Demography category: 971 books
Demographic Analysis of Latin American Immigrants in Spain
From Boom to Bust
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
This book provides a unique, timely and comprehensive insight into Latin American immigrants in Spain. Each chapter uses a demographic framework to examining important topics related to the experiences of Latin American immigrants in Spain, like their rapid acquisition of nationality, their contrasting...
by Nancy E. Riley
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
China is home to a fifth of the world's inhabitants. For the last several decades, this huge population has been in flux: fertility has fallen sharply, mortality has declined, and massive rural-to-urban migration is taking place. The state has played a direct role in these changes, seeing population...
Colonization and Development in New Zealand between 1769 and 1900
The Seeds of Rangiatea
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
This book details the interactions between the Seeds of Rangiatea, New Zealand’s Maori people of Polynesian origin, and Europe from 1769 to 1900. It provides a case-study of the way Imperial era contact and colonization negatively affected naturally evolving demographic/epidemiologic transitions...
Minority Youth and Social Integration
The ISRD-3 Study in Europe and the US
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2018
This book examines the processes for social integration and social cohesion among young people, drawing on data collected from the International Self-Report Delinquency (ISRD) study, which covered 35 studies.This report examines case studies from 5 selected countries (France, Germany, the Netherlands,...
The Human Tide
How Population Shaped the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
A dazzling new history of the irrepressible demographic changes and mass migrations that have made and unmade nations, continents, and empires
The rise and fall of the British Empire; the emergence of America as a superpower; the ebb and flow of global challenges from Nazi Germany, Imperial...
Studies in the Sociology of Population
International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2019
This book presents a cross section of the work and concerns of social demographers worldwide, covering a broad range of topics from social structure through population structure to social policy; from fertility and mortality through migration to the way in which organisations deal with the demographic...
Dreaming Mobility and Buying Vulnerability
Overseas Recruitment Practices in India
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
In the alarming contemporary context of widespread corruption and fraudulence in the overseas labour recruitment system in India, this book attempts to understand the institution of emigration governance and recruitment practices in the country with a focus on the unskilled and semi-skilled sectors....
by Massimo Livi Bacci
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
The latest edition of this classic text has been updated to reflect current trends and implications for future demographic developments. The areas of Africa, international migration and population and environment have been strengthened and statistical information has been updated throughout.
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by Tamara Draut
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2007
Drowning in student loans? Can’t afford to get married, buy a home, have children? Up to your ears in credit card debt? At last, a book for the under-35 generation that explains why it’s not their fault, and what can be done about it. Strapped offers a groundbreaking look at the new obstacle course...
Generation Debt
How Our Future Was Sold Out for Student Loans, Bad Jobs, No Benefits, and Tax Cu ts for Rich Geezers--And How to Fight Back
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2006
Generation Debt offers a truly gripping account of how young Americans are being ground down by low wages, high taxes, huge student loans, sky-high housing prices, not to mention the impending retirement of their baby boomer parents. Twenty-four-year-old Anya Kamenetz examines this issue from every...
by Khalid Koser
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2007
Why has international migration become an issue of such intense public and political concern? How closely linked are migrants with terrorist organizations? What factors lie behind the dramatic increase in the number of women migrating? This Very Short Introduction looks at the phenomenon of international...
Microtrends Squared
The New Small Forces Driving Today's Big Disruptions
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Ten years after his New York Times bestselling book Microtrends, Mark Penn identifies the next wave of trends reshaping the future of business, politics, and culture.
Mark Penn has boldly argued that the future is not shaped by society’s broad forces, but by quiet changes within narrow slices...
Triumph of the City
How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2011
A pioneering urban economist presents a myth-shattering look at the majesty and greatness of cities
America is an urban nation, yet cities get a bad rap: they're dirty, poor, unhealthy, environmentally unfriendly . . . or are they? In this revelatory book, Edward Glaeser, a leading urban economist,...
Lights Out
Islam, free speech and the twilight of the west
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
Roaming from America to Europe to Australia, Lights Out is a trenchant examination of the tensions between a resurgent Islam and a fainthearted west - and of the implications for liberty in the years ahead.
In 2007, the Canadian Islamic Congress brought three suits against Maclean's, Canada's...