Population and demography Books

Book SynopsisThis book explores various aspects related to human longevity and aging beyond 100 years old. It examines all domains of health and well-being of this elite group including the current demographics, genetics and epigenetics of exceptional longevity, cardiovascular risk factors, dementia, nutrition, physical activity, African American and Hispanic centenarians, financial planning, religion, spirituality, whole health, wellness, oral health, and nature. The book also delves into the lives of supercentenarians, defined as expert survivors who have lived beyond 110 years old. The implications of the Age-Friendly Healthcare Systems (AFHS) Movement on the care of centenarians are also discussed. This book is a valuable resource for healthcare professionals, epidemiologists, public health professionals, policy makers, and anyone interested in the study of aging and longevity.Table of Contents1. AGEISM REVOLUTION & HUMAN LONGEVITY BEYOND AGE 100DIANE MARTIN, NADIA IJAZ AND RAYA ELFADEL KHEIRBEK 2. DEMOGRAPHICS OF CENTENARIANS AROUND THE WORLDEMILY ZAGORSKI AND CONRAD MAY3. GENETICS & EXTREME LIMITS OF HUMAN LIFESPANBRAXTON D. MITCHELL4. CARDIOVASCULAR RISK FACTORS IN CENTENARIANSAMANDA LANGE, MICHAEL A. SILVERMAN, AND ADAM G. GOLDEN5. DO CENTENARIANS GET DEMENTIA? JORY CRULL, KATHERINE BARLIS, OLGA-BRAWAMAN-MINTZER, CHRISTOPHER BLASY, AND JACOBO MINTZER6. NUTRITION IN CENTENARIANSGALYA BIGMAN AND ALICE S. RYAN 7. PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IN CENTENARIANSALICE S. RYAN AND MARGARITA S. TREUTH 8. AFRICAN AMERICAN CENTENARIANSRITA HARGRAVE AND KANYA NESBETH9. HISPANIC PARADOXDANYA P. ANOUTI AND ALEXANDER. BEARD, MARITZA BUENAVER, MARIA D. LLORENTE10. FINANCIAL PLANNING & FISCAL POLICY FOR CENTENARIANSADRIAN A. LLORENTE11. RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY & L ONGEVITYJENI COOK, CAITLYN GUDMUNDSEN, RAY FURR12. WHOLE HEALTH, WELLNESS & LONGEVITYMARY GALLAGHER-SEAMAN13. DENTAL CARE AND LONGEVITYPIERRE M. CARTIER14. CONTRIBUTIONS TO LONGEVITY AND WELLBEING FROM NATURE ANTOINETTE V. SHAPPELL, SEAN H. GARTLAND, KELLY A. BURNETT 15. SUPERCENTENARIANS MAITHRI KONDAPAKA AND RAYA ELFADEL KHEIRBEK16. AGE FRIENDLY HEALTHCARE SYSTEMSANISA NAHABEDIAN AND NICOLE BRANDT

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Book SynopsisThis open access handbook examines the phenomenon of South-South migration and its relationship to inequality in the Global South, where at least a third of all international migration takes place. Drawing on contributions from nearly 70 leading migration scholars, mainly from the Global South, the handbook challenges dominant conceptualisations of migration, offering new perspectives and insights that can inform theoretical and policy understandings and unlock migration’s development potential. The handbook is divided into four parts, each highlighting often overlooked mobility patterns within and between regions of the Global South, as well as the inequalities faced by those who move. Key cross-cutting themes include gender, race, poverty and income inequality, migration decision making, intermediaries, remittances, technology, climate change, food security and migration governance. The handbook is an indispensable resource on South-South migration and inequality for academics, researchers, postgraduates and development practitioners.Table of ContentsChapter 1 South-South Migration, Inequality and Development: An IntroductionHeaven Crawley and Joseph Teye PART I Conceptualising South-South Migration Chapter 2 The Enduring Impacts of Slavery: An Historical Perspective on South-South Migration Veronica Fynn Bruey and Heaven Crawley Chapter 3 Recentering the South in Studies of Migration Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh Chapter 4 Writing the Camp Yousif M. Qasmiyeh and Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh Chapter 5 Migration Research, Coloniality and Epistemic Injustice Karl Landström and Heaven Crawley Chapter 6 Rethinking Power and Reciprocity in the “Field” Kudakwashe Vanyaro Chapter 7 What does it mean to move? Humanising Cultural Work in South-South Migration Alison Phipps and Hyab Yohannes PART II Unpacking “the South” in South-South Migration Chapter 8 Trends in South-South Migration Kerilyn Schewel and Alix Debray Chapter 9 The Dynamics of South-South Migration in Africa Joseph Awetori Yaro and Mary Boatemaa Setrana Chapter 10 Migration as a Collective Project in the Global South: a case study of Hadiya Migration to South Africa Dereje Feyissa, Meron Zeleke and Fana Gebresenbet Chapter 11 Migration and Inequality in the Burkina Faso- Côte d’Ivoire Corridor Dabiré Bonayi and Kando Amédée Soumahoro Chapter 12 Unequal Origins to Unequal Destinations: Trends and Characteristics of Migrants' Social and Economic Inclusion in South America Victoria Prieto Rosas and Gisela P. Zapata Chapter 13 The Making of Migration Trails in the Americas: Ethnographic Network Tracing of Haitians on the Move Louis Herns Marcelin and Toni Cela Chapter 14 Migrant Labour and Inequalities in the Nepal-Malaysia Corridor (and Beyond) Seng Guan Yeoh and Anita Ghimire Chapter 15 Inter-regional Migration in the Global South: Chinese Migrants in Ghana Joseph Teye, Jixia Lu and Gordon Crawford Chapter 16 Inter-regional Migration in the Global South: African Migration to Latin America Luisa Feline Freier, Leon Lucar Oba and María Angélica Fernández Bautista PART III Inequalities and South-South Migration Chapter 17 Poverty, Income Inequalities and Migration in the Global South Giulia Casentini, Laura Hammond and Oliver Bakewell Chapter 18 Gendered Migration in the Global South: An Intersectional Perspective on Inequality Nicola Piper and Tanja Bastia Chapter 19 Haitian Migration and Structural Racism in Brazil Jailson de Souza e Silva, Jorge Luiz Barbosa and Fernando Lannes Fernandes Chapter 20 Climate Change and Human Mobility in the Global South Ingrid Boas, Ademola Olayiwola and Mesh Gautam Chapter 21 Why, when and how? The Role of Inequality in Migration Decision-making Caterina Mazzilli, Jessica Hagen-Zanker and Carmen Leon Himmelstine Chapter 22 Overcoming and Reproducing Inequalities: Mediated Migration in the “Global South” Katharine Jones, Heila Sha and Mohammad Rashed Alam Bhuiyan Chapter 23 The Design and Use of Digital Technologies in the Context of South-South Migration G. Hari Harindranath, Tim Unwin and Maria Rosa Lorini Chapter 24 Migrant Resource Flows and Development in the Global South Edward Asiedu, Alexandra Tapsoba and Stephen Gelb Chapter 25 South-South Migration and Children’s Education: Expanded Challenges and Increased Opportunities Henrietta Nyamnjoh, Mackenzie Seaman and Meron Zeleke Chapter 26 Mapping the Linkages between Food Security, Inequality, Migration and Development in the Global South Jonathan Crush and Sujata Ramachandran PART IV Responses to South-South Migration Chapter 27 The Governance of South-South migration: Same or Different? Francesco Carella Chapter 28 Policies towards Migration in Africa Joseph Kofi Teye and Linda Oucho Chapter 29 Migration Governance in South America: Change and Continuity in Times of “Crisis” Marcia Vera-Espinoza Chapter 30 Perú and Migration from Venezuela: From Early Adjustment to Policy Misalignment Jacqueline Mazza and Nicolas Forero Villareal Chapter 31 The “ASEAN Way” in Migration Governance Rey Asis and Carlos Maningat Chapter 32 Unfair and Unjust: Temporary Labour Migration Programmes in and from Asia and the Pacific as Barriers to Migrant Justice Pia Oberoi and Kate Sheill Chapter 33 Migrant Political Mobilisation and Solidarity Building in the Global South Mariama Awumbila, Faisal Garba, Akosua Darkwah and Mariama Zaami

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Book SynopsisPart I. Introduction.- Chapter 1. Loneliness: an underestimated public health threat (Béatrice d'Hombres).- Chapter 2. Measuring loneliness: the European Union Loneliness Survey covering 27 European countries (Caterina Mauri).- Part II. Loneliness and Its Associates.- Chapter 3. Who feels lonely in the European Union? (Francesco Berlingieri).- Chapter 4. Childhood experiences, health and loneliness (Matija Kovacic).- Chapter 5. Social media use and loneliness (Béatrice d'Hombres).- Chapter 6. Loneliness, societal preferences and political attitudes (Alexander Langenkamp).- Part III. Loneliness Interventions And Conclusions.- Chapter 7.  Counteracting the effects of loneliness: empirical research and policy interventions (Elizabeth J. Casabianca).- Chapter 8. Taking stock of loneliness in the European Union: a future pathway (Sylke V. Schnepf).

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Book SynopsisThere are many detailed accounts of nineteenth-century emigrants, of their journeys and settlements abroad – but what of those they left behind? This book delves into the heart of Georgian Britain to explore the role that the men and women of the Scottish Borders played in the mass emigration of the early nineteenth century. Although most never departed themselves, their perceptions of wealth, poverty, morality and community shaped the flow of emigrants from the rural south to the wide and expanding British Empire, as well as its North American rival, the United States. Scouring the records of grand estates, humble Kirks, flamboyant newspapers and family correspondences, the author returns the Scottish Borders to the centre of Scotland’s agricultural, industrial and demographic revolutions. Standing on the sharp edge of rural transformation, the Borders played both archetype and exception, pioneering the way from a regional past to an imperial future.Table of ContentsContents: Finding a Place for Sending Communities – The Myth of Clearance – Poverty and the Promise of Emigration – The Established Church v. Emigration – The Kirk and Rural Change – Commercial Ventures – Rumours and Reportage –The Family Economy – Chains of Emigration – Perceptions of Emigration.

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Book SynopsisCe travail a obtenu le prix Latsis 2009 de l'Université de Genève. A l'instar d'autres sciences sociales, la démographie et la démographie historique en particulier a longtemps souffert d'un dialogue imparfait entre approches micro et approches macro. Cet ouvrage montre que le processus de la transition démographique, ce passage de hauts niveaux de mortalité et de fécondité à des niveaux bas, ne peut être compris dans sa complexité sans une approche intégrative, combinant concepts et analyses micro- et macro-démographiques. En se basant sur une multitude de sources et de données (recensements, registres de l'état civil, registres de permis de séjour, annuaires d'adresses), l'auteur analyse la transition de la reproduction dans la Genève du 19e siècle, une ville en permanente recomposition socio-structurelle en raison d'une immigration soutenue. Reposant sur un grand nombre d'outils statistiques (dont l'analyse multiniveau), l'ouvrage analyse la transition des structures démographiques et sociales d'une part, la transition des comportements reproductifs des familles d'autre part, et montre, enfin, l'interdépendance entre structures et comportements démographiques pendant la transition de la reproduction.

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Book SynopsisOver the last two decades, globalisation has accelerated international migration flows, particularly of skilled labour. Yet increasing migration by skilled workers from developing countries («brain drain») has raised serious concerns internationally about the adverse development impact on their countries of origin. This book, however, highlights the positive aspects of skilled labour migration as scientific diasporas are playing a growing role in the transfer of technology, skills and knowledge («brain gain») to their home countries. This is a very significant development in a globalised world where science, technology and knowledge can trigger economic and social transformations. The book presents solid empirical evidence of the contributions scientific diasporas make to their countries of origin, based on primary surveys of skilled migrants from Colombia, India and South Africa employed in Switzerland, a major destination country. The findings lead to a better understanding of the motives for migration, the profile of the scientific diaspora communities in Switzerland, and the varied ways in which they help their home countries. The book makes a significant contribution to the international policy debate and dialogue on migration and development. In particular, it shows how to leverage the potential of scientific diasporas as agents of home country development, by identifying good practices and offering specific recommendations for the countries of origin and of destination.Table of ContentsContents: Gabriela Tejada/Jean-Claude Bolay: Foreword – Jean-Baptiste Meyer: Preface – Jean-Claude Bolay: North-South Scientific Cooperation: a Challenge for Sustainable Development – Marie-Claire Caloz-Tschopp: Scientific Diasporas, Migration and Development. A Perspective from Philosophy and Political Theory – Piyasiri Wickramasekara: Transnational Communities: Reflections on Definitions, Measurement and Contributions – Marco Pecoraro/Rosita Fibbi: Highly Skilled Migrants in the Swiss Labour Market, with a Special Focus on Migrants from Developing Countries – Gabriela Tejada: The Colombian Scientific Diaspora in Switzerland – Ibrahima Amadou Dia: The Indian Scientific Diaspora in Switzerland – Francelle Kwankam: The South African Scientific Diaspora in Switzerland – Gabriela Tejada/Ibrahima Amadou Dia/Francelle Kwankam: Colombian, Indian and South African Scientific Diasporas in Switzerland. Concluding Remarks and Implications for Policy and Research.

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Book SynopsisIn 2005, the deaths of two teenagers in Clichy-sous-Bois provoked three weeks of rioting in French banlieues. Cars were burned, buildings were damaged and young people clashed with the police in unprecedented scenes of violence. The government declared a state of emergency as the riots spread across France. Two years later, the French public were met with familiar images when riots broke out in the Parisian suburb of Villiers-le-Bel. What were the underlying causes of these episodes of extreme violence? What did the riots signify? What do they tell us about French society? This book takes the reader inside the world of the banlieues and explores the nature and causes of the riots. Drawing on qualitative fieldwork conducted in Villiers-le-Bel, the author offers a unique insight into the motivating factors behind the violence. On a larger scale, the book examines the relationship between the underprivileged suburbs and the French republican model. The author explores a triad of interconnections: between republican ideals and the reality of daily life in the banlieues; between national projections of unity and localized realities of disunity; and between figures of authority and ordinary citizens.Trade Review«In contrast to the many security-orientated interpretations that dominated political and media discourse on the riots, this is the first English-language study that penetrates to the underlying social, political and even ideological factors that help explain those violent events. Through meticulous fieldwork and an impressive grasp of the history of immigration in France and its social consequences, Moran elucidates how the links between immigration, identity and citizenship have been used and sometimes misused in dominant political discourse, and how the ideology of French republicanism has not kept pace with the evolution of French society. This is an illuminating book that constitutes a much-needed corrective to the stock interpretations of the riots.» (Professor G.G. Raymond, University of Bristol) «In this extremely captivating and well-written book, Matthew Moran asks whether the riots of 2005-2007 represented an outright rejection of French society and its underlying republican values, or constituted a desperate plea for social inclusion by the hundreds of people involved. [...] This highly compelling volume (...) succeeds both in deftly relating the recent French riot to what Moran calls the modern ‘blind spot of French republicanism’ and in elucidating on variations in the propensity to engage in urban disorder.» (David Waddington, Modern & Contemporary France April 2012) «The book provides an extremely useful insight into the social, political, ideological and religious netherworld of a French society that is experiencing serious fractures on its housing estates.» (PBo, Bulletin Quotidien Europe 18/9/2012)Table of ContentsContents: Detailed analysis of the riots and their interpretation – Exploration of the notion of French republicanism and the relationship between this abstract concept and the reality of the banlieues – Examination of the evolution of the French banlieues and the challenges facing these areas – Case study of Villiers-le-Bel based on qualitative fieldwork – Macro-analysis of republican ideology and its representation as well as pragmatic interaction with people involved in the riots on both sides.

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Book SynopsisThis book seeks to investigate gender differences in final year undergraduates’ employment expectations of their starting jobs, including salary, occupational and working region expectations, and to identify factors that have contributed to gender differences in these expectations. It employs an on-site self-completion questionnaire survey and a follow-up semi-structured interview carried out in a university in Central China. The study adopts the conceptual perspective of ‘choice and constraint’, which means that male and female final year undergraduates are able to make their own choices towards employment expectations; however, their choices of employment expectations are limited by a number of constraints. Empirical studies find that there are gender differences in employment expectations. This study further reveals the influence of gendered economic roles, experienced or perceived sex discrimination in China’s graduate labour market job preferences and parents’ expectations on those gender differences in employment expectations.Table of ContentsContents: Background of the Study – Review of the Relevant Literature and Theories – Research Design and Methodology – Gender Differences in Final Year Undergraduates’ Salary Expectations – Gender Differences in Final Year Undergraduates’ Occupational Expectations – Gender Differences in Final Year Undergraduates’ Working Region Expectations – Discussion and Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisItaly is one of the most recent immigratory destinations in Europe, having long been one of the continent’s most important sources of emigration. Due to its strategic position in the Mediterranean, the Italian peninsula is a crossroads of complex transnational movements and represents a unique and dynamic context for the study of contemporary migration and its representation through the diverse channels of media, literature and film. The product of a two-year interdisciplinary research project into representations of migration to Italy, this volume brings together scholarly contributions from the fields of migration studies, linguistics, media, literature and film studies as well as essays by practitioners and activists. It provides both a multi-faceted snapshot of how diverse representations of immigration capture experiences and affect decision-making dynamics and an in-depth study of how media, literature and cinema contribute to the public perception of migrants within the destination culture.Table of ContentsContents: Marco Binotto: Invaders, Aliens and Criminals: Metaphors and Spaces in the Media Definition of Migration and Security Policies – Marco Bruno: The Journalistic Construction of «Emergenza Lampedusa»: The «Arab Spring» and the «Landings» Issue in Media Representations of Migration – Mahmoud Zidan: The Image of Italy and Immigrants to Italy in the Media: A Destination or Place of Damnation? – Federico Faloppa: Media and Migration: Some Linguistic Reflections – Andrea Pogliano: Framing Migration: News Images and (Meta-)Communicative Messages – Gabriela Jacomella: The Silence of Migrants: The Underrepresentation of Migrant Voices in the Italian Mainstream Media – Anna Meli: Training Journalists on Immigration: Experiences and Reflections – Eugénie Saitta: Ethnicity and Organizational Processes in «Mixed» Media: The Case of Yalla Italia – Grazia Biorci: Beyond Hybridization: Metaphors and New Visions in «Migrant Literature» in Italian – Nora Moll: Narrative Strategies, Literary Imaging and Reflections on Identity: Constructing a Narrative Community in Italy – Emma Bond: «Skin Memories»: Expressions of Corporeality in Recent Trans-national Writing in Italian – Maria Grazia Negro: The Decentred Gaze of Postcolonial Literature on Italians Past and Present – Daniele Comberiati/Linde Luijnenburg: New Postcolonial Art Forms: Timira as Multi-Genre Object Between Cinema and Literature – Derek Duncan: The Postcolonial Afterlife of Primo Levi – Loredana Polezzi: Migrant Writing as (Self-)Translation: The Transnational Trajectory of Giose Rimanelli – Vito Zagarrio: Imagined Journeys: Italian Directors and Immigration – Guido Bonsaver: Accented Voices in Contemporary Italian Cinema – Millicent Marcus: Federico Bondi’s Mar nero: Channelling the Geographic Unconscious – Paolo Russo: Migration Told Through Noir Conventions in La sconosciuta and Gomorra – Alessandro Jedlowski: Nigerian Migrants, Nollywood Videos and the Emergence of an «Anti-Humanitarian» Representation of Migration in Italian Cinema – Áine O’Healy: Witnessing History, Recounting Suffering: The Documentary Project of Andrea Segre – Alessandro Triulzi: Roaming to Rome: Archiving and Filming Migrant Voices in Italy.

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Book SynopsisThis book paints a picture of poor older people’s life-worlds in Beijing, China. Instead of viewing them as pitiful recipients of vulnerabilities and deprivations, this book sheds light on how poor older people exert their active agency to live through their life difficulties – i.e. how they negotiate resources within and outside of family to pursue the kind of lives they have reason to value. Based on a prolonged period of ethnographic fieldwork in Beijing, the researcher highlights the experiences, perspectives, and strategies of these people developed in the context of their economic hardships against the background of massive social reform and demographic ageing in China.Table of ContentsContents: Literature Review and Conceptual Framework – Methodology – Research Background – Intergenerational Relationships and Resource Negotiation within the Family – Guanxi Networking and Resource Negotiation outside of the Family – Resource Usage and the Pursuit of Old Age Lifestyles.

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Book SynopsisAt 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 World Congress in Stockholm 1960, when historians took the first tentative initiatives to create a wholly new interdisciplinary commission for historical demography, a meeting place for a budding discipline where researchers in letters and science could meet, exchange ideas, cultivate and develop a new field. This book is the outcome of that decision. Demography, past, present and future is a common concern for all inhabitants of this planet. The variation is great, however, with regard to sources, social and political conditions, state of the art, technological development, national and local initiatives. In the course of half a century many changes take place. Keeping abreast of the gigantic streams of information and innovation in the field is demanding, even more so for a discipline with global dimensions and ambitions. The book makes fascinating reading, and preparing it has been a rewarding and thought provoking experience. The thirty-seven articles in the book represent as many different stories.Table of ContentsAntoinette Fauve-Chamoux, Ioan Bolovan and Sølvi Sogner: A Global History of Historical Demography. Time for an Anthology – Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux: Historical Demography and International Network Developments (1928–2010) – Dennis D. Cordell, Elizabeth Omoluabi and Nancy Stiegler: Historical Demography on Sub-Saharan Africa (1975−2010) – Hernán Otero: Historical Demography in Argentina – Rebecca Kippen and David Lucas: Sources for an Australian Interdisciplinary Historical Demography – Peter Teibenbacher and Gudrun Exner: A Short History of Historical Demography in Austria. From a Population Issue to Special Scientific Discipline – Dalia Leinarte, Andrejs Plakans and Toivo U. Raun: Historical Demography in the Baltic States (Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia) – Isabelle Devos and Christa Matthys: A History of Historical Demography in Belgium – Béatrice Craig: Historical Demography in Canada – Zhongwei Zhao: The Development of Chinese Historical Demography since 1950 – Ludmila Fialova and Eduard Maur: Historical Demography in the Czech Republic – Hans Chr. Johansen: Historical Demography in Denmark – Peter Kitson: A History of the Historical Demography of England and Wales – Beatrice Moring: Historical Demography in Finland 1960−2010 – Isabelle Séguy: The French School of Historical Demography (1950−2000): Strengths and Weaknesses – Rolf Gehrmann: Historical Demography in Germany – Violetta Hionidou: Historical Demography of Greek Populations – Tamás Faragó: Historical Demography in Hungary: A History of Research – Olof Gardarsdottir: Historical Demography in Iceland, 1970–2011 – Ravindran Gopinath: Indian Historical Demography – Christopher M. Kennedy: History of Historical Demography in Ireland – Lucia Pozzi and Eugenio Sonnino: A History of Historical Demography in Italy – Akira Hayami: Historical Demography in Japan: Achievements and Problems – Kuentae Kim: Family Demography in Traditional Chosŏn Korea: Survival Strategies of Families – Maria Luiza Marcilio: Historical Demography in Latin America: An Assessment – Agustin Grajales Porras: Mexican Historical Demography – Theo Engelen and Ad van der Woude: Historical Demography in the Netherlands – Sølvi Sogner: Historical Demography in Norway 1960−2010 – Cezary Kuklo: Polish Historical Demography. Past, Present, Future – Maria Norberta Amorim and Paulo Teodoro de Matos: Historical Demography in Portugal (1950−2012) – Ioan Bolovan: Half a Century of Historical Demography in Romania (1960−2010) – Irina Troitskaia and Alexandre Avdeev: Historical Demography in Russia – Michael Anderson: Population History in Scotland: Opportunities Under-explored – Pavol Tišliar and Ján Golian: Historical Demography in Slovakia in the Last Fifty Years – Ofelia Rey Castelao: Historical Demography in Spain (1960−2011) – Lars-Göran Tedebrand: Historical Demography in Sweden and its International Visibility – Anne-Lise Head-König: From Statistics and Political Economy to Historical Demography. Two and a Half Centuries of Population Research in Switzerland – Emily R. Merchant and J. David Hacker: Historical Demography in United States – Index

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Book SynopsisQu'y a-t-il de commun entre l'alcoolisme, les maladies veneriennes, la tuberculose? A priori peu de choses, en dehors de leur etiquette commune de fleau social. Mais, si chacun presente des specificites propres, force est de contacter la convergence des dangers qu'ils presentent. Ces fleaux sociaux menacent la population. Ils sont la cause d'un surcroit de mortalite dans une France qui se singularise deja par de hauts niveaux comparativement a ses voisins. Mais ils compromettent aussi la qualite de la population en vertu de l'idee selon laquelle ils se transmettent de generation en generation. Aussi, face a un tel danger, les fleaux sociaux font-ils l'objet d'une intense mobilisation qui conduira a la mise en place d'une veritable politique de population que l'expression hygiene sociale subsume. Un ensemble de mesures est portee par des associations reunies au sein d'institutions qui lui sont dediees et ce, en depit de concurrences fortes entre elles. Leur objectif : proteger voire encourager le renouvellement demographique. Le livre s'interesse a l'intense mobilisation qu'ont suscite ces fleaux sociaux et aux actions - le plus souvent convergentes qu'ils ont menes sous le label d' hygiene sociale . La lutte contre les fleaux est passee en particulier par l'education des populations. L'analyse de ses contenus, si elle temoigne des balbutiements de l'education a la sante devoile aussi les representations de ce que doit etre la demographie francaise et de ce qui la menace.

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Book SynopsisL'autocar est un mode de transport méconnu des discours sur la mondialisation qui concentre les vécus d'une Europe en construction, ceux des laissés pour compte des mutations géopolitiques ou de ceux qui sont en quête d'un futur que leur pays ne leur promet pas. L'auteure dresse le portrait de ces existences mobiles entrevues dans des voyages entre la Roumanie et la France, en conjuguant une écriture en profondeur et la rigueur d'une observation méthodique et empathique qui s'appuie sur ses carnets de bord. Le résultat est à la hauteur d'une recherche ethnographique novatrice identifiant des pratiques de mobilité inédites, prolongée par des entretiens qui affinent les premiers échanges nés du hasard. A la vitesse bridée du cheminement de l'autocar, on découvre, dans ce va-et-vient entre sociétés, l'économie des dynamiques identitaires telle qu'elle fonctionne au fil des générations migrantes, les logiques qui animent les oppositions entre Occident et marges de l'Orient , espaces réinventés certes après la Chute du Mur mais dont le jeu subtil des décloisonnements identitaires se dévoile progressivement sous la loupe des imaginaires et des appartenances plurielles.

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Book SynopsisThis book is based on detailed interviews with a group of Irish women who have experienced marital separation. It links the women’s accounts with literature on the values and beliefs about marriage, women and family which were prevalent when they were growing up in Ireland in the 1950s and 1960s. The book chronicles their young adult years, the early stages of their marriages and the events and processes which led to their separations. It explores the women’s emotional reactions at the time of separating, the types of support which they found beneficial and the personal, social and financial consequences of having separated. Although the book is written from a sociological perspective, the combination of theory and practical insights make it accessible to a wide variety of readers. It aims to generate discussion and deepen understanding of an area into which there has been minimal research in Ireland and which poses a range of important questions for future researchers, practitioners and policy-makers.Trade Review«This informative and timely book is an essential sociological study based an the experiences of fourteen women who have been through marital separation in contemporary lreland. lt is a must for all couple's counsellors, relationship and family therapists and anyone interested in how patterns, roles and expectations in marriage are changing.» (Pauline Macey, Eisteach. The lrish Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy 16/3 2016)Table of ContentsContents: Childhood – Identity Formation in Young Adulthood – Experiences during Marriage: Practical Aspects – Experiences during Marriage: Relational and Emotional Aspects – Events and Feelings at the Time of Separation – Legal, Financial and Housing Arrangements – Relationships following Separation – Identity and Resilience Post-Separation – Experiences of Formal Support.

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Book SynopsisWinner of the British Sociological Association Philip Abrams Memorial Prize 2017 This book is a case study of an African-Caribbean-founded football club, Meadebrook Cavaliers, from the English East Midlands. Covering the years 1970 to 2010, it seeks to address the paucity of research on the British African-Caribbean male experience in leisure and sport as well as on the relationship between «race» and local-level football. The development of the club was intimately connected to wider changes in the social and sporting terrain. Based on a mix of archival and ethnographic research, the book examines the club’s growth over four decades, exploring the attitudes, social realities and identity politics of its African-Caribbean membership and the varying demands and expectations of the wider black community. In doing so, it shows how studies of minority ethnic and local football clubs can shed light on the changing social identities and cultural dynamics of the communities that constitute them.Table of ContentsContents: Combining history and sociology to write «black» sport – Immigration in Britain: Leicester and the first-generation of African-Caribbeans c.1900-1968 – Finding their feet: Grassroots football, Meadebrook Cavaliers and the second-generation black experience in Leicester – From parks team to football club: Social policy, generational change and grassroots football in Leicester – Re-inventing Cavaliers: Recession, modernisation and processes of «respectability» – Questions of «resistance» in local football in Leicester – «Real» solutions for «real» problems? Community development, cultural cohesion and local football.

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Book SynopsisThis interdisciplinary book brings an empirical evidence that social capital is an important building block in the reintegration processes, migration challenges and economic dynamism of the SEE communities. Such a conclusion opposes the common belief that (re)establishing social relations in a post-ethnic conflict environment is difficult, or sometimes even impossible. These are indeed societies where trust in people and institutions remains low, but it is often replaced with other forms of social capital emerging on a daily basis, within and between different population strata, either formally but often informally. Most people who know the region are aware that formal and state institutions in South-East Europe enjoy very low levels of trust. Nearly everybody loves to point to ethnicity as the causal factor behind every difficulty. The authors of this groundbreaking study explore two basic questions: how do people meet their needs and the needs of others when official institutions do not function? And how do members of different ethnic groups experience the role of others and cross symbolic boundaries? The answers, constructed out of empirical evidence using a variety of methods, point to the crucial importance of social capital as an everyday resource, and to the essential role of ethnic, national, and religious diversity in enhancing people's life chances in an unstable environment. Eric Gordy, Professor of Cultural and Political Sociology, University College London Since Mark Granovetter many of us know that both over-socialised (macro) level, and under-socialised (narrowly individualist) representations of social world may lead to counter-effective policies. We need to focus on the meso level, where social cooperation is the most real and the most productive. That leads us to the concept of social capital. This is something the authors of this book understand very well. Moreover, applying it, they are able to shed light on human behaviour in the context of the two key phenomena of present day Europe: migration and capacity for self-help during the crises. Great research questions and contribution. Tomasz Mickiewicz, Professor at Aston University and Honorary Research Fellow at University College LondonTable of ContentsAdnan Efendic, Bojana Babic and Anna Rebmann: Introduction to Social Capital Specifics of the SEE Region – Bojana Babic, Adnan Efendic and Anna Rebmann: Social Capital, Migration, Ethnic Diversity and Economic Performance in the Literature – Adnan Efendic: Social Capital in Periods of Crisis and Normality – Empirical Investigation from Bosnia and Herzegovina – Bojana Babic: Social Capital and Migration – A Qualitative Investigation from the SEE Region – Bojana Babic: Social Capital and Ethnic Diversity – A Qualitative Investigation from the SEE Region – Adnan Efendic: Ethnic Diversity and Economic Performance of Individuals and Households in a Postconflict Environment – Evidence from Bosnia and Herzegovina – Adnan Efendic, Bojana Babic and Anna Rebmann: Rebuilding SEE Region Through Different Forms of Social Capital

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Book SynopsisThe 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 two types of sources: 14 census-like nominal population listings for 126 parishes of the Zurich countryside, complemented by 52 parishes of adjacent areas, and four reconstituted communities with very early parish books. This allowed coming up with detailed population structures by year of age, sex and marital status for the year 1634, with regional variations. Full, detailed mortality tables by sex and for all ages could be calculated for the period 1634–37, by far the earliest mortality tables worldwide. Mortality during plague epidemics was analysed in detail, too, resulting in the first and only plague mortality table. Model life tables are presented as well, showing a pattern that differs strongly from what has been assumed so far. New insights could also be gained about premarital sex and the importance of remarriages.Table of ContentsIntroduction – Demographic Sources – Births, Marriages, and Deaths – The Population and its Development – Population Structures – Mortality – Population Crises – Longevity and Long-term Developments – Marital Status and Marriage Behavior – Fertility – Conclusions and Outlook

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Book SynopsisOnly in France is demography essentially the population science: it is taught at school, newspapers feature the evolution of fertility rates in their headlines and the subject sparks ideological debates in the media. How did demography become a national identity issue? The French exception is attributable to a political history that reached fulcrums during the Second World War under the racist Vichy regime and then after the Liberation, with the development of population policies and the creation of the French National Institute for Demographic Studies (INED). The book is the first to retrace its controversial genesis and analyze its ramifications for the following decades. It shows how theories, institutions and demographic policies developed simultaneously in France. Its reflection on the links between ideologies, science and the state offers a model that could be applied to the history of many other scientific disciplines. Paul-André Rosental’s indispensable study examines the emergence of demography as an autonomous discipline and its association with the state in mid-twentieth-century France. Demography’s success in the immediate post-war years came in part from its dual concern with both "science" and "action," which allowed policy makers to claim both knowledge and expertise in addressing social problems. Rosental’s measured tone hides a provocative argument that should serve as both a model and a foil for others working in the history of the human sciences. Joshua Cole, University of Michigan. Table of ContentsPreface by Philip Nord * Chapter 1: Glory or contingencies: the 1939 High Committee and the establishment of a body for population * Chapter 2: The "Phony War" and demographic police * Chapter 3: The Vichy regime, biology and moralism * Chapter 4: Population and political construction of a new society: the government of Algiers and Liberation * Chapter 5: Demographic pressure and institutional creations: The hunt for "good migrants" * Chapter 6: An Institute for Alfred Sauvy? * Chapter 7: The Creation of a National Institute of Demography * Chapter 8: The first research world * Chapter 9 The Second Birth of Demography. A Transatlantic History * Chapter 10: The Novelty of an Old Genre. Louis Henry and the Founding of Historical Demography *

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Book Synopsis War Hecatomb. International Effects on Public Health, Demography and Mentalities in the 20th Century, offers new insights on the impact of wars (namely, but not exclusively, World War I), by underlining its social and psychological consequences, particularly in public health, demography, and mentalities in different countries. Therefore, it is not just another book on World Wars, since it does not focus primarily on political, diplomatic, military or economic aspects. Instead, the work offers a brand new approach on these wars’ consequences, and especially on the civilizational significance of the Great War of 1914-1918. This original view over societies coping with the aftermath of the two world wars reveals how states and different agents were compelled to act and to face the new post-war reality, bringing to light an innovative social agenda while simultaneously trying to cope with the overwhelming phenomenon of physically and mentally scarred multitudes of veterans and their families. The book focuses on the consequences of conflicts in different perspectives and geographic locations. In twelve chapters, several aspects and effects of wars are analysed through different lens. Table of ContentsHistoriography – demography – history of health – mentalities – World War I

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Book SynopsisA travers le cas de la paroisse de Corsier-sur-Vevey en Suisse, ce livre analyse la transition entre Ancien Régime et Suisse moderne telle qu'elle se reflète dans les choix de partenaires sociaux, en mettant l'accent sur les mariages, les parrainages et les transactions économiques. Fondée sur une large base de données généalogique, l'analyse démontre, par des statistiques et des visualisations de réseaux, que les décisions changent, à la fois dans la parenté et la proximité spatiale.Un double mouvement s'observe, avec, en matière de proximité de parenté et de proximité spatiale, à la fois des distances plus courtes et des distances plus éloignées entre le 18e et le 19e siècle.

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Book SynopsisUrban development for all Mischung: Possible! offers basic knowledge on mixed-use planning based on a case study of an urban development project. The book draws on a four-year experimental study of sustainable mixed-use inner-city district development at the site of the former Nordbahnhof railway station, one of Vienna’s largest development areas. The mixed-use scenarios include mobility, care work, zero emissions, the sharing economy, creative clusters, “fair business,” networked services, and urban manufacturing. The goals are to deliver both collective and individual added value for users and to develop innovative buildings in an “urban base” for a long-term mixture of uses. This showcases best practice in sustainable urban planning. A reference work for district developers Best practice for urban mixed-use development Study conducted by the Technical University Vienna with several well-known partners

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Book SynopsisWhat comes to people's minds when they think of security? Is there a relationship between global security threats and local, everyday events that influence our feeling of security? Drawing from telephone interviews of 1'000 Swiss citizens, this work attempts to provide a missing link between the spheres of personal and public security. Based on empirical data and using quantitative statistical methods such as correspondence analysis and logistic regression, security is conceived through the statements of common citizens. What emerges is a fascinating portrait of the different notions of security in contemporary Switzerland.

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Book SynopsisCet ouvrage réunit une série de contributions qui portent sur les familles de la France, de la Suisse et du Canada français. Il souhaite renouveler un courant historiographique important, consacré à la reproduction des sociétés rurales par l'analyse des interactions existant entre pratiques migratoires et marchés. Par des approches recourant aussi bien aux sources de l'histoire sociale et économique qu'à celles de la démographie historique, les auteurs approfondissent les formes de gestion de la migration dans les sociétés du passé par rapport aux modes d'insertion dans les marchés. Les répercussions de la mobilité sur les stratégies de rapprochement et d'ajustement aux marchés du travail et de la terre sont au cœur de leur problématique. Par ailleurs, ils s'intéressent à l'impact de ces marchés sur les mécanismes de la reproduction familiale et sociétale ainsi qu'à l'articulation des migrations au sein des familles qui doivent faire face aux défis des marchés.

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Book SynopsisAge is a complex cross-cutting notion for at least two reasons: the intricate interweaving of its biological and socio-cultural meanings and its dual significance as both a benchmark in an individual's life course and a foundation for social structure. This book offers new perspectives on age and ageing by combining achievements in the biological sciences and their different applications and interpretations in demography, anthropology, psychology and other pertinent disciplines. Thirty contributors from these various fields revisit the measures and the biological models of ageing, the borderline between normal and pathological ageing, the pertinence of chronological age as a benchmark along the life course, its interrelations with psychological development, with reproductive phases and other life events, the normalizing role ascribed by age classes and the risk of falling into ageism, the cross-cultural diversity and temporal changes of its meanings, the gender divide (real and perceived), as well as the rights that should be enjoyed at each age.

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Book SynopsisDie Migration aus Spanien in die Schweiz begann in den 1960er Jahren mehrheitlich als Gastarbeitermigration. Später wanderten Spanierinnen und Spanier unter gänzlich anderen Voraussetzungen ein. Am Beispiel der Eingewanderten, die heute noch in der Schweiz leben, untersucht die Autorin die Sichtweise der Betroffenen als Ergänzung zu offiziellen Definitionen des Integrationsbegriffes, wie Politik und Wissenschaft sie darstellen. Was verstehen Migrierte unter Integration und wie unterscheiden sich diese Definitionen? Inwiefern beeinflussen diese Definitionen ihren Alltag? Wie schätzen Migrierte die eigene Integration ein und wie bewerten sie diese? Auf der Grundlage von zahlreichen Interviews schält diese Studie unterschiedliche Kontexte für die einzelnen Migrierten heraus. Sie unternimmt den Versuch, anhand einer differenzierten Betrachtungsweise den spezifischen Situationen der einzelnen Migrierten gerecht zu werden.

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Book SynopsisThis book is a contemporary sociological account of the lives of older people in two different communities in Ireland, one urban and one rural. The book is based on primary research that examined the social and community participation of older people in Rathmore and Rathbeg using both ethnographic and survey approaches. The data presented provides insights into the nature of a community in a rapidly changing society and into older people’s contributions to that community. It points to realms of activity that offer genuine meaning and value in older people’s lives. A model of connectedness is developed in the study that identifies key characteristics and processes involved in sociability and solidarity within neighbourhoods and communities. A typology of ten relational patterns describes the different ways in which older adults may be connected within their communities. The author proposes an explanatory framework for understanding the complex and varied connections between people in communities. The book also demonstrates what older people in Ireland perceive as a good life.Trade Review«Students of Irish culture and society and of older people in Europe will find this book indispensable for developing an understanding of the ageing process in modern-day Ireland.» (Simon Roberts, Ageing & Society)Table of ContentsContents: Living in Rathmore and Rathbeg: An Introduction – Context of Ageing and Old Age in Ireland – Ageing and Social Policies in Ireland – Leisure and Social Activities – The Meaning of Place and Significant Communal Settings – Helping, Volunteering and Religious Practice – Relationships with Family, Friends and Neighbours – Explaining Connectedness in Rathmore and Rathbeg – Community and Friendship – Ageing and Community in Rathmore and Rathbeg: Summary and Conclusions.

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Book SynopsisThe author focuses on how development-oriented non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and microfinance institutions (MFIs) are suited to the dual development process of improving the wellbeing and empowerment of the poor and other marginalized peoples (especially women) in Africa and other developing countries, focusing on Uganda. NGOs and MFIs are seen as a third approach (i.e. an alternative to state or market strategies) to achieving sustainable development and poverty reduction. The author discusses the following central issues: rethinking development strategies in Africa as a result of the failure of the state or market to deliver economic growth and poverty reduction, and the rise of the NGO sector to fill the vacuum; clarification of the on-going confusion between MFI performance and impact assessment; the inadequacy of economic reforms in Uganda to benefit the rural agricultural producers; NGOs and MFIs in Uganda as part of the development strategy and their potential to spur development; the commercialization of MFIs and its implications; lessons from successful MFIs in Uganda and globally; and an analysis of how NGOs and MFIs working together with the public and private sectors (in a triple partnership) can achieve sustainable development and poverty reduction in Uganda and other African countries.Trade Review«[…] a thoughtful study sure to provoke debate.» (Professor Gay Seidman, University of Wisconsin-Madison) «This is a book for everyone – academics and policy practitioners alike – who take an interest in […] the next generation of development strategies in Africa […]» (Distinguished Professor Emeritus Goran Hyden, University of Florida) «The book is a must read not only for academics and students working in the field but also for policy makers, aid workers, and business leaders who seek to bring about a positive impact not just for their organizations but for the people affected by their actions.» (Julia Büchele, African Studies Quarterly 13, 2013/4) «This book represents a thoughtful study of Africa’s past, its present development and provokes useful debates on the future paradigms and models for an appropriate and sustainable development of the so-called Dark Continent. The book is, therefore, very useful for academics, professionals, development activists and policy makers taking little or deeper interest in the future of Africa’s development. Even microfinance practitioners can have an overview of how the industry is faring in the continent. For the AU and NEPAD, the book comes as an additional impetus to their efforts of promoting African-led development. Students of African studies will find this book quite rewarding.» (Roland Azibo Balgah, Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture 52, 2013/1)Table of ContentsContents: Rethinking Development Strategies in Africa – Economic Reforms and Development Efforts in Uganda since 1986 to Present – NGOs and MFIs in Uganda: A Grassroots Approach to Development – Microfinance Institutions: Performance and Impact Assessment Reconsidered – Commercialization of MFIs and Sustainability: Positive and Negative Implications – What Works and Why? Lessons from Successful MFIs in Uganda and Globally – The Future of Microfinance and the Need for a Triple Partnership among Public, Private and NGO Sectors to Achieve Sustainable Development.

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