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648 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. 6 (2013)

handle is hein.cow/anamacp0648 and id is 1 raw text is: INTRODUCTION Youth Migration and Transitions to Adulthood in Developing Countries By FATIMA JUAREZ, THOMAS LEGRAND, CYNTHIA B. LLOYD, SUSHEELA SINGH, and VERONIQUE HERTRICH Currently, it is estimated that there are 1.1 billion young people aged 15-24 in the developing world, accounting for nearly one- fifth (18.6 percent) of the total population Fatima Judrez is a professor at the Center for Demographic, Urban, and Environmental Studies, El Colegio de Mexico. She is member of the governing council of the IUSSP Council, member of the Advisory Board on the Population Policies of the National Council of Population of Mexico. Her research focuses on reproluctive health in developing countries (includ- ing clndlestine abortion and HI V/AIDS), in particular among adolescents. Thomas LeGrand is chair of the Universit6 de Montreal Demography Department, vice president of the Canadian Federation of Demographers, and a member of the gov ening council of the IUSSP His research focuee on d&eveloping countries (mostly Africa), repro- ductive lalth, transitions to adulthood, linkages beteen jrtility and mortality, and population and development. Cynthia B. Lloyd is consulting senior associate for the Population Council and an independent research con- sultant for various international agencies and founda- tions. She is the author of fifty-five articles and more than twenty books and monographs. She is best known for her role as chair of the National Academy of Sciences' Panel on Transitions to Adulthood in Developing Countries and editor of a book resulting from this role: Growing up Global: the Changing Transitions to Adulthood in Developing Countries (The National Academies Press 2005). Susheela Singh oversees research at the Guttmacher Institute. Her expertise is in social and demographic research on sexual and reproductive health, areas in which she has published extensively. Her current areas of international research include adolescent sexual health, unintended pregnancy, abortion, and the costs and benefits of reproductive health care in developing countries. Veronique Hertrich heads the methodological unit on developing countries (Pole Suds) at the Frenc h National Institute for Demographic Studies (INEDI/France), and is a member of the governing council of the IUSSP. Her main fields of research relate to population, marriage, and family changes in sub-Saharan Africa from a gen- der perspective. DOT: 101177/0002716213485052 ANNALS, AAPSS, 648, July 2013 6

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