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Population and Development
Zed Books 2010; US$ 28.95Population 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 Demography
Cambridge University Press 1996; US$ 42.00This book examines the demographic policy of Mussolini's Fascist regime. more...
Male Fertility Patterns and Determinants
Springer 2010; US$ 109.99This 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 Transformation
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2011; US$ 114.95Globalization, 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 Contexts
OUP Oxford 2004; US$ 149.99Throughout 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 Studies
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2011; US$ 114.95Moving 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-nation
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 110.00A 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 Edge
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2011; US$ 124.95Addressing 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 Malaysia
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) 2007; US$ 49.90This 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 Region
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) 2008; US$ 44.90Driven 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...









