Mehtab S. Karim (Aga Khan University)

Dr. Mehtab S. Karim
Professor
Aga Khan University
Stadium Road
Karachi, PAKISTAN

phone: 92/21-4859-4824
fax:   92/21-493-4294
email: mehtab.karim@aku.edu

Description of work:

Dr. Karim is Professor of  Demography and Head Population & Reproductive 
Health Program and The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan.  By 
training he is a Sociologist/Demographer.  He completed his higher 
secondary education from the State of Bihar, India; BA Honours (in 
Sociology, Economics and History), from the University of Karachi, 
Pakistan; MA in Social Sciences from University of Chicago, USA and; Ph.D. 
in Sociology/Demography from Cornell University, USA.   He worked at the 
Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, Islamabad,   East-West Centre 
in Hawaii and has been on the faculty of the Aga Khan University since 
1983.  While on sabbatical leave from Aga Kahn University he was a 
Research Fellow at Population Research & Training Centre, Brown University 
and  National Institutes of Health (1990-91); a consultant to the World 
Bank, infrastructure Division (1991-93); Lead Researcher of UNFPA funded 
research project  on Reproductive Behaviour in Muslim Countries (1996-97) 
and Senior Associate, Department of population Dynamics, School of Public 
Health at Johns Hopkins University (1996-98).  

One of Professor Karim's main research interests is in the study of 
migration and he has several publications on the topic.  During 1998-99, 
he was awarded a fellowship by the Asia Research Center, London School of 
Economics where he completed a monograph on 'Migration between India and 
Pakistan and its socioeconomic and demographic consequences'.  In 2002 he 
received funding from United Nations to complete a monograph on Migration 
in Pakistan (both internal and international) based on in-depth analysis 
of  Pakistan's  1998 Census data. In 1986, he co-edited a book on 
Migration in Pakistan (Vanguard Books) and has published several articles 
on patterns and consequences of migration in Pakistan.  Recently he 
co-edited a book on "Islam, the State and Population Issues" (in Press, 
Hearst Publishers, London).  His current resarch interest is on Historical 
and Contemporary Issues related to Migration and socioeconomic and 
demographic status of Muslims in South Asia.