Migration, Population Structure, and Redistribution Policies

by Calvin Goldscheider (Editor)

Overview

This book analyses the links between migration and the composition, structure, and geographic distribution of populations. It discusses the evolution of population redistribution policies in Brazil, and examines internal migration between the 1930s and the 1980s.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780429715563
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/08/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	352
File size:	10 MB

About the Author

Goldscheider, Calvin

Table of Contents

Foreword -- Internal Migration-Types, Stratification and Assimilation -- Metropolitan Migration in Developed Countries: A Cross-National Data Base -- Migration and Job Mobility: Some Contemporary Lessons from Sidney Goldstein’s Patterns of Mobility -- Circulation as a Drought-coping Strategy in Rural Mali -- Town Residents and Rural-Town Migration in Inner Mongolia, People’s Republic of China -- Ethnic Inequality and Social Structural Assimilation: The Xinjiang Autonomous Region of China -- International Migration and Redistribution Policies -- Circular Mobility, Migrant Communities, and Policy Restrictions: Unauthorized Flows from Mexico -- Sudanese Emigration to Saudi Arabia: Partial Modernization and Development Bureaucratization -- Challenges Confronting South Africa’s Separate Development: The Legacy of Segregation and Displaced Urbanization -- Population Redistribution and State Policies: A Brazilian Perspective -- International Migration: Issues and Research Needs -- Population Composition and Structure -- The Demographic Development of the Soviet Nationalities: Post Mortem -- A Regional Shift in Population: Explaining Post-World War II Trends and Projections Influencing the Industrial Belt of the U. S -- Population Aging in Japan -- Contributors *

Editorial Reviews

Examines migration patterns and their implications for population policy and structure, as presented in the broad context of population and development in more- and less-developed societies. Implications of both internal and international migration patterns for the overall structure of populations are covered in analyses of the demographic development of Soviet nationalities, community responses to deindustrialization in the US, and population aging in Japan. No index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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