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Rural people and communities continue to play important social, economic, and environmental roles at a time when societies are rapidly urbanizing. This unrivaled critical introduction, now in a comprehensively updated second edition, examines the causes and consequences...
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Polity
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2018-12-19
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The last few decades have seen a huge increase in attention paid to the trafficking of human beings, often referred to as modern-day slavery. International and national policies and protocols have been developed and billions of dollars spent to combat the issue and...
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Polity
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2018-12-14
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How can colorblindness – the idea that race does not matter – be racist? This illuminating book introduces the paradox of colorblind racism: how dismissing or downplaying the realities of race and racism can perpetuate inequality and violence. Drawing on a range of...
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Polity
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2018-11-26
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Lisa Döring untersucht Mobilitätsbiografien von 1911 bis 2000 Geborenen mittels Standard-Kohorten-Tabellen und Markov Modellen. Die Ergebnisse zeigen Veränderungen im Mobilitätshandeln. Sie bestätigen nicht den häufig postulierten Bedeutungsverlust des Pkw unter jungen...
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Springer VS
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2018-07-05
Collection :
Studien zur Mobilitäts- und Verkehrsforschung
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Migration has been a basic fact of Nepali life for centuries. Over the last thirty years, migration from Nepal has increased diaspora communities across the world. In these diverse contexts, to what extent do Nepalis reproduce their culture and pass it on to subsequent...
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OUP India
Parution :
2018-06-09
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The generation into which each person is born, the demographic composition of that cohort, and its relation to those born at the same time in other places influences not only a person's life chances, but also the economic and political structures within which that life...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-05-11
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The generation into which each person is born, the demographic composition of that cohort, and its relation to those born at the same time in other places influences not only a person's life chances, but also the economic and political structures within which that life...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-05-11
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Life for too many African American men is a battle with extreme disadvantage, a fight for survival, and a struggle for dignity in a society which labels them a "problem." For more than 30 years, most of the effort put toward addressing the crisis of Black men has...
Editeur :
Polity
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2018-01-16
Collection :
Debating Race
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Demography is not destiny. As Giacomo Casanova explained over two centuries ago: 'There is no such thing as destiny. We ourselves shape our own lives.' Today we are shaping them and our societies more than ever before. Globally, we have never had fewer children per...
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Polity
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2017-12-08
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This book addresses major population and development issues: fertility and reproductive health, migrations, gender, education, poverty and inequalities. To that aim it revisits and considerably enlarges Kingsley Davis’ 1963 theory of change and response, using...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-10-30
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This book highlights the reality of malnutrition among school-age children in India and relates it with dietary adequacy, diversity and choice. Using empirical data from field research conducted in Karnataka, India, it documents the nutritional status of school-going...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-10-20
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In the space of another generation, the population of the earth will rise by 2.5 billion. Yet the real problem we face is not so much the increase in numbers as the fact that growth will be highly uneven. Whereas rich countries will see aging populations with little...
Editeur :
Polity
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2017-10-16
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At the XXIst World Congress of the International Committee of Historical Sciences (ICHS/CISH) in 2010 in Amsterdam, the International Commission for Historical Demography (ICHD) decided to write an overview of its own history. Fifty years had gone by since the CISH XIst...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2017-10-13
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Since the onset of the mortgage lending crisis and the subsequent Great Recession, there has been ongoing debate about the economic benefits of homeownership. Some say homeownership remains an important contributor to wealth creation, while others believe that renting...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-09-01
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The study deals predominantly with basic questions of Historical Demography that have so far not yet been tackled, as no adequate sources seemed to exist, or the effort for digging into these problems seemed outrageous. Many major gaps are filled in this study, based on...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-08-08
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Adopting a longitudinal approach, this book examines the dynamics of union and family formation in France and its effects on various aspects of life, such as employment, intergenerational transfers, etc. Drawing on data from a survey in which the same respondents were...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-06-14
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This book examines the connection between food and identity in the Nigerian diaspora community in Belgium. Encounters between people from different cultures do not lead to a simple adaptation of the diet, but usually give rise to some kind of fusion of new and...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2017-03-29
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Christoph Kern konzeptioniert ein Modell zur Analyse von arbeitsmarktbezogenen Mobilitätsentscheidungen im regionalen sowie partnerschaftlichen Kontext. Dabei wird räumliche Mobilität als das Ergebnis eines dyadischen Entscheidungsprozesses aufgefasst, bei dem neben...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2017-02-20
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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...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2017-01-10
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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...
Editeur :
Polity
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2016-12-16
Collection :
China Today
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