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Vergleichende Analysen zur demografischen Alterung und Situation alter Menschen, innovative Praxisprojekte zur Versorgung älterer Bürgerinnen und Bürger sowie politische Artikulationen aus polnischer, tschechischer und deutscher Sicht zusammenzuführen, war Anliegen...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-06-19
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Refugee research and debate have focused on international agreements, border controls and the legal status of asylum seekers. The lived, daily life of refugees in different phases of their flight has thus been unduly neglected. How have refugees experienced policies of...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-05-25
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Providing a unified and comprehensive treatment of the theory and techniques of sub-national population estimation, this much-needed publication does more than collate disparate source material. It examines hitherto unexplored methodological links between differing...
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Springer
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2012-05-23
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The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis
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The subject of this book are migration journeys of highly skilled workers. By focusing on migration as a journey, the research considers all stages of migration (remigration in particular) and complements the approach to the phenomenon with a life-long perspective. In...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-04-26
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From a historical perspective, the period between the fall of the Berlin Wall (1989) until the Wall Street crash of 2008 was brief, but the social changes were far-reaching and resulted in the profound alteration of institutional frameworks of post-socialist societies...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-03-30
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This book is the result of a field research carried out by the author among a community of agriculturists in what was till recently the uttermost part of Southern Pakistani Balochistan. It deals with themes such as ways of living and representing spaces, constructing...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
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2011-12-05
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Im Mittelpunkt des dänischen «Positivismusstreits» zwischen Svend Ranulf und Theodor Geiger steht die Diskussion unterschiedlicher methodologischer und methodischer Möglichkeiten und Voraussetzungen der quantitativen empirischen Sozialforschung.
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-08-16
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Neben «Bevölkerungsschrumpfung» und «demografischer Alterung» ist die «Internationalisierung der Bevölkerung» ein weiterer Megatrend, der den demografischen Wandel ausmacht. Ein Trend, der hierzulande – zumindest in den zurückliegenden Jahren – bemerkenswert wenig...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-05-17
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One Story of Academia: Race Lines and the Rhetoric of Distinction through the Académie française explores how the word race was historically linked to kings and feudal lords as a sign of elite social distinction, and how the Académie française has embodied that type of...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2011-03-03
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Work has always been and remains a powerful integrator in society. It provides places, duties and rights and classifies individuals on a scale of social prestige. Over a long period of time, however, the meaning of work has changed. It has become more diversified and it...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
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2011-02-21
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This handbook presents a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of unprecedented substantive, theoretical, methodological, and statistical developments and insights, and an in-depth examination of trends and patterns, in adult mortality around the world. With over two...
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Springer
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2011-02-18
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International Handbooks of Population
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Although the human population growth rate of the world has been declining since peaking in the early 1960s, the populations of individual countries are changing at different rates. Population dynamics at national level are partly determined by levels of fertility and...
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Springer
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2011-02-15
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Understanding Population Trends and Processes
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Navigating Time and Space in Population Studies presents innovative approaches to long-standing questions about the diffusion of population and demographic behavior across space and over time. This collection utilizes newly-available historical data along with spatially...
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Springer
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2011-02-10
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Most people value to have children still highly. But what is the optimal moment to have the first? The decision on having children or not and if yes on the timing of the first is one of the most difficult ones to make, also because it more or less coincides with various...
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Springer
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2010-12-06
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Whereas the history of demography as a social science has been amply explored, that of the construction of the concept of population has been neglected. Specialists systematically ignore a noteworthy paradox: strictly speaking, the great intellectual figures of the past...
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Springer
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2010-08-25
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As America becomes more and more racially diverse, Rich Benjamin noticed a phenomenon: Some communities were actually getting less multicultural. So he got out a map, found the whitest towns in the USA -- and moved in. A journalist-adventurer, Benjamin packed his bags...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2009-10-06
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The Baby Boom generation has always been known as a demographic anomaly and these 77 million Americans have dominated our society for the past 60 years, setting trends and revolutionizing entire industries. They didn't just date, they transformed sex roles and...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2009-05-30
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Historians, anthropologists, political scientists and demographers explore the principal challenges and fears characterizing relations between Europe and the Mediterranean. The contributors suggest that the greatest challenge facing our political generation is no longer...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2007-11-21
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With the largest population in the world, China has experienced significant demographic, social, and economic changes in recent decades. Extraordinary demographic changes took place in China in the second half of the twentieth century having wide-ranging consequences....
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OUP Oxford
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2007-02-22
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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...
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OUP Oxford
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2007-02-22
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