Population and demography

This book explores the diverse immigrant experiences in urban West Africa, where some groups integrate seamlessly while others face exclusion and violence.

This book explores the diverse immigrant experiences in urban West Africa, where some groups integrate seamlessly while others face exclusion and violence.

This book examines the lives of Roman boys and girls and explores the possible existence of a separate youth culture.

This book outlines key parallels between demographic development and economic outcomes, explaining how fertility, growth and inequality are related.

Up-to-date and comprehensive, this book is an integration of the biological, cultural and historical dimensions of population movement.

This book outlines key parallels between demographic development and economic outcomes, explaining how fertility, growth and inequality are related.

Up-to-date and comprehensive, this book is an integration of the biological, cultural and historical dimensions of population movement.

This book examines the lives of Roman boys and girls and explores the possible existence of a separate youth culture.

A radical revision of existing ideas about the popularity, legal treatment and perceptions of cohabitation between 1600 and 2010.

A radical revision of existing ideas about the popularity, legal treatment and perceptions of cohabitation between 1600 and 2010.

A collection of essays by Nobel laureate Robert W.

A study of the history of filth, disease, purity and cleanliness in one of Europe''s oldest and most influential cities.

A study of the history of filth, disease, purity and cleanliness in one of Europe''s oldest and most influential cities.

This is a fully-updated version of the first full-scale, one-volume survey of the demographic history of the United States from preconquest to the present day.

This study examines various cases of return migration from the United States to Mexico throughout the nineteenth century.

This is a fully-updated version of the first full-scale, one-volume survey of the demographic history of the United States from preconquest to the present day.

This study examines various cases of return migration from the United States to Mexico throughout the nineteenth century.

This book provides fresh perspectives on the uses of ancient demography for social, economic and political historians.

This book provides fresh perspectives on the uses of ancient demography for social, economic and political historians.

Newly available to an English-speaking audience, this encyclopaedia presents a systematic overview of the existing scholarship regarding migration within and into Europe.

Newly available to an English-speaking audience, this encyclopaedia presents a systematic overview of the existing scholarship regarding migration within and into Europe.

This book suggests that the enduring problem of generations remains that of knowledge: how society conceptualises the relationship between past, present and future, and the ways in which this is transmitted by adults to the young.

In this book, the author seeks to understand China's urban redevelopment from the theoretical perspective of the local entrepreneurial state.

Using a combination of statistical analysis of census material and social history, this book describes the ageing of Ireland's population from the start of the Union up to the introduction of the old age pension in 1908.

This volume provides a critical approach to using focus groups, examining how focus groups have been utilized to research a diverse set of research questions covering a broad spectrum of substantive fields.

Exploring notions of the person through a wide range of anthropological literature, Cathrine Degnen analyses how personhood is built, affirmed, and maintained during various life stages and via multiple cultural forms and practices.

'Jha is the right scholar and economist to take readers through the development of the Indian economy.

In the decade between 1998-2008, Spain became the main destination for Ecuadorian migrants, and Madrid, Spain's capital, became the city with the largest Ecuadorian population outside of Ecuador.

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.

Based on numerous qualitative interviews, this cutting edge book investigates how Hong Kong's economic structure and neoliberal policies have contributed to class inequality in China's global city.

Changes in Censuses from Imperialist to Welfare States , the second of two volumes, uses historical and comparative methods to analyze censuses or census-like information in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Italy, starting in England over one-thousand years ago.

Antecedents of Censuses From Medieval to Nation States, the first of two volumes, examines the influence of social formations on censuses from the medieval period through current times.

The study of death has the capacity to bring together a range of policy areas.

Fundamental societal changes in the globalising European countryside impact women's migration decisions.

By comparing Germany, France, the UK and the USA this study explores how governments have tackled the increased pressure of financing state pensions.

This insightful book examines the Black African diaspora in Britain through an examination of its demography, recent patterns of migration, changing patterns of residence, and socio-economic position.

This is the first academic monograph to focus exclusively on issues of race, ethnicity, whiteness and multiculture at the English seaside.

Travelling intensively to and for work helps but also challenges people to find ways of balancing work and personal life.

This book presents a multifaceted perspective on regional development and corresponding processes of adaptation and response, focusing on the concepts of polarization and peripheralization.

The struggle to create and sustain meaning in our everyday lives is fought using cultural ingredients to spin the webs of meaning that keep us going.

This book proposes a historical-conceptual journey into the cluttered social formations that have remained outside of mainstream sociology.

This book gives a thorough introduction to the theoretical and practical aspects of planning, conducting and analysing data from Respondent Driven Sampling surveys, drawing on the experiences of experts in the field as well as pioneers that have applied Respondent Driven Sampling methodology to migrant populations.

This book draws on social theories to understand lifestyle migration as a social phenomenon.

Pre-financial crisis, EU citizens were 'overlooking' Europe ignoring it in favour of globalisation, economic flows, and crises of political corruption.

Population ageing is among the most important developments of our time.

This volume scrutinizes new developments in contemporary mobility and migration politics and shows that they are based on a mix of traditional coercive interventions and less repressive and indirect practices.

Tracing the population assistance movement from its tentative beginnings to today, this book employs history to examine the new paradigm created from the Cairo Conference - the 'road map' for the population policy future.

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

In recent times, there has been a substantial push by people to escape the metropolis for lifestyles in small coastal, country, or mountainside locales.