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Demography

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  • Population and Developmentby Tim Dyson

    Zed Books 2010; US$ 28.95

    Population and Development offers an expert guide on the demographic transition, from its origins in Enlightenment Europe through to the rest of the world. Tim Dyson examines how, while the phenomenon continues to cause unsustainable population growth with serious economic and environmental implications, its processes have underlain previous periods... more...

  • Dictating Demographyby Carl Ipsen

    Cambridge University Press 1996; US$ 42.00

    This book examines the demographic policy of Mussolini's Fascist regime. more...

  • Male Fertility Patterns and Determinantsby Zhang Li

    Springer 2010; US$ 109.99

    This book discusses the biological, methodological and sociological issues that have caused men to be overlooked in demographic and sociological literature of fertility. It explores the patterns and determinants of male fertility and studies male fertility rates as compared to those of females in 43 countries and places, over time. Data used in the... more...

  • Globalization, Migration and Social Transformationby Bryan Fanning; Ronaldo Munck

    Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2011; US$ 114.95

    Globalization, Migration and Social Transformation takes Ireland as a paradigmatic case of social transformation, exploring the reasons for which emigration was so quickly replaced by immigration, along with the social, political, cultural and economic effects of this change. Presenting the latest research thematically arranged around the themes of... more...

  • Categories and Contextsby Simon Szreter; Hania Sholkamy; A. Dharmalingam

    OUP Oxford 2004; US$ 149.99

    Throughout its history as a social science, demography has been associated with an exclusively quantitative orientation for studying social problems. As a result, demographers tend to analyse population issues scientifically through sets of fixed social categories that are divorced from dynamic relationships and local contexts and processes. This volume... more...

  • Qualitative Methods in Migration Studiesby Theodoros Iosifides

    Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2011; US$ 114.95

    Moving away from the quantitative and empiricist-positivist approaches that have often characterised migration research, Qualitative Methods in Migration Studies explores in a concise but comprehensive way the key issues involved in researching migratory phenomena in a qualitative manner. It addresses themes including the basic characteristics of contemporary... more...

  • Nation, Diaspora, Trans-nationby R. K. Jain

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 110.00

    A premier debate in the present conjuncture of globalization has been the prospect of ?post nation? and the obsolescence of patriotism at the horizon of transnationalism. In an ethnographically rich and discursively sharp intervention R. K. Jain articulates the contribution that diaspora studies can make to this debate. In this anthropological... more...

  • Demography at the Edgeby Dean Carson; Rasmus Ole Rasmussen; Prescott Ensign; Lee Huskey; Andrew Taylor

    Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2011; US$ 124.95

    Addressing the methodological and topical challenges facing remote demographers, this book compares and contrasts the research, methods and models, and policy applications from remote regions in developed nations. The work draws upon four examples: the far north and desert regions of Australia, the northern provinces and territories of Canada, Alaska,... more...

  • The Population of Malaysiaby Saw Swee-Hock

    Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) 2007; US$ 49.90

    This book, a project of Malaysia Study Programme of ISEAS, covers the whole of Malaysia since its formation in 1963, using statistics collected in the four pan-Malaysia Population Censuses held in 1970, 1980, 1991, and 2000, and data from other sources up to 2005 wherever possible. The book is by far the most up-to-date and comprehensive study of the... more...

  • Labour Mobility in the Asia-Pacific Regionby Graeme Hugo; Soogil Young

    Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) 2008; US$ 44.90

    Driven by demographic changes, and reinforced by intensifying globalization, international labour mobility has been on the rise in recent decades in the Asia-Pacific region. It seems that, after trade and investment, labour mobility constitutes the final frontier for regional integration among the Asia-Pacific economies. There is no doubt that labour... more...