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A Multidisciplinary Approach to Capability in Age and Ageing

This book provides insight on how to interpret capability in ageing – one’s individual ability to perform actions in ...

Applied Demography in the 21st Century : Selected Papers from the Biennial Conference on Applied Demography, San Antonio, Texas, January 7–9, 2007

The work contains chapters on several major topical areas that are central to applied demography including works on data ...

Aquaculture Perspective of Multi-Use Sites in the Open Ocean

This volume addresses the potential for combining large-scale marine aquaculture of macroalgae, molluscs, crustaceans, and ...

Childlessness in Europe: Contexts, Causes, and Consequences

This open access book provides an overview of childlessness throughout Europe. It offers a collection of papers written ...

Circular Migration and the Rights of Migrant Workers in Central and Eastern Europe The EU Promise of a Triple Win Solution

This book adopts a rights-based approach to shed light on the different legal and policy instruments that have been developed ...

Constructing Roma Migrants : European Narratives and Local Governance

This book presents a cross-disciplinary insight and policy analysis into the effects of European legal and political frameworks ...

Demographic Change and Intergenerational Justice : The Implementation of Long-Term Thinking in the Political Decision Making Process

The book deals with the complex relationship between intergenerational justice and demographic change and is characterized ...

Divorce in Europe New Insights in Trends, Causes and Consequences of Relation Break-ups

This book collects the major discussions in divorce research in Europe. It starts with an understanding of divorce trends. ...

Highly-Skilled Migration: Between Settlement and Mobility IMISCOE Short Reader

This book discusses the emerging patterns of sedentary migration versus mobility of the highly-skilled thereby providing ...

How Long Do We Live? : Demographic Models and Reflections on Tempo Effects

The book reviews the debate on how best to measure period longevity. In the various chapters, leading experts in demography ...

Migrants and Expats: The Swiss Migration and Mobility Nexus

This book provides insight on current patterns of migration in Switzerland, which fall along a continuum from long-term and ...

Migrants with Irregular Status in Europe Evolving Conceptual and Policy Challenges

This book explores the conceptual challenges posed by the presence of migrants with irregular immigration status in Europe ...

Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers’ Integration in European Labour Markets A Comparative Approach on Legal Barriers and Enablers

This book discusses how, and to what extent, the legal and institutional regimes and the socio-cultural environments of a ...

Migration to and from Welfare States Lived Experiences of the Welfare–Migration Nexus in a Globalised World

This book explores the role of family, public, market and third sector welfare provision for individual and households’ ...

New and Old Routes of Portuguese Emigration

This book offers a comparative overview on Portuguese emigration in Europe and outside the EU in times of recession. In ...

Old and New Perspectives on Mortality Forecasting

This book describes methods of mortality forecasting and discusses possible improvements. It contains a selection of previously ...

Parental Life Courses after Separation and Divorce in Europe

This book assembles landmark studies on divorce and separation in European countries, and how this affects the life of parents ...

Revisiting Migrant Networks : Migrants and their Descendants in Labour Markets

This book provides new conceptualisations on the networks of migrants and their descendants in accessing the labour market. ...

Social Background and the Demographic Life Course: Cross-National Comparisons

This book examines how childhood social disadvantage influences young-adult demographic decision-making and later-life economic ...

Social Statistics and Ethnic Diversity : Cross-National Perspectives in Classifications and Identity Politics

This open access book examines the question of collecting and disseminating data on ethnicity and race in order to describe ...

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