Guests and Aliens presents a comprehensive analysis of worldwide immigration by one of the worlds leading experts on globalization. Putting the current crisis of immigration into a historical context for the first time, Sassen suggests that the American experience represents only one phase in a history of global border crossing. She describes the mass migrations of Italians and Eastern European…
This work on Islam and politics updates major country case studies and adds coverage of Tunisia, Algeria, the Taliban of Afghanistan and HAMAS. It also addresses the issues of democratization and the clash of civilization debate.
Tidak banyak diketahui tentang keadaan kependudukan Timor Timur selama dalam penjajahan Portugal sejak 1681 hingga 1976. Demikian pula, tidak banyak juga referensi tentang kependudukan Timor Timur yang dipublikasikan dia media ilmiah ataupun media umum. Dari publikasi U.N. (1975-1980) -Demographic Year Book-, misalnya, hanya ditemukan data kependudukan untuk Portuguese Timor atau East Timor ten…
This book examines the consequences of projected population decline and population aging as well as policy responses to address demographic change.
Becoming British Columbia is the first comprehensive, demographic history of British Columbia. Investigating critical moments in the demographic record and linking demographic patterns to larger social and political questions, it shows how biology, politics, and history conspired with sex, death, and migration to create a particular kind of society. John Belshaw overturns the widespread ten…
September 11 provided a vision and a strategy to a US Presidency that until then had been groping for fresh ideas and a relevant foreign policy. The 'global war on terror' now became an article of faith for the United States. The US Government, media and think-tanks turned their attention to Islam, the Arab world and Saudi Arabia, and held them responsible for the catastrophe unleashed upon the…
In essence a manual for reconstructing the demographic past of Central Africa, this is the first concerted attempt to recover the pre-1960 demography of an African region on the basis of colonial statistics. The authors begin by exploring the unexpected strengths, as well as the shortcomings, of extant records. They proceed to discuss how various social science disciplines can contribute to our…
This work is a major contribution to the understandingof the demography of Malaysia--a country abundant in land and natural resources, but with a long history of a shortage of people and human resources. The book looks at changes and differentials in fertility behavior, the causes, and the consequences. It outlines the modern history of changes in Malaysia's population and the economic, social,…
Tibetans form the major part of the population of the Tibet Autonomous Region. Of all Tibetans throughout China, around half live in Tibet while the rest mainly scatter in Qinghai, Gansu, Sichuan and Yunnan provinces.
The book provides not only an up-to-date overview of Indonesia's political and economic situation, but also the most comprehensive treatment of population and human resources in the world's fourth most populous country. As well as assessing recent trends in fertility, mortality, migration, urbanization, education and health, incorporating early results from the 1995 Intercensal Survey (SUPAS), …