I obtained a B.Sc. degree in Sociology from Imo State University, Okigwe, Imo State, Nigeria in 1987; an M.Sc. degree in Sociology from the University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria in 1990; and an M.A. in Sociology from Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA in 2004. I am currently in the Doctoral Program of the department of Sociology, Brown University. Professionally I was a Graduate Assistant in 1988 at Abia State University, Uturu, Nigeria, and rose through promotion to become a Senior Lecturer in Sociology between 1999 and 2002. I was a research intern at the African Population and Health Research Center in Nairobi, Kenya between September 2004 and August 2005. My most recent research publications include:1. Mberu, B.U. (2006). Internal Migration and Household Living Conditions in Ethiopia. Demographic Research, 14 (21): 509-540;2. Mberu, B.U. (2005). Who Moves and Who Stays? Rural Out-Migration in Nigeria. Journal of Population Research, 22 (2): 141-161.3. Mberu, B.U. (2007). Household Structure and Living Conditions in Nigeria. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 69 (May 2007): 513–527