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  • Applying Respondent Driven Sampling to Migrant Populations

    Lessons from the Field

    by G. Tyldum, L. Johnston ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book gives a thorough introduction to the theoretical and practical aspects of planning, conducting and analysing data from Respondent Driven Sampling surveys, drawing on the experiences of experts in the field as well as pioneers that have applied Respondent Driven Sampling methodology to migrant populations. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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    by Khalid Koser ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Why has international migration become an issue of such intense public and political concern? How closely linked are migrants with terrorist organizations? What factors lie behind the dramatic increase in the number of women migrating? This Very Short Introduction looks at the phenomenon of international human migration -- both legal and illegal -- to reveal that migration actually presents ... Read more

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  • Movers and Stayers: Social Mobility, Migration and Skills

    by Izabela Grabowska ...
    Series Book 3 - Migration – Ethnicity – Nation: Studies in Culture, Society and Politics
    The author examines social mobility in the enlarged EU by analysing the work sequences of 1865 movers and stayers in Poland. Using indicators of upward and downward social mobility, she explores the role of migration in careers. Her research shows that migration adds dynamism to work paths and contributes to the improvement of people’s working lives. It also suggests that agency and reflexivity ... Read more

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  • Mixed Methods Research in Poverty and Vulnerability

    Sharing Ideas and Learning Lessons

    Edited by Keetie Roelen, Laura Camfield ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The added value of mixed methods research in poverty and vulnerability is now widely established. Nevertheless, gaps and challenges remain. This volume shares experiences from research in developed and developing country contexts on how mixed methods approaches can make research more credible, usable and responsive to complexity. ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • The Uprooted

    Improving Humanitarian Responses to Forced Migration

    by Susan F. Martin, Patricia Weiss Fagen, Kari M. Jorgensen, Andrew Schoenholtz, Lydia Mann-Bondat ...
    Series series Program in Migration and Refugee Studies
    By conservative estimates about 50 million migrants are currently living outside of their home communities, forced to flee to obtain some measure of safety and security. In addition to persecution, human rights violations, repression, conflict, and natural and human-made disasters, current causes of forced migration include environmental and development-induced factors. Today's migrants include ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Achieving Social Impact

    Sociology in the Public Sphere

    by Marta Soler Gallart ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book presents the findings of research projects conducted by CREA (Community of Researchers on Excellence for all), a research community based in Barcelona, showing how social transformation combines scientific excellence with the political and social impact of the research. Analyzing the impact of pursuing social sciences research by providing examples of achievements and opportunities ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Cultures of Wellbeing

    Method, Place, Policy

    Edited by Sarah White, Chloe Blackmore ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The authors challenge psychological perspectives on happiness and subjective wellbeing. Highlighting the politics of quantitative and qualitative methodologies, case studies across continents explore wellbeing in relation to health, children and youth, migration, economics, religion, family, land mines, national surveys, and indigenous identities. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Agent-Based Modelling in Population Studies

    Concepts, Methods, and Applications

    Edited by André Grow, Jan Van Bavel ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book examines the use of agent-based modelling (ABM) in population studies, from concepts to applications, best practices to future developments. It features papers written by leading experts in the field that will help readers to better understand the usefulness of ABM for population projections, how ABM can be injected with empirical data to achieve a better match between model and reality, ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • The Demography of Europe

    Edited by Gerda Neyer, Gunnar Andersson, Hill Kulu, Laura Bernardi, Christoph Bühler ...
    Over the past decades Europe has witnessed fundamental changes of its population dynamics and population structure. Fertility has fallen below replacement level in almost all European countries, while childbearing behavior and family formation have become more diverse. Life expectancy has increased in Western Europe for both females and males, but has been declining for men in some Eastern ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Concepts, Methods and Practical Applications in Applied Demography

    An Introductory Textbook

    by Richard K. Thomas ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This textbook offers a comprehensive overview of applied demography by presenting both basic concepts and methodological techniques. It allows students from the social and human sciences, demographers, consultants and anyone interested in applied demography to gain an understanding of a wide range of practical applications of demographic concepts, methods and techniques to real- world problems. ... Read more

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  • Population Studies and Development from Theory to Fieldwork

    Edited by Véronique Petit ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book addresses major population and development issues: fertility and reproductive health, migrations, gender, education, poverty and inequalities. To that aim it revisits and considerably enlarges Kingsley Davis’ 1963 theory of change and response, using interdisciplinary methodologies. On the basis of four decades of field research (1985-2015), it questions the rationality of the actors, ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Diaspora, Food and Identity

    Nigerian Migrants in Belgium

    by Antonella Campanini, Peter Scholliers, Jean-Pierre Williot, Maureen Duru ...
    Series Book 9 - L’Europe alimentaire / European Food Issues / Europa alimentaria / L’Europa alimentare
    This book examines the connection between food and identity in the Nigerian diaspora community in Belgium. Encounters between people from different cultures do not lead to a simple adaptation of the diet, but usually give rise to some kind of fusion of new and indigenous food habits.The author questions the relationship between what Nigerian migrants in the diaspora eat, their self-perception and ... Read more

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