Gavin Jones’ scholarship on divorce in Asia: understanding trends, patterns, and implications

• Main Authors: Dommaraju, Premchand, Hu, Shu
• Other Authors: School of Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2024
• Subjects: Social Sciences; Marraige; Divorce
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/179489
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper highlights Professor Gavin Jones' seminal work on Asian divorce patterns, with a particular focus on Southeast Asia's Muslim communities. Beginning in the 1980s, Jones addressed the challenges of fragmented and often unreliable demographic data on divorce. With careful compilati...