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Modelling Aging and Migration Effects on Spatial Labor Markets (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Roger R. Stough, Karima Kourtit,... Modelling Aging and Migration Effects on Spatial Labor Markets (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Roger R. Stough, Karima Kourtit, Peter Nijkamp, Uwe Blien
R5,134 Discovery Miles 51 340 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The aging and migration megatrends and their impact on spatial - regional and local - labor market performance is the core theme of this book, and thus together define its scope and focus. The contributions provide an overview of key aging and migration issues in various countries together with analyses of their varied impacts on regional labor markets. Systematic database research and related empirical analyses are used to map out the complex and dynamic nature of these trends, while cutting-edge economic and modeling techniques are used to analyze them. In closing, the book critically reviews and assesses selected policy measures designed to cope with the effects of aging and migration on regional labor markets.

New World, New Roles. - A Documentary History of Women in Pre-Industrial America (Hardcover): Sylvia Frey, Marian Morton New World, New Roles. - A Documentary History of Women in Pre-Industrial America (Hardcover)
Sylvia Frey, Marian Morton
R2,781 Discovery Miles 27 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Environmental Change, Adaptation and Migration - Bringing in the Region (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015): Felicitas Hillmann, Marie... Environmental Change, Adaptation and Migration - Bringing in the Region (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015)
Felicitas Hillmann, Marie Pahl, Birte Rafflenbeul, Harald Sterly
R3,558 Discovery Miles 35 580 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The contributors present empirical and theoretical insights on current debates on environmental change, adaptation and migration. While focusing on countries subject to environmental degradation, it calls for a regional perspective that recognises local actors and a systematic link between development studies and migration research.

Immigration Detention - The migration of a policy and its human impact (Hardcover): Amy Nethery, Stephanie Silverman Immigration Detention - The migration of a policy and its human impact (Hardcover)
Amy Nethery, Stephanie Silverman
R4,616 Discovery Miles 46 160 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Before the turn of the century, few states used immigration detention. Today, nearly every state around the world has adopted immigration detention policy in some form. States practice detention as a means to address both the accelerating numbers of people crossing their borders, and the populations residing in their states without authorisation. This edited volume examines the contemporary diffusion of immigration detention policy throughout the world and the impact of this expansion on the prospects of protection for people seeking asylum. It includes contributions by immigration detention experts working in Australasia, the Americas, Europe, Africa and the Middle East. It is the first to set out a systematic comparison of immigration detention policy across these regions and to examine how immigration detention has become a ubiquitous part of border and immigration control strategies globally. In so doing, the volume presents a global perspective on the diversity of immigration detention policies and practices, how these circumstances developed, and the human impact of states exchanging individuals' rights to liberty for the collective assurance of border and immigration control. This text will be of key interest to scholars, students and practitioners of immigration, migration, public administration, comparative policy studies, comparative politics and international political economy.

Social Transformation and Migration - National and Local Experiences in South Korea, Turkey, Mexico and Australia (Hardcover):... Social Transformation and Migration - National and Local Experiences in South Korea, Turkey, Mexico and Australia (Hardcover)
S. Castles, D. Ozkul, M. Cubas
R2,713 R2,037 Discovery Miles 20 370 Save R676 (25%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book examines theories and specific experiences of international migration and social transformation, with special reference to the effects of neo-liberal globalization on four societies with vastly different historical and cultural characteristics: South Korea, Australia, Turkey and Mexico.

International Migration of China - Status, Policy and Social Responses to the Globalization of Migration (Hardcover, 1st ed.... International Migration of China - Status, Policy and Social Responses to the Globalization of Migration (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Lu Miao, Huiyao Wang
R3,764 Discovery Miles 37 640 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book provides a systemic and detailed monographic study of Chinese outbound migration. It not only breaks down the basic trends of this migration with respect to destinations and the like, but also analyzes its unique features, which include the largely middle- and upper-class makeup of emigrants and their investment activities overseas, particularly when it comes to buying property. The Chinese are the largest foreign buyers of real estate in the US, Canada and Australia. By explaining this and other special aspects of Chinese emigration and their impact on China and receiving countries, this book provides a fresh and interesting look at this important phenomenon.

European Cities, Municipal Organizations and Diversity - The New Politics of Difference (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Maria... European Cities, Municipal Organizations and Diversity - The New Politics of Difference (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Maria Schiller
R3,041 R1,977 Discovery Miles 19 770 Save R1,064 (35%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Migration, Borders and Citizenship - Between Policy and Public Spheres (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Maurizio Ambrosini, Manlio... Migration, Borders and Citizenship - Between Policy and Public Spheres (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Maurizio Ambrosini, Manlio Cinalli, David Jacobson
R3,908 Discovery Miles 39 080 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This edited collection goes beyond the limited definition of borders as simply dividing lines across states, to uncover another, yet related, type of division: one that separates policies and institutions from public debate and contestation. Bringing together expertise from established and emerging academics, it examines the fluid and varied borderscape across policy and the public domains. The chapters encompass a wide range of analyses that covers local, national and transnational frameworks, policies and private actors. In doing so, Migration, Borders and Citizenship reveals the tensions between border control and state economic interests; legal frameworks designed to contain criminality and solidarity movements; international conventions, national constitutions and local migration governance; and democratic and exclusive constructions of citizenship. This novel approach to the politics of borders will appeal to sociologists, political scientists and geographers working in the fields of migration, citizenship, urban geography and human rights; in addition to students and scholars of security studies and international relations.

Reworking Postcolonialism - Globalization, Labour and Rights (Hardcover): P. Malreddy, B. Heidemann, O. Laursen Reworking Postcolonialism - Globalization, Labour and Rights (Hardcover)
P. Malreddy, B. Heidemann, O. Laursen
R1,964 Discovery Miles 19 640 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

An interdisciplinary collection of essays, Reworking Postcolonialism explores questions of work, precarity, migration, minority and indigenous rights in relation to contemporary globalization. It brings together political, economic and literary approaches to texts and events from across the postcolonial world.

Food Parcels in International Migration - Intimate Connections (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Diana Mata-Codesal, Maria Abranches Food Parcels in International Migration - Intimate Connections (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Diana Mata-Codesal, Maria Abranches
R3,833 Discovery Miles 38 330 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book takes food parcels as a vehicle for exploring relationships, intimacy, care, consumption, exchange, and other fundamental anthropological concerns, examining them in relation to wider transnational spaces. As the contributors to this volume argue, food and its related practices offer a window through which to examine the reconciliation of people's localised intimate experiences with globalising forces. Their analyses contribute to an embodied and sensorial approach to social change by examining migrants and their families' experiences of global connectedness through familiar objects and narratives. By bringing in in-depth ethnographic insights from different social and economic contexts, this book widens the understanding of the lived experiences of mobility and goes beyond the divide between origin and destination countries, therefore contributing to new ways of thinking about migration and transnationalism that take into consideration the materiality of global connections and the way such connections are embodied and experienced at the local level.

Gender and Immigration (Hardcover): G. Kelson, D. Delaet Gender and Immigration (Hardcover)
G. Kelson, D. Delaet
R2,873 Discovery Miles 28 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This work explores the varied and complex ways in which women in a variety of occupational and social categories experience international migration. The chapters are concerned primarily with the question of whether international migration provides women with opportunities for liberating themselves from subordinate gender roles in their countries of origin. At the same time, the authors discuss whether migrant women face both traditional and new forms of subordination and discrimination in their host societies.

Population Change in the United States - Socioeconomic Challenges and Opportunities in the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover, 1st... Population Change in the United States - Socioeconomic Challenges and Opportunities in the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015)
Steve H Murdock, Michael E Cline, Mary Zey, Deborah Perez, P Wilner Jeanty
R2,492 R1,959 Discovery Miles 19 590 Save R533 (21%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This new volume maps the complex interplay of demographic and socioeconomic changes in the United States, where rapid aging and ethnic diversification are merely the most salient of the many issues with major long-term implications. Drawing on The United States Census Bureau's post-2010 detailed projections, as well as a wealth of data distilled from authoritative sources, the authors tackle many of the urgent policy questions raised by America's changing population. The book explores the ways economic markets are adapting to an older and more diverse customer base, how the projected demographic change will impact public service demand, the growing economic disparities between asset-rich baby boomers and youth struggling for economic security, and how the projected demographic patterns will change the fiscal, economic, education, health, and housing sectors and alter the social structures and processes impacting American households and the diverse array of America's future population. A thorough survey of major demographic patterns in the USA up to 2050 is followed by an assessment of how these will affect socioeconomic, public service, fiscal, economic, and social structures and mechanisms, down to the size and composition of households. The analysis then considers possible variations of outcome predicated on alternative dynamic patterns between demographics and socioeconomics. Cutting through the politics and communal anxieties with hard, cutting-edge data, this study will be a primary source for all those who must use its contents to guide their decisions.

A Student's Guide to British American Genealogy (Hardcover, Annotated edition): Anne E. Johnson A Student's Guide to British American Genealogy (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
Anne E. Johnson
R1,412 Discovery Miles 14 120 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A step-by-step guide to genealogical research for students of British American descent or those interested in British Americans.

Technologies for Migration and Population Analysis - Spatial Interaction Data Applications (Hardcover): Technologies for Migration and Population Analysis - Spatial Interaction Data Applications (Hardcover)
R4,981 Discovery Miles 49 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Internal migration serves as one of the key contributing factors to population change involving not only change in the numbers of people, but also a change in composition and structure of local populations. Technologies for Migration and Population Analysis: Spatial Interaction Data Applications addresses the technical and data-related side of studying population flows and provides a selection of substantive case studies and applications to exemplify research currently being carried out. With expert international contributors currently working in the field, this authoritative book allows readers to better understand interaction data and ways knowledge of population flows can be put to use.

Knowing What's Local - Ethnographic Inquiry, Education and Democracy (Hardcover): David Landis, Sapargul Mirseitova Knowing What's Local - Ethnographic Inquiry, Education and Democracy (Hardcover)
David Landis, Sapargul Mirseitova
R2,769 Discovery Miles 27 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Ethnographic inquiry serves as a unique educational resource that is accessible to students and teachers of all economic and social classes and therefore well suited to building democratic communities in the 21st Century. This book is about teachers, students and parents in the Republic of Kazakhstan who opened new educational directions and democratic possibilities for themselves through a series of ethnographic studies about their local communities. By unfolding practical experiences of teachers and students with ethnographic study, this book builds and expands understanding about education and democracy across five points of view: Renewing professional development and building academic knowledge through ethnographic inquiry Acquiring democratic living through ethnographic study of participatory, caring citizenship Connecting democratic ways of life with ethnographic study of identity formation in diverse communities Building knowledge about democratic perspectives through reflexive reading and writing about ethnographic inquiry Building meaningful education at the intersections of ethnographic inquiry, literacy practices and theorizing about local communities The authors propose that teacher and student-led ethnographic inquiries develop educational experiences that enrich educators' professional growth and provide innovative research opportunities for them and their students that generate up-to-date academicknowledge, which can be used to inform course offerings, design lessons and address state policy mandates.

The International Handbook of the Demography of Race and Ethnicity (Hardcover, 2015 ed.): Rogelio Saenz, David G. Embrick,... The International Handbook of the Demography of Race and Ethnicity (Hardcover, 2015 ed.)
Rogelio Saenz, David G. Embrick, Nestor P. Rodriguez
R7,243 Discovery Miles 72 430 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Examining key countries in every region of world, this handbook presents population profiles and analyses concerning racial/ethnic disparities and changing intergroup relations. Inside, prominent scholars from various parts of the world and disciplines address the links between stratification, demography, and conflict across the globe. Organized by region/continent, coverage for each profiled country includes demographic information; a historical overview that addresses past racial/ethnic conflict; identification of the most salient demographic trends and issues that the country faces; theoretical issues related to the linkages between stratification, demography, and conflict; methodological issues including quality of data and cutting-edge methods to better understand the issue at hand; and details on the possible future of the existing trends and issues with particular emphasis on public policy and human rights. This handbook will help readers to better understand the commonalities and differences that exist globally in the interplay between stratification, demography, and conflict. In addition, it also provides an excellent inventory of theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches that are needed to better comprehend this issue. This handbook will appeal to students, researchers, and policy analysts in the areas of race and ethnic relations, demography, inequality, international sociology, international relations, foreign studies, social geography, and social development.

The Global Old Age Care Industry - Tapping into migrants for tackling the old age care crisis (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021):... The Global Old Age Care Industry - Tapping into migrants for tackling the old age care crisis (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Vincent Horn, Cornelia Schweppe, Anita Boecker, Maria Bruquetas Callejo
R3,899 Discovery Miles 38 990 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book focuses on the emerging global old age care industry developing as a response to tackle the "old age care crisis" in richer countries. In this global industry, multiple actors are involved in recruiting, skilling and placing migrant care workers in different spheres of the receiving country's old age care system. This book delves into the analysis of these actors and the multiple levels influencing their activities. Accordingly, it examines the significance of old age care regimes and policies as well as intermediaries and promoters for initiating, shaping and perpetuating old age care arrangements based on migrant labor and the relationships within them. Particular emphasis is placed on the risks and implications of these arrangements for the well-being and the social protection of the different actors involved. The book analyzes these processes and structures from a global perspective including different countries and regions of the world.

Philosophies of Integration - Immigration and the Idea of Citizenship in France and Britain (Hardcover, 2nd ed. 1998): Adrian... Philosophies of Integration - Immigration and the Idea of Citizenship in France and Britain (Hardcover, 2nd ed. 1998)
Adrian Favell
R2,889 Discovery Miles 28 890 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A comprehensive comparative study of the distinct ideas and political arguments that have shaped French and British policies towards their ethnic minorities, and the effects of these intellectual frameworks at local, national and European levels. Charting the politics and events that brought the respective institutional solutions together, the author sets out the divergent conceptualisations of citizenship, nationality, pluralism, autonomy, public order and tolerance that make up the national 'philosophies' in the two countries - republican integration in France and multicultural race relations in Britain. This new edition, published in paperback, contains a new preface bringing the volume up-to-date in the light of new legislation and progress.

Migrant Integration Between Homeland and Host Society Volume 1 - Where does the country of origin fit? (Hardcover, 1st ed.... Migrant Integration Between Homeland and Host Society Volume 1 - Where does the country of origin fit? (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Agnieszka Weinar, Anne Unterreiner, Philippe Fargues
R3,572 Discovery Miles 35 720 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book provides a theoretical framing to analyse and examine the interaction between origin and destination in the migrant integration process. Coverage offers a set of concrete conceptual tools, which can be operationalised when measuring integration. This title is the first of two complementary volumes, each of which is designed to stand alone and provide a different approach to the topic. Here, the chapters offer a detailed look at integration across eight key areas: labour, education, language and culture, civic and political participation, housing, social ties, religion, and access to citizenship. Readers are presented with an examination into the globally available knowledge on interactions between emigration/diaspora policies on one hand and integration policies on the other. Migrants actively belong to two places: the land they left behind and the home they are seeking to build. This book gives an insightful argument for the need to include information about countries and communities of origin when examining integration, which is often overlooked. It will appeal to academics, policymakers, integration practitioners, civil society organisations, as well as students.Overall, the chapters establish a cohesive analytical framework to this important topic. A complementary volume: Migrant Integration between Homeland and Host Society Volume 2: How countries of origin impact migrant integration outcomes: an analysis, edited by A. Di Bartolomeo, S. Kalantaryan, J. Salamonska and P. Fargues builds upon this foundation and presents an empirical approach to migrant integration.

Voices of the Windrush Generation - The real story told by the people themselves (Hardcover): David Matthews Voices of the Windrush Generation - The real story told by the people themselves (Hardcover)
David Matthews 1
R582 R247 Discovery Miles 2 470 Save R335 (58%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

'Evocative, authentic and brilliantly told - a wonderful read.' David Lammy Foreword by West Indies Cricketer Sir Clive Lloyd Voices of the Windrush Generation is a powerful collection of stories from the men, women and children of the Windrush generation - West Indians who emigrated to Britain between 1948 and 1971 in response to labour shortages, and in search of a better life. Edited by journalist and bestselling author David Matthews, this book paints a vivid portrait of what it meant for those who left the Caribbean for Britain during the early days of mass migration. Through his own, and many other stories, Matthews explores: why and how so many people came to Britain after World War II, their hopes and dreams, the communities they formed and the difficulties they faced being separated from family and friends while integrating into an often hostile society. We hear how lives were transformed, and what became of the generations that followed, taking the reader right up to the present day, and the impact of the current Windrush deportation scandal upon everyday people. At once a nostalgic treasure trove of human interest, which unearths the real stories behind the headlines, and a celebration of black British culture, Voices of the Windrush Generation is an absorbing and important book that gives a platform to voices that need to be heard.

Difficult Diasporas - The Transnational Feminist Aesthetic of the Black Atlantic (Hardcover, New): Samantha Pinto Difficult Diasporas - The Transnational Feminist Aesthetic of the Black Atlantic (Hardcover, New)
Samantha Pinto
R3,112 Discovery Miles 31 120 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this comparative study of contemporary Black Atlantic women writers, Samantha Pinto demonstrates the crucial role of aesthetics in defining the relationship between race, gender, and location. Thinking beyond national identity to include African, African American, Afro-Caribbean, and Black British literature, Difficult Diasporasbrings together an innovative archive of twentieth-century texts marked by their break with conventional literary structures. These understudied resources mix genres, as in the memoir/ethnography/travel narrativeTell My Horseby Zora Neale Hurston, and eschew linear narratives, as illustrated in the book-length, non-narrative poem by M. Nourbese Philip, She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks. Such an aesthetics, which protests against stable categories and fixed divisions, both reveals and obscures that which it seeks to represent: the experiences of Black women writers in the African Diaspora.Drawing on postcolonial and feminist scholarship in her study of authors such as Jackie Kay, Elizabeth Alexander, Erna Brodber, Ama Ata Aidoo, among others, Pinto argues for the critical importance of cultural form and demands that we resist the impulse to prioritize traditional notions of geographic boundaries. Locating correspondences between seemingly disparate times and places, and across genres, Pinto fully engages the unique possibilities of literature and culture to redefine race and gender studies.Samantha Pintois Assistant Professor of Feminist Literary and Cultural Studies in the English Department at Georgetown University.In theAmerican Literatures Initiative

Securing Pension Provision - The Challenge of Reforming the Age of Entitlement (Hardcover): C. Blair Securing Pension Provision - The Challenge of Reforming the Age of Entitlement (Hardcover)
C. Blair
R1,866 Discovery Miles 18 660 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

By comparing Germany, France, the UK and the USA this study explores how governments have tackled the increased pressure of financing state pensions. Specifically, it looks at the approach of each of these countries to raising the age of entitlement in order to understand the ways in which this policy was introduced in different countries.

Social Aging in a Delhi Neighborhood (Hardcover): Narender K. Chadha, John van Willigen Social Aging in a Delhi Neighborhood (Hardcover)
Narender K. Chadha, John van Willigen
R2,755 Discovery Miles 27 550 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The core of the research reported in this study was a survey of men and women 55 years and older sampled from a comprehensive list of residents. The authors asked questions about social networks, control over household assets, household composition, life satisfaction, and subjective health, among other things. The social network questions had been used in an earlier study done in Kentucky. Nearly everything else had been developed for the Delhi study. The findings were similar to those in the earlier study: the size of people's networks does not decline materially until they are older (80 plus). Age itself did not seem that important, but health was crucial. Persons who reported they were healthy had larger networks.

As one might expect, joint family life has great impact on the nature of social life among older people. This has to do with the big difference in the situation of men and women in India. In addition to being patrilineal kin groups, joint families are dominated by male economic interests. The males as a collective group inherit property. Women have much less control of household assets. This ethnographic fact appeared very clearly in the answers to questions about participation in household decision making. High involvement in decisions, which the authors construed as a measure of power, spilled over into other aspects of the social aging process. Persons who were powerful in their households tended to have large networks, better subjective health, and much higher life satisfaction. They also tended to be men. The women tended to have small networks, low life satisfaction, lower subjective health, and less power. These differences between men and women were all substantial and highly significant. Gender is an extraordinarily important factor in the outcomes of social aging processes in India.

African Immigrant Families in Another France (Hardcover): L. Bass African Immigrant Families in Another France (Hardcover)
L. Bass
R1,508 Discovery Miles 15 080 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Immigrant incorporation is a critical challenge for France and other European societies today. Black Africans migrants are racialized and endowed with an immigrant status, which carries low status and is durable into the second generation. This book elucidates the conflict and issues pertinent to social integration.

The Second Generation - Emigres from Nazi Germany as HistoriansWith a Biobibliographic Guide (Hardcover): Andreas W. Daum,... The Second Generation - Emigres from Nazi Germany as HistoriansWith a Biobibliographic Guide (Hardcover)
Andreas W. Daum, Hartmut Lehmann, James J. Sheehan
R3,991 Discovery Miles 39 910 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Of the thousands of children and young adults who fled Nazi Germany in the years before the Second World War, a remarkable number went on to become trained historians in their adopted homelands. By placing autobiographical testimonies alongside historical analysis and professional reflections, this richly varied collection comprises the first sustained effort to illuminate the role these men and women played in modern historiography. Focusing particularly on those who settled in North America, Great Britain, and Israel, it culminates in a comprehensive, meticulously researched biobibliographic guide that provides a systematic overview of the lives and works of this "second generation."

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