Population & Development

Throughout the world’s hinterland regions, people are growing old in resource-dependent communities that were neither originally designed nor presently equipped to support an ageing population. This book provides cutting edge theoretical and empirical insights into the new phenomenon resource fronti..

This book explores how migration plays a central role in the renewing and reworking of urban spaces in the rapidly changing cities of Asia. The contributors examine the roles and effects of different forms of migration in the arena of urban change, considering low-skilled domestic migrants, professi..

First published in 1985, this collection of essays deals with processes of population movement and how they have operated over time. It is also about people: Melanesian’s who number some five million and inhabit the region stretching from the Indonesian province of Irian Jaya to the Independent Stat..

Migration is often seen as part of a crisis: a consequence of crisis or a cause of crisis. This book provides fresh perspectives on this routine association. It examines commonly reported examples of ‘crisis-induced migration’ and ‘migration-induced crises’, critically exploring how contemporary mig..

Disability and International Development provides a comprehensive overview of key themes in the field of disability and development, including issues around identity, poverty, disability rights, education, health, livelihoods, disaster recovery, disability policy and practice, and approaches to rese..

This book examines labour migration in China, focusing in particular on the social dimensions, exploring important issues including poverty alleviation, inequality, social insurance, health and education, and the role of NGOs. It considers the impact of changing government policy, which has made soc..

This book reveals how the thoughts and decisions of a powerful few can filter down to a majority whose voices are silenced in the dominant venues of disaster recovery production and representation...

This is the first book to analyze the important phenomenon of South-South development initiatives. It explores the experiences and impacts of Middle Eastern and North African citizen and refugee youth’s participation in this and other South-South scholarship programmes...

Why have Africans not gained a more dominant position in manufacturing? Vandenberg explores this question through an analysis of the institutions, both formal and informal, that have affected patterns of capital accumulation in Kenya...