Population and demography

In recent years, global migration has transformed in terms of its numbers and reach, its political significance, and its impact.

Mobile Chinese Entrepreneurs draws extensively on the narratives of sixteen small-to-medium business owners, born on the mainland, who have immigrated to Hong Kong and returned to their ancestral hometowns in China to establish their enterprises.

The book consists of five parts and a concluding chapter.

Between longer life expectancies and declining birth rates, Europe's elder population is growing into a sizable minority with considerable impact on nations, health systems, and economies-in other words, global implications as well as local and regional ones.

With the longest life expectancy for men and the second longest for women, Hong Kong typifies our planet's aging population.

Population aging is a matter of global concern.

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Human mobility has been a defining feature of human social evolution.

This book arose from the need to develop accessible research-based case study material which addresses contemporary issues and problems in the rapidly evolving field of human ecology.

Much has happened since the first appearance of AIDS in 1981: it has been identified, studied, and occasionally denied.

An eye-opening exploration of humanity s unprecedented path to global depopulation and why it's in everyone's interests to prevent it.

The final book from a towering pioneer in the study of poverty and inequality-a critically important examination of poverty around the worldIn this, his final book, economist Anthony Atkinson, one of the world's great social scientists and a pioneer in the study of poverty and inequality, offers an inspiring analysis of a central question: What is poverty and how much of it is there around the globe?

Using as his example post-World War I Italy and the government's interest in the size, growth rate, and "e;vitality"e; of its national population, David Horn suggests a genealogy for our present understanding of procreation as a site for technological intervention and political contestation.

Does your real age match the age you feel?

Boris Yeltsin's attempts at democratic reform have plunged a long troubled Russia even further into turmoil.

Is management a profession?

What's the real story behind the 2000 presidential election fiasco?

The central aim of many studies in population research and demography is to explain cause-effect relationships among variables or events.

According to current understanding, Malthus was hostile to an excess of population because it caused social sufferings, while Marx was favourable to demographic growth in so far as a large proletariat was a factor aggravating the contradictions of capitalism.

Many parts of the world are experiencing rapid demographic restructuring, resulting in an ageing population with increasingly significant work and care pressures on cohorts less able or willing to provide support.

Does multiculturalism 'work'?

Justin O'Connor and Lily Kong The cultural and creative industries have become increasingly prominent in many policy agendas in recent years.

China's concentrated HIV epidemic is on the brink of becoming a generalized one and syphilis infection has become a major public health threat.

The anti-causal prophecies of last century have been disproved.

Social differences in health and mortality constitute a persistent finding in epidemiological, demographic, and sociological research.

Applied Demography is clearly evolving as its practitioners become involved in the emerging trends of the Twenty-First Century.

Born during the Great Depression and World War Two (1929 1945) an entire generation has slipped between the cracks of history.

Forty years ago, the age-old battle against infectious diseases as a major threat to human health was believed close to being won.

Key research in the world's largest aging population - in China - has fed into this important new work, which aims to answer questions critical to older people worldwide.

The International Union for the Scientific Study of Population's Panel on Historical Demography applies a historical perspective, such as the importance of kinship networks for demographic outcomes later in life, to promote work of contemporary relevance.

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