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This open access book presents the trends and patterns of demographic and family changes from all eleven countries in the region for the past 50 years. The rich data are coupled with historical, cultural and policy background to facilitate an understanding of the...
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Springer
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2022-05-05
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Far from its origins in US legal studies in the 1980s, critical race theory has grown to become a leading approach to the analysis of racial inequality around the world. It has courted much controversy along the way, often misunderstood and poorly defined. So what...
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Polity
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2022-04-13
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This Brief provides a survey of key political, social, and economic issues affecting the Western Balkans region. Taking a two-pronged conceptual approach focusing on fragmentation and integration, the volume highlights commonalities and differences in a number of...
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Springer
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2022-03-15
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One of the major challenges facing the world today is the interaction between demographic change and development. Demographic Dynamics and Development reviews the dominant demographic theory, demographic transition, and then presents a thorough investigation covering...
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Wiley-ISTE
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2022-02-17
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The notion of ‘immigrant integration’ is used everywhere – by politicians, policy makers, journalists and researchers – as an all-encompassing framework for rebuilding ‘unity from diversity’ after large-scale immigration. Promising a progressive middle way between...
Editeur :
Polity
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2022-02-08
Collection :
Immigration and Society
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This handbook presents a timely and comprehensive overview of theory, data, methods and research findings that connect human population dynamics and environmental context. It presents regional summaries of empirical findings on migration and environmental connections...
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Springer
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2022-02-07
Collection :
International Handbooks of Population
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Claudia Hille untersucht in dem vorliegenden Buch die Auswirkungen berufsbedingter, residenzieller Multilokalität auf das Verkehrshandeln. Zu diesem Zweck analysiert sie im Rahmen einer qualitativen empirischen Erhebung individuelle Mobilitätsentscheidungen und...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2022-01-28
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Das vorliegende Buch befasst sich mit Vertrauen in die Polizei, wobei die Makroebene wie auch die Individualebene betrachtet und miteinander verknüpft werden. Auf der Makroebene fokussiert die Autorin die wahrgenommene Korruption, auf der Individualebene individuelle...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2021-12-03
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Segregation is one of the starkest social realities of contemporary societies. Though often associated with explicitly racist laws of the past, it is a phenomenon that persists to this day and is a crucial element for understanding group relations and the wellbeing of...
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Polity
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2021-11-30
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Racism is a world problem. From Morocco to China, Brazil to Indonesia, racism is being debated and contested. Multiracism broadens the horizon on this global challenge, showing that racism has a diverse history with multiple roots and routes. Drawing on examples of...
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Polity
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2021-11-25
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Die zunehmende Technisierung von Alter und Pflege ist nicht nur mit Chancen, sondern auch mit zahlreichen Gefahren verbunden. Selbst vor dem Hintergrund des demografischen Wandels und der damit verbundenen Herausforderungen ist die Integration technischer Innovationen...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2021-10-26
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This book provides a bi-national portrait of dementia in the rapidly aging Mexican-origin population in Mexico and the United States. It provides a comprehensive overview of critical conceptual and methodological issues in the study of cognitive aging and related mental...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-08-03
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This open access book provides a step-by-step overview on how to build a microsimulation model with SAS. It shows how to convert an already existing multistate projection by age, sex, education and region into a microsimulation model. Two new dimensions are then added,...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-07-28
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Sehbeeinträchtigungen im Alter zu erfahren, gehört für zunehmend mehr Menschen zu einer herausfordernden Alltagssituation. Das Buch nimmt sich dieser Lebenssituation der Seniorinnen und Senioren an und diskutiert anhand von theoretischen, empirischen und...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2021-06-01
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Asian Americans are the fastest growing minority population in the country. Moreover, they provide a unique lens on the wider experiences of immigrants and minorities in the United States, both historically and today. Pawan Dhingra and Robyn Magalit Rodriguez’s...
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Polity
Parution :
2021-05-20
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Partizipation an Forschung und Entwicklung gilt als Voraussetzung eines gelungenen Transfersvon Innovationen in die Gesellschaft. Dieser Zusammenhang besteht vor allem dann, wenninnovative Technik in den Mittelpunkt der Betrachtung rückt. Wie ist es jedoch um...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2021-04-23
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This book discusses the political, social and cultural change of Western civilization since ancient Greek in the adventure of civic thought in political theory. The aim of this book is to contribute to the discussion of citizenship through "citizenship awareness",...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-01-21
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Romana Winkler untersucht den Einfluss des Pflegeheimeinzugs sowie ausgewählter Aspekte sozialer Ungleichheit auf die Lebensqualität pflege- und betreuungsbedürftiger älterer Menschen in Österreich. Dies erfolgt durch eine Längsschnittstudie beim Einzug in das...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2020-12-21
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The history of migration is deeply entangled with colonialism. To this day, colonial logics continue to shape the dynamics of migration as well as the responses of states to those arriving at their borders. And yet migration studies has been surprisingly slow to engage...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2020-12-03
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This open access book presents new developments in the field of demographic forecasting, covering both mortality, fertility and migration. For each component emerging methods to forecast them are presented. Moreover, instruments for forecasting evaluation are...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-09-28
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