Registration and Identifying the ‘Missing Girls’ in China”

Cai¹

2017

The China Quarterly

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“…Analysing the relative numbers of boys and girls observed in published birth statistics and population censuses provides crucial hints about the prevalence of discriminatory practices that unduly increased mortality among females (Sen 1990;Das Gupta et al 2003;Klasen and Wink 2003;Jayachandran 2015;Guilmoto 2018).…”

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Sex ratios and gender discrimination in Modern Greece

Tapia

Raftakis

2021

Population Studies

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This paper argues that son preference resulted in gender-based discriminatory practices that unduly increased mortality rates for females at birth and throughout infancy and childhood in nineteenth-and early-twentieth-century Greece. The relative numbers of boys and girls at birth was extremely high and under-registration of females cannot on its own explain this result. The infanticide and/or mortal neglect of infant girls was therefore more common than previously acknowledged. Likewise, sex ratios increased as children grew older, thus suggesting that parents continued to treat boys and girls differently throughout childhood. A large body of qualitative evidence (contemporary accounts, folklore traditions, feminist newspapers, and anthropological studies) further supports the conclusion that girls were neglected due to their inferior status in society.

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“…In China, the government's one-child policy further exacerbated the gender imbalance. As a result, many areas in Asia experience a significant shortage of women of marriageable age, with a gender ratio of 130 males to every 100 women in some parts of northern India and China (The Economist 2010, Guilmoto 2007, Hvistendahl 2012, Tiefenbrun & Edwards 2008. This unmet demand for women as brides, or simply as sexual partners, has led, in turn, to a new wave of female migration and, in some cases, bridal trafficking or enslavement.…”

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Modern Trafficking, Slavery, and Other Forms of Servitude

Patterson

Zhuo

2018

Annu. Rev. Sociol.

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The claim that there has been a remarkable revival of slavery, other forms of forced labor, and human trafficking in our times has inspired widespread activism and a vast body of popular and academic works. Although the conflation of terms, exaggerated empirical claims, and a shortage of evidence-based work have prompted legitimate scholarly skepticism, modern trafficking and forms of servitude do present urgent problems for researchers, lawmakers and reformers. We first clarify the most basic terms in the field—servitude, forced labor, slavery, trafficking, and smuggling—then examine all forms of servitude and evaluate the degree to which they properly amount to slavery or result from trafficking. This is followed by an examination of methodological problems in the measurement of types of servitude and a brief analysis of the factors accounting for its contemporary revival. We aim to encourage more scholarly enquiries from sociologists who are uniquely qualified to explore this problem.

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Sex Ratio Imbalances in Asia: An Ongoing Conversation Between Anthropologists and Demographers

Cited by 6 publications

References 33 publications

Missing Girls or Hidden Girls? A Comment on Shi and Kennedy's “Delayed Registration and Identifying the ‘Missing Girls’ in China”

Missing Girls or Hidden Girls? A Comment on Shi and Kennedy's “Delayed Registration and Identifying the ‘Missing Girls’ in China”

Sex ratios and gender discrimination in Modern Greece

Modern Trafficking, Slavery, and Other Forms of Servitude

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