Population and demography

Drawing on the interdisciplinary research projects of scholars from various social science and humanities disciplines, this book explores how African migration to Western countries after the neo-liberal economic reforms of the 1980s transformed West African states and their new transnational populations in Western countries.

The remarkable changes in fertility, nuptiality, and mortality that have occurred in the People's Republic of China from the early 1950s to 1982 are summarized in this report.

Why are poor Americans so patriotic?

European countries, including the DIALOG countries, have faced a major de- graphic change and transition in the last thirty years.

A Primer of Population Dynamics introduces to the basics of population studies.

Over the decades, the Holocaust has remained a critical issue both historically and politically.

This book addresses the socioeconomic effects of immigration to Sweden.

Indian Anthropology: Anthropological Discourse in Bombay 1886-1936 is an important contribution to the history of Indian anthropology, focusing on its formative period.

How do you count a nation of more than 250 million peoplemany of whom are on the move and some of whom may not want to be counted?

This book evaluates changes needed to improve the usefulness and cost-effectiveness of the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP).

In this provocative volume, distinguished authorities on urban policy expose the myths surrounding today's "e;infrastructure crisis"e; in urban public works.

First published in 1982, this collection was the result of an ambitious and wide-ranging, inter-disciplinary research programme conducted by the International Labour Office (ILO) on the relationship between women's roles and demographic change, with a view to influencing contemporary government and non-government policy and future research in the field.

La démographie sert de baromètre à la nation.

This book aims to show how the multilevel approach successfully overcomes the divisions that emerged during the rise of the social sciences- specifically, here, demography and statistics-from the seventeenth century to the present.

Theodore Dalrymple's new book of essays follows on the extraordinary success of his earlier collections, Life at the Bottom and Our Culture, What's Left of It.

Migration is a politically sensitive topic and an important aspect of contentious debates about social and cultural diversity, economic stability, terrorism, globalization, and nationalism.

This book provides the reader with a comprehensive introduction to the distinguishing features of Chinese families.

An analysis of the decline of infant mortality and fertility in Britain, 1891–1911.

A trusted classic on the key methods in population sampling now in a modernized and expanded new edition Sampling of Populations, Fourth Edition continues to serve as an all-inclusive resource on the basic and most current practices in population sampling.

Sustainability of pension systems, intergeneration fiscal equity under population aging, and accounting for health care benefits for future retirees are examples of problems that cannot be solved without understanding the nature of population forecasts and their uncertainty.

Today, concerns about the financial stability of Social Security, trends in disability, health care costs, and the supply of caregivers are all driven by the coming explosion in the number of people over the age of 65.

Mosk shows how population quality provides a key to understanding economic growth and social change in Japan.

How does migration change a nation?

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Die Entwicklung der sorbischen Bevölkerung von 1832 bis 1945" verfügbar.

This book follows a cohort of seriously delinquent girls and boys over twenty years, documenting the effects of their criminal involvement on their children.

This volume was developed to meet a much noted need for accessible case study material for courses in human ecology, cultural ecology, cultural geography, and other subjects increasingly offered to fulfill renewed student and faculty interest in environmental issues.

Portrait of America describes our nation's changing population and examines through a demographic lens some of our most pressing contemporary challenges, ranging from poverty and economic inequality to racial tensions and health disparities.

First published in 1972, this reissue deals with the crucial issue of population explosion, one of the most crucial problems facing the contemporary developing world.

This book describes the assimilation and acculturation of a small minority who immigrated to the United States in the nineteenth century and again in the twentieth century.

One of the most important demographic issues of our time is the increasing age of women at motherhood.

This book examines the history of the generational gap in American politics, with an emphasis on the remarkable contemporary gap.

The colonial legacy in the construction of the modern Indian state has left a deep imprint on contemporary Indians' self-identity and self-determination.

Population is the most influential factor in social development and economic growth, especially in China.

This book explores the law and legal system's impact on older persons.

This book is devoted to Corrado Gini, father of the Italian statistical school.

By 1300, medieval men and women were beginning to measure multitude, counting, for example, numbers of boys and girls being baptized.

"e;Nations Are Built of Babies"e; documents a national campaign by Ontario physicians to reduce infant and maternal mortality in the early twentieth century.

This book investigates demographic behaviour and population trends in Italy during the emergence of the Roman Empire.

This edited volume focuses on social welfare and medicine within the French Empire and brings together important currents in both imperial history and the history of medicine.

This volume presents a collection of studies focussing on population and settlement patterns in the Roman empire in the perspective of the economic development of the Mediterranean world between 100 BC and AD 350.

This book analyses the most recent socio-territorial trends that are developing in the Spanish metropolitan space.

By the end of the 20th century, the ethnic question had resurfaced in public debate.

With a growing population, rising housing costs and housing providers struggling to meet demand for affordable accommodation, more and more people in the UK find themselves sharing their living spaces with people from outside of their families at some point in their lives.

Epidemiology and Demography in Public Health provides practical guidance on planning and implementing surveillance and investigation of disease and disease outbreaks.

Starting with a working definition, this comprehensive work defines the attributes of the population health model.

Benefiting from Montreal's remarkable archival records, Sherry Olson and Patricia Thornton use an ingenious sampling of twelve surnames to track the comings and goings, births, deaths, and marriages of the city's inhabitants.

This book focuses on global mobility and the worldwide articulation of family life, understood as dimensions of social change that come off from the private sphere of individuals and reverberate to the point of transforming the composition of national populations.

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