Hispanics and the Future of America presents details of the complex story of a populationthat varies in many dimensions, including national origin, immigration status,and generation.
Preparing for the Challenges of Population Aging in Asia discusses the challenges posed by a rapidly aging population and identifies needed research to help policymakers better respond to them.
In the early 1990s, the Census Bureau proposed a program of continuous measurement as a possible alternative to the gathering of detailed social, economic, and housing data from a sample of the U.
Hispanics and the Future of America presents details of the complex story of a populationthat varies in many dimensions, including national origin, immigration status,and generation.
The census coverage measurement programs have historically addressed three primary objectives: (1) to inform users about the quality of the census counts; (2) to help identify sources of error to improve census taking, and (3) to provide alternative counts based on information from the coverage measurement program.
It is easy to underestimate how little was known about crimes and victims before the findings of the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) became common wisdom.
This book provides concrete scientific basis that we can conceive the possibility of modifying or even completely canceling aging process, despite the fact that aging is commonly regarded as the result of the overall effects of many uncontrollable degenerative phenomena.
This book clarifies how globalization, progress in the knowledge-based economy, and demographic change affect regional economic growth, using the latest analytical methods for economic growth.
Popular notions about migration to the United States from Latin America and the Caribbean are too often distorted by memories of earlier European migrations and by a tendency to generalize from the more familiar cases of Mexico and Puerto Rico.
Winner of the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political WritingFinalist for the Governor Generals Literary Award for Non-fiction and theTrillium Book AwardA Globe and Mail, National Post, Toronto Life, Walrus, CBC Books,Chatelaine, Hill Times,49th Shelf and Writers Trust Best Book of the YearWith the urgency and passion of Ta-Nehisi Coates (Between the World and Me), the seductive storytelling of J.
La expansión de las nuevas tecnologías de la información y la comunicación y el impulso renovado a la apertura de los intercambios comerciales entre las naciones son datos que parecerían confirmar que la «globalización» del planeta, el paso de escalas nacionales y regionales a una escala global de intercambios y de relaciones, es algo reciente.
En la última década del siglo xv, los desembarcos de Cristóbal Colón en Guanahaní y de Vasco da Gama en Calicut inauguraron el Primer Orden Mundial de alcance planetario y, también, la globalización.
This book gathers peer-review contributions to the 5th International Workshop on Gerontechnology, IWoG 2022, held on November 17-18, 2022, in Evora, Portugal, and in Caceres, Spain.
Der demografische Wandel macht auch vor den Gefängnistoren nicht halt: Seit den 1990er-Jahren hat sich die Anzahl der über 60-Jährigen in Justizvollzugsanstalten nahezu vervierfacht, gleichzeitig ist die Anzahl der Inhaftierten seit Jahren rückläufig.
Este libro se refiere a aquellos lugares que se crean por coyunturas particulares en periodos cortos de tiempo y, en buena medida, de manera espontánea, en los espacios públicos urbanos a cielo abierto, en los que se manifiestan distintas formas de sociabilidad.
In den vergangenen drei Jahrzehnten sind die Anteile befristeter Beschäftigungsverhältnisse bei jungen Erwachsenen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und in anderen spätkapitalistischen Gesellschaften deutlich angestiegen.
Der Band skizziert Seniorenwirtschaft als einen vielfältigen Bereich des Wirtschaftens, der sich im Kern mit dem Management von Dienst- und Versorgungsleistungen befasst, die für interessierte und bedürftige ältere Menschen und Hochbetagte am Markt angeboten und von ihnen in Anspruch genommen werden.
This issue explores how Pacific developing member countries can strengthen their post-pandemic social protection systems to help address long-standing development concerns and boost resilience to further shocks.
Since around 1980, fewer Americans than before are doing better than their parents had that is, more are experiencing downward social and economic mobility in terms of occupational status and income.
This Fourth Edition of a pioneering book provides a critical analysis of the origins and evolution of political and policy debates regarding race and racism in British society.
This book focuses on the dynamic process of aging and on interventions to support the development of older and integrated societies, from a multidisciplinary point of view.
Das Buch zeigt aus einer rassismuskritischen Perspektive die Konstitution von (‚kultursensiblen‘) Altenpflegeheimen sowie darin eingelassene Subjekte und Adressierungen.
Demnächst wird die Erde acht Milliarden Menschen beherbergen – in Anbetracht von begrenzten Ressourcen, Klimawandelund Umweltzerstörung ein Grund zur Sorge.
This book gathers the outcomes of various, extensive research efforts on building a moderately prosperous society in minority areas, which would allow China's poor and poverty-stricken areas to comprehensively join the rest of society.
Structural racism refers to the public and private policies, institutional practices, norms, and cultural representations that inherently create unequal freedom, opportunity, value, resources, advantage, restrictions, constraints, or disadvantage for individuals and populations according to their race and ethnicity both across the life course and between generations.
