Population & Demography

For many decades and for many reasons, people who are homeless have chosen to live in camps or other makeshift settings, even when shelters are ava...

The last few decades have seen an increase in the migration of ageing people from richer Northern and Western countries to poorer Southern and East...

Planning and Design for Sustainable Urban Mobility argues that the development of sustainable urban transport systems requires a conceptual leap. T...

Here is the full report of the 1970 National Fertility Study, a national sample survey for which thousands of women were interviewed who had been m...

This timely collection of 15 original essays written by expert scientists the world over addresses the relationships between human population growt...

Embodied Politics illuminates the influential force of public health promotion in indigenous migrant communities by examining the Indigenous Health...

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Embodied Politics illuminates the influential force of public health promotion in indigenous migrant communities by examining the Indigenous Health...

'Why are you making this about race?' This question is repeated daily in public and in the media. Calling someone racist in these times of mounting...

The histories in Twin Cities Sports are rooted in the class, ethnic, and regional identity of this unique upper midwestern metropolitan area. The c...

Figuring the Population Bomb traces the genealogy of twentieth-century demographic facts that created a mathematical panic about a looming populati...

This publication presents the levels and trends in mortality from 1970 to 2015 drawn from the World Population Prospects. It highlights variations ...

The report presents findings from the 2018 revision of World Urbanization Prospects, which contains the latest estimates of the urban and rural pop...

The main purpose of this publication is to provide the producers of population and housing censuses with guidance on the use of registers and admin...

On an otherwise ordinary Sunday morning in 1964, millions of Roman Catholics around the world experienced history. For the first time in centuries,...

The data booklet presents key mortality indicators at the national, regional, and global level during 1950-2030. It highlights variations among cou...

The United Nations population estimates and projections form a comprehensive set of demographic data to assess population trends at the global, reg...

This book is about places - cities, suburbs and towns - and happiness of people living there. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Okulicz-Kozaryn...

Although migration and integration have become important concepts today as a result of globalization, migration movements, integration, and multicu...

Debating Immigration presents twenty-one original and updated essays, written by some of the world's leading experts and pre-eminent scholars that ...

Hip-Hop and Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline was created for K12 students in hopes that they find tangible strategies for creating affirmi...

Thomas Robert Malthus (17661834) was a pioneer in demography, economics and social science more generally whose ideas prompted a new 'Malthusian' w...

Why do American couples differ in the number of children they have? To answer this question the first major longitudinal study in American fertilit...