The process of adjustment/acculturation of first and second generation of migrants: the case of nomad Qashqaee Turks immigrants in Shiraz-Iran • Amir Mohammad Amiri, Shiraz University, Iran ; Ali Ashgar Moghadas, Shiraz University, Iran ; Ali Rahimi, Kashan University, Iran

Intimate relationships of disabled men and women in France • Maks Banens, Université Lyon 2

Migrant associations as actors in development? A national event-history analysis in Burkina Faso • Cris Beauchemin, Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED) ; Bruno D. Schoumaker, Université Catholique de Louvain

Impact of macro-level economic improvement on child health: childhood malnutrition in Ghana, 1988-2003 • Jemima A. Frimpong, University of Pennsylvania ; Roland Pongou, Brown University

Utilization of maternal care services in rural India: An analysis of differentials and determinants • Jareena Shaik, Sri Venkateswara University ; Ramachandran Paida, Sri Venkateswara Univeristy

Pathways to 'off-time' motherhood in the United Kingdom: the timing and sequencing of childhood antecedents • Maria C. Huerta, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) ; Wendy Sigle-Rushton, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Impact of family relations on health and mortality in contemporary Bulgaria (post-communism: the fight for the souls) • Marta Sugareva, Bulgarian Academy of sciences

Preferences of the elderly towards intergenerational transfers - Stumbling block for future social policy reforms in Germany? • Harald Wilkoszewski, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research