Mjiang94

I am an economics fourth-year undergraduate specializing in economics of education. I am particularly interested in non-traditional views of economics that include women, minorities, and other marginalized groups that do not fit into the traditional "representative rational agent" view of economics. I feel current economics tends to ignore the well-being and perspectives of these groups, and I find that incredibly problematic. As a student in Feminist Economics and Public Policy, I will be contributing to Wikipedia as a first-time user and am incredibly excited to join the community!

Potential Topics for Feminist Economics and Public Policy Wikipedia Assignment

Topic Proposal 1: Missing women of Asia

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_women_of_Asia

I would like to rewrite/add to this article. Currently, the article focuses on general causes of missing women (rather than specifics on Asia), and tends to be biased to Sen’s theory. Furthermore, since there is no parent article for “missing women,” this article is functionally the general Wikipedia entry for missing women. Thus, I would like to expand upon (a) the violence, human trafficking, and disease components of the missing women phenomenon, (b) missing women in Africa (of which there are many studies that are not mentioned), and (c) solutions to the missing woman problem, which currently are not addressed in this article. Finally, a lot of authors in the citations have updated their works – for example, Ebenstein released a new 2010 study on the same issue, which would be an update of the 2007 article. Thus, reworking some of the old content to reflect new conclusions would also be useful.

References

Anderson, S., & Ray, D. (2012). The age distribution of missing women in India. Economic and Political Weekly, 47(47-48), 87-95.

Bélanger, D. (2010). Marriages with foreign women in East Asia: bride trafficking or voluntary migration?. Population & Societies, (469), 1.

Ebenstein, A. (2010). The “missing girls” of China and the unintended consequences of the one child policy. Journal of Human Resources, 45(1), 87-115.

Gupta, M. D.. (2005). Explaining Asia's "Missing Women": A New Look at the Data. Population and Development Review, 31(3), 529–535. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/3401477

Heise, Lori. "Violence against women: the missing agenda." The health of women: A global perspective 123 (1993).

Hesketh, T., & Xing, Z. W. (2006). Abnormal sex ratios in human populations: causes and consequences. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 103(36), 13271-13275.

Jewkes, R. K., Dunkle, K., Nduna, M., & Shai, N. (2010). Intimate partner violence, relationship power inequity, and incidence of HIV infection in young women in South Africa: a cohort study. The Lancet, 376(9734), 41-48.

Jiwani, Y., & Young, M. L. (2006). Missing and murdered women: Reproducing marginality in news discourse. Canadian Journal of Communication, 31(4), 895.

Qian, N. (2006). Missing women and the price of tea in China: The effect of sex-specific earnings on sex imbalance.

Truong, T. D., & Angels, M. B. (2005). Searching for best practices to counter human trafficking in Africa: A focus on women and children. UNESCO, Project to fight human trafficking in Africa.

Watts, C., & Zimmerman, C. (2002). Violence against women: global scope and magnitude. The lancet, 359(9313), 1232-1237.

Topic Proposal 2: Female immigration

I would like to write a new article for immigration focusing on women. While there are very specific articles in Wikipedia currently such as “Latina women and their migrations to America” and “Mail-order brides”, there is no overall article for female immigration. Furthermore, the parent articles of “Immigration” and “Immigration to the United States” (despite having ratings of C and B class, high importance) barely mention women, which is analysis that should exist. I’d like to section the article with the following topics: (a) General statistics on female migration (does it tend to flow from rich to poor countries, or vice versa?), (b) Employment prospects for immigrant women, (c) Domestic violence concerns with female immigration, and (d) Mail-order brides. I’d also be willing to narrow this topic down to female immigration to the United States.

References

Ahmad, F., Shik, A., Vanza, R., Cheung, A. M., George, U., & Stewart, D. E. (2005). Voices of South Asian women: immigration and mental health.Women & health, 40(4), 113-130.

Davila, A., & Saenz, R. (1990). The effect of maquiladora employment on the monthly flow of mexican undocumented immigration to the US, 1978-1982.International Migration Review, 96-107.

Erez, E., Adelman, M., & Gregory, C. (2008). Intersections of immigration and domestic violence: Voices of battered immigrant women. Feminist criminology.

Houstoun, M. F., Kramer, R. G., & Barrett, J. M. (1984). Female predominance in immigration to the United States since 1930: A first look.International Migration Review, 908-963.

Kawaguchi, D., & Lee, S. (2012). Brides for sale: Cross-border marriages and female immigration. Harvard Business School Research Paper, (12-082).

Kofman, Eleonore. "Female'birds of passage'a decade later: Gender and immigration in the European Union." International migration review (1999): 269-299.

Narayan, U. (1995). “Male‐Order” Brides: Immigrant Women, Domestic Violence and Immigration Law. Hypatia, 10(1), 104-119.

Peffer, G. A. (1992). From under the Sojourner's Shadow: A Historiographical Study of Chinese Female Immigration to America, 1852-1882. Journal of American Ethnic History, 41-67.

Peffer, G. A. (1999). If they don't bring their women here: Chinese female immigration before Exclusion. University of Illinois Press.

Simon, R. J., & Brettell, C. B. (1986). International migration: the female experience.

Zhou, M. (2002). Contemporary female immigration to the United States: A demographic profile. Women Immigrants in the United States. Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Current work

I will be working on editing the article "Missing women of Asia." Any feedback and criticism would be welcome!