Population and demography

Stand lange das Subjekt im Fokus des Integrationsdiskurses, nehmen vermehrt Migrant:innenOrganisationen eine zentrale Position im Kampf um die Deutungsmacht dieses Übergangs ein.

Social cohesion has had different meanings for people depending on their background, their interests, where they live in the world, and at what time they lived.

This book dissects the reproductive intentions and behaviours of the one-child generation cohort in China, situated in the wider context of changing family life patterns and gendered lenses.

With the collapse of Demographic Transition Theory, new theories of population must not just be explanations, but should be falsifiable theories which can compute the number of occurrences of marriages and births.

As people around the globe experience more civil unrest and environmental disruption, the difficulties social workers face in their practice are becoming increasingly complex.

Population Geography: Social Justice for a Sustainable World surveys the ways in which geographic approaches may be applied to population issues, exploring how human populations are embedded in natural and social environments.

Sonja Bastin gibt einen umfassenden Überblick über die Partnerschaftsdynamik junger alleinerziehender Mütter in Deutschland.

Despite having similar economies and political systems, high-income nations show persistent diversity.

In this book new mathematical and statistical techniques that permit more sophisticated analysis are refined and applied to questions of current concern in order to understand the forces that are driving the recent dramatic changes in family patterns.

This edited volume offers state-of-the-art research on the dynamics of contemporary fertility by examining the implications of the economic and social forces that are driving the rapid change in fertility behavior, and the changing context, determinants, and measurement of contemporary human reproduction.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

This book examines the demographic development of Russia from the late Russian Empire to the contemporary Russian Federation, and includes discussions of marriage patterns, fertility, mortality, and inter-regional migration.

Does Aging Stop?

This book, originally published in 1983, demonstrates the importance of seaports in the growth of less-developed countries.

This book describes the multidisciplinary approach needed to tackle better aging.

Ageing in Asia contains a selection of leading social systems and programs, with interesting case-studies offering innovative and useful lessons.

As parents we all want the best for our children, but so often over-manage every aspect of their lives, leaving them overwhelmed, lacking motivation, and at risk of mental health problems as adults.

This book covers several dimensions of the undercount of young children in the U.

This edited volume brings together a range of scholars to reflect on the varied ways in which caste is manifested and experienced in social life.

One of this book's goals is to evaluate the complex ways that Madrid has served as the political, economic, and cultural capital of the Global South from the end of the Franco dictatorship to the present.

This book describes and clarifies how certain problems can be resolved in Japan and Asia.

This book provides an insightful sociological study of the shrinking Japanese population through a regional variation perspective as it varies significantly by municipality, even within the same prefecture.

This fifth edition of the essential history of world population is updated with the most recent and significant scholarship on the topic.

The dawn of neoliberal rationality in Africa in the 1980s coincided with a massive exodus of skilled Africans to the global North.

This book analyses the reasons for relying on behavioural contraception methods among urban 'elites' in India and examines their efficacy in controlling fertility.

In this richly detailed and imaginatively researched study, Victoria Bynum investigates "e;unruly"e; women in central North Carolina before and during the Civil War.

This new volume maps the complex interplay of demographic and socioeconomic changes in the United States, where rapid aging and ethnic diversification are merely the most salient of the many issues with major long-term implications.

This book examines the promises as well as the challenges the demographic dividend brings to sub-Saharan Africa as fertility rates in the region fall and the labor force grows.

This book is a timely overview of the various aspects of consumer perception related to food.

Although we may not think we notice them, storefronts and their signage are meaningful, and the impact they have on people is significant.

Old-age survival has considerably improved in the second half of the twentieth century.

Thirty-two years ago Mrs Li and Mr Wu from Zhejiang abandoned their second baby daughter at a marketplace.

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Despite efforts to build the state, profound political order in rural Afghanistan is maintained by self-governing, customary organizations.

The book examines the history of abortion and contraception in Modern Greece from the time of its creation in the 1830s to 1967, soon after the Pill became available.

​Seit jeher hat das Thema Alter(n) für Individuum und Gesellschaft große Bedeutung.

In August 2003, North Carolina became the first U.

This book discusses gerontological issues and challenges impacting the quality of life of older people in India.

This essential reference work enables a deeper understanding of contemporary challenges in the lives of American Indians and Alaskan Natives today, carefully reviewing their unique problems and proposing potential solutions.