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Introduction
Dr Mohammad Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi is Associate Professor of the Department of Demography and Chair of the Division of Population Research of the University of Tehran; and Associate, Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute (ADSRI), Australian National University (ANU). He has a PhD in Demography from the ANU; and his PhD thesis focused on Fertility Patterns of Immigrant Groups in Australia. During 1998-2000, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Demography Program, ANU; and served as the Head of the Department of Demography of the University of Tehran during 2002-2006. He has been an elected member of the Executive Council of the Population Association of Iran (PAI) since 2001, and was the Secretary General of the Association during 2001-2005. Dr Abbasi is currently a Member of Board of Trustees, International Center for Diarrhoeal Diseases, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B), a member of the International Advisory Board of the journal of Asian Population Studies, and is now the Vice-President of the Asian Population Association.
Research
Dr Abbasi’s main research has been focused on Iran’s fertility transition but he has also worked on other areas including migration/ethnicity and fertility, family change, reproductive health, and Afghan refugees in Iran.
He has completed a comprehensive study of fertility changes in Iran over the last three decades. During 2000-2003, jointly with Professor Peter McDonald, he conducted a three-year Wellcome Trust project on Iran Fertility Transition Survey in collaboration with the Division of Population Research of the University of Tehran and the Iran Ministry of Health in four provinces of Gilan, Sistan and Baluchistan, West Azarbaijan and Yazd. The outcome of this project will soon be published as a book on Reproductive Revolution within the Islamic Revolution: Iran’s fertility Transition by Springer. During 2004-2007, Abbasi and McDonald completed another Wellcome Trust funded project on the social and health consequences of the early cessation of childbearing in Iran which was conducted in four provinces of Gilan, Isfahan, Yazd, and the city of Tehran. In 2006, Dr Abbasi jointly with Professor Djavad Salehi-Isfahani (Economist from Virginia Tech University) was awarded a project grant from the Global Development Network on the Evaluation of the Impact of Health Houses on Family Planning in Rural Areas of Iran.
In addition to fertility, family change, and reproductive health, Dr Abbasi has been involved in a major study of Afghan refugees in Iran. 1n 2004, he was awarded a project grant on Translational Networks on Afghan Refugees in Iran. In collaboration with Dr Glazebrook, Dr Mahmoudian, Dr Jamshidiha, & Rasoul Sadeghi, three case studies were conducted in Tehran, Zahedan and Mashhad cities to investigate the livelihood strategies of Afghan migrants in Iran. In 2007, he completed a project on the Second Generation Afghans in Iran, and prepared a national report on the State of International Migrants and Refugees in Iran.
Publications
Iran’s Fertility Transition
Journal Articles
Abbasi-Shavazi, M.J., Hosseini-Chavoshi, M., and P. McDonald, Forthcoming, The path to below–replacement fertility in Iran, Asia-Pacific Population Journal
Hosseini-Chavoshi, M., McDonald, P. and M.J. Abbasi-Shavazi, 2006, The Iranian Fertility Decline, 1981-1999: an Application of the Synthetic Parity Progression Ratio Method, Population, 61(5-6): 701-718.
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Abbasi-Shavazi, M.J., and P. McDonald, 2006, The fertility decline in the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1972-2000, Asian Population Studies, 2(3): 217-237.
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Abbasi-Shavazi, M.J., McDonald, P. Hosseini-Chavoshi M. and Kaveh Firouz, Z., 2003, Womens' attitudes towards fertility behaviours using qualitative methods in Yazd province, Journal of Social Sciences [Persian], 20: 169-203.
Abbasi-Shavazi, M.J. 2002, Convergence of fertility behaviours in Iran: Provincial fertility levels, trends and patterns in Iran, Social Science Journal (Persian): 18: 201-231.
Abbasi-Shavazi, M.J., Mehryar, A., Jones, G., and McDonald, P. 2002, Revolution, war and modernization: population policy and fertility change in Iran, Journal of Population Research, 19 (1): 25-46. (PDF)
Abbasi-Shavazi, M.J., 2001, Fertility revolution in Iran [in French], Population & Société, INED, November 373: 1-4. (French version, English version)
Abbasi-Shavazi, M.J., 2001, Assessment of the own-children method of estimating fertility in Iran using 1986 and 1996 censuses, Social Science Journal [Persian]: 16(2): 105-135.
Working Papers
Hosseini-Chavoshi, M., McDonald, P., and Abbasi-Shavazi, M.J. 2007, Fertility and Contraceptive Use Dynamics In Iran: Special focus on Low Fertility Regions, Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute, Working Paper No. 1, Australian National University, Canberra. (PDF - 540kb)
Abbasi-Shavazi, M.J., and P. McDonald, 2005, National and provincial-level fertility trends in Iran, 1972-2000, Working Paper in Demography No. 94, Australian National University. (PDF)
Abbasi-Shavazi, M.J., 2000, Effects of marital fertility and nuptiality on fertility transition in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Working Papers in Demography, No. 84, Canberra, ANU. (PDF)
Books
Abbasi-Shavazi, M.J., and P. McDonald, Forthcoming Reproductive Revolution Within the Islamic Revolution: Fertility Transition in Iran, Springer, (expected 2007).
Abbasi-Shavazi, M.J., M Hosseini-Chavoshi, B. Delavar, & P. McDonald, 2004, Fertility transition in Iran: Evidence From Four Selected Provinces, Department of Demography, University of Tehran, Tehran.
Book chapters
McDonald, P. and Abbasi-Shavazi, M. J. 2007, The place of religion in the Iranian fertility transition, in H. James (ed.), Civil Society, Religion and Global Governance. Routledge, New York, PP: 213-218.
Abbasi-Shavazi, M.J., 2005, The rise and fall of fertility in post-revolutionary Iran, In Jones G. and M. Karim (eds.), Islam, the State and Population, C. Hurst & Co. (Publishers), London, pp. 199-217.
Abbasi-Shavazi, M.J., 2002. Recent changes and the future of fertility in Iran, In United Nation’s Population Division, Completing the Fertility Transition, New York, pp: 425-439. (PDF)
Ethnicity/Migration and Fertility
Journal Articles
Abbasi-Shavazi, M.J., and Sadeghi, R. 2007, Ethnicity and Fertility: Analysis of Fertility Behavior of Ethnic Groups in Iran [Persian], Journal of Social Sciences, 29: 29-63.
Abbasi-Shavazi, M.J., and P. McDonald, 2002, A comparison of fertility of European immigrants in Australia with those in the countries of origin, GENUS, 18 (1): 53-76.
Abbasi-Shavazi, M.J., and P. McDonald, 2000, Fertility and Multiculturalism: immigrant fertility in Australia: 1977-91, International Migration Review, 34(1): 215-42.
Abbasi-Shavazi, M.J., 1998, The Fertility of Immigrant Women in Australia, People and Place, 6(3): 30-38.
Abbasi-Shavazi, M.J., 1997. An assessment of the own-children method of estimating fertility by birthplace in Australia, Journal of the Australian Population Association: 14(2): 167-185.
Marriage and Family Change
Journal Articles
Abbasi-Shavazi, M.J., & Torabi, F. Forthcoming, Inter-generational differences of consanguineous marriage in Iran [Persian], Iranian Journal of Sociology
Abbasi-Shavazi, M.J., and Torabi, F., 2007, Levels, trends and patterns of consanguineous marriage in Iran, Journal of the Population Association of Iran 1(2): 61-88.
Abbasi-Shavazi, M.J., and Sadeghi, R. 2005, Ethnicity and family patterns in Iran, Women Studies [Pazhuhis-i zanan], [Persian], Vol. 3 (1): 25-47.
Abbasi-Shavazi, M.J., and Askari-Nodoushan, A. 2005, Family Changes and Fertility decline in Iran: Case study in Yazd province [Persian], Journal of Social Sciences, No. 25: 25-75. (Abstract)
Book chapters
Abbasi-Shavazi, M.J., McDonald, P. and M. Hossein-Chavoshi, Forthcoming, Social Change and the family in post-revolutionary Iran, in Kathryn Yount and Hoda Rashad, Family Ties and Ideals: Portraits of Continuity and Change in Egypt, Iran, and Tunisia".
Abbasi-Shavazi, M.J., and P. McDonald, 2007, Family Change in Iran: Religion, revolution, and the state, in Jayakody, A. Thornton, and W. Axinn (eds.), International Family Change: Ideational Perspectives, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC,PP: 177-198.
Working Papers
Abbasi-Shavazi, M.J., McDonald, P. and M. Hossein-Chavoshi, 2003, Changes in Family, Fertility Behavior and Attitudes in Iran, Working Paper in Demography No. 88, Australian National University. (PDF)
Reproductive Health
Journal Articles
Razeghi, H. B Abbasi-Shavazi, M.J., Inhorn, M. and Toloo, G. Forthcoming, Infertility, IVF, and Gamete Donation in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Journal of Middle East Women's Studies
Abbasi-Shavazi, M.J., H. Razeghi, M. Akhondi, & Z. Behjati, 2006, Attitudes of infertile women towards gamete donation: A case study in Tehran [Persian], Medical Journal of Reproduction and Infertility, 7(2): 139-148.
Abbasi-Shavazi, M.J., A. Asgari-Khanghah and H. Razeghi, 2005, Women and infertility experience: A case study in Tehran [Persian], Journal of Women Studies, 3(3): 91-114.
Abbasi-Shavazi, M.J., and Khademzadeh, A. 2004, Determinants of withdrawal use in Rasht City: A qualitative study [Persian], Medical Journal of Reproduction and Infertility, Vol 5(4):323-337.
Abbasi-Shavazi, M.J., Hosseini-Chavoshi, M. and B. Delavar, 2004, Unwanted pregnancy and its determinants in Iran [Persian], Medical Journal of Reproduction and Infertility, Vol. 5(1): pp. 62-76. (Abstract)
Abbasi-Shavazi, M.J., Hosseini-Chavoshi M., B. Delavar, A. Mehryar and A. Aghajanian, 2004, Unintended Pregnancies in the Islamic Republic of Iran: Levels and Correlates, Asia-Pacific Population Journal, 19 (1): 27-38. (PDF)
Book chapters
Abbasi-Shavazi, MJ., M. Hosseini-Chavoshi, M. Koosheshi, and M. Naghavi, 2005, Trends and emerging issues of health and mortality in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Emerging Issues of Health in Mortality in the Asia and Pacific Region, United Nation Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, New York. pp 147-160. (PDF)
Afghan Refugees
Journal Articles
Glazebrook, D., and Abbasi-Shavazi, M.J. 2007, Being neighbours to Imam Reza: Pilgrimage practice and return intentions of Hazara Afghans living in Mashhad, Iran, Journal of Iranian Studies, 40(2): 188-201.
Working Papers/Research Reports
Abbasi-Shavazi, M.J., Glazebrook, G. Jamshidiha, H. Mahmoudian, & R. Sadeghi, 2007, Second generation Afghans in Iran: Integration, identity and return, Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU), Kabul.
Abbasi-Shavazi, M.J, H. Mahmoudian et al. 2007, The State of International Migrants and Refugees in Iran, Unpublished report, United Nations Fund for Population, & United Nations High Commission for Refugees, Tehran, Iran.
Monsouti, A. Abbasi-Shavazi, M.J. et al. 2006, Afghan transnational networks: Looking beyond repatriation, Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU), Kabul.
Abbasi-Shavazi, M.J., and Glazebrook, G. 2006, Continued protection, sustainable reintegration: Afghan refugees and migrants in Iran: Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU), Kabul. (PDF)
Abbasi-Shavazi, M.J., Glazebrook, G. Jamshidiha, H. Mahmoudian, & R. Sadeghi, 2005, Return to Afghanistan? A study of Afghans living in Tehran, Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU), Kabul. (PDF)
Abbasi-Shavazi, M.J., Glazebrook, G. Jamshidiha, H. Mahmoudian, & R. Sadeghi, 2005, Return to Afghanistan? A study of Afghans living in Mashhad, Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU), Kabul. (PDF)
Abbasi-Shavazi, M.J., Glazebrook, G. Jamshidiha, H. Mahmoudian, & R. Sadeghi, 2005, Return to Afghanistan? A study of Afghans living in Zahedan, Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU), Kabul. (PDF)
Other publications
Journal Articles
Abbasi-Shavazi, M.J., and Jones, G. 2005, Socio-economic and demographic setting of Muslim populations, In Jones G. and M. Karim (eds), Islam, the State and Population Policy, C. Hurst & Co. (Publishers), London., pp. 1-39. (Working paper PDF)
Abbasi-Shavazi, M.J., and Kaveh Firouz, Z., 2004, Analysis of Demographic Thesis in Iran: Past Issues and Future Needs [Persian], Journal of Population, 43-44: 1-24.
Abbasi-Shavazi, M.J.,1999, Advantages and problems of the own-children method of estimating fertility using census data [Persian], Journal of Population, 29-30: 1-21 .
Book/chapters
Abbasi-Shavazi, M.J., and Kaveh Firouz, Z., 2004, Analysis of Demographic Theses in Iran during 1961-2001: An Annotated bibliography, Center for Population Research in the Asia and the Pacific, & the University of Tehran, Tehran. [BOOK].
Abbasi-Shavazi, M.J., and Kaveh Firouz, Z., 2004, Population Policy change and its impact on fertility in Iran, Proceeding of the 1st Conference of the Population Association of Iran, Tehran, pp: 371-396.
Abbasi-Shavazi, M.J., and Rajabzadeh, A. 1993, Sociology of Population, Ministry of Education, Iran. [HIGH SCHOOL TEXT BOOK]
Updated October 2007
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