Population and Society is an undergraduate introduction to population that explains the latest shifts in population studies. The text provides a detailed and completely accessible overview that: - situates demographic aspects of population - births, deaths, migration, disease - within the context of[...]
An introduction to population that explains the shifts in population studies. The text provides an overview that situates demographic aspects of population within the context of broader social impacts; uses examples from the developed and developing world; and is illustrated with pedagogic features,[...]
Is Britain really under threat from ethnic diversity? Is the social fabric crumbling as we sleepwalk to segregation? In the context of renewed debates about diversity and cohesion, this book interrogates contemporary claims about race and migration. It demonstrates that many of the claims are myths,[...]