Hi Irina,
I am a graduate student in HCI at Carnegie Mellon University and am starting my dissertation on the topic of residential mobility as a natural experiment on the health of social ties (how people use/don't use technology for keeping in touch and creating new relationships and whether
There is some research in HIV/AIDS that shows strong reliance on technology to share treatment information. Your work might be easier if you picked a particular illness and looked at the literature from that point of view.
they are successful). I am specifically interested in migration within country, not international migration. I was wondering if anyone knows of
Also within HIV/AIDS, many migrate to large cities as these tend to have speciality clinics, more social services and community resources. I don't know of any literature on this, the information is more anecdotal. Laura _ Laura O'Grady Ph.D. Candidate OISE / University of Toronto Toronto, ON, Canada http://fcis.oise.utoronto.ca/~logrady/ logrady@oise.utoronto.ca l.ogrady@sympatico.ca _