[PDF] Migration And Mortality eBook

Author : Paolo Cuttitta
Publisher :
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 47,91 MB
Release : 2019-12-12
Category :
ISBN : 9789463722322

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Border deaths are a result of dynamics involving diverse actors, and can be interpreted and represented in various ways. Critical voices from civil society (including academia) hold states responsible for making safe journeys impossible for large parts of the world population. Meanwhile, policy-makers argue that border deaths demonstrate the need for restrictive border policies. Statistics are widely (mis)used to support different readings of border deaths. However, the way data is collected, analysed, and disseminated remains largely unquestioned. Similarly, little is known about how bodies are treated, and about the different ways in which the dead - also including the missing and the unidentified - are mourned by familiars and strangers. New concepts and perspectives contribute to highlighting the political nature of border deaths and finding ways to move forward. The chapters of this collection, co-authored by researchers and practitioners, provide the first interdisciplinary overview of this contested field.

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 16,95 MB
Release : 1998-07-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0309173892

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Because forced migration situations are often physically dangerous and politically complicated, estimates of these populations are often difficult to make. Estimates of forced migration vary, but it is probable that there are about 23 million refugees and more than 30 million internally displaced people.In order to assist specific groups of forced migrants and also to better understand the general plight of forced migrants, good demographic data are needed. However, collecting data on forced migration presents tremendous challenges for normal data collection processes and standards.To explore a range of issues about internally displaced persons and refugees, the Committee on Population of the National Research Council organized a Workshop on the Demography of Forced Migration in Washington, D.C., in November 1997. The purpose of the workshop was to investigate the ways in which population and other social scientists can produce more useful demographic information about forced migrant populations and how they differ. This report summarizes the background papers prepared for the meeting, the presentations, and the general discussion.

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 48,8 MB
Release : 2001-04-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0309171083

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In recent years the number of complex humanitarian emergencies around the world has been steadily increasing. War and political, ethnic, racial, and religious strife continually force people to migrate against their will. These forced migrants create a stream of new challenges for relief workers and policy makers. A better understanding of the characteristics of refugee populations and of the population dynamics of these situations is vital. Improved research and insights can enhance disaster management, refugee camp administration, and repatriation or resettlement programs. Forced Migration and Mortality examines mortality patterns in complex human- itarian emergencies, reviewing the state of knowledge, as well as how patterns may change in the new century. It contains four case studies of mortality in recent emergencies: Rwanda, North Korea, Kosovo, and Cambodia. Because refugees and internally displaced persons are likely to continue to be a significant humanitarian concern for many years, research in this field is critical. This is the first book to comprehensively explore forced migration and mortality and it provides useful material for researchers, policy makers, and relief workers.

Author : Philip D. Curtin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 20,43 MB
Release : 1989-11-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521389228

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This book is a quantitative study of relocation costs among European soldiers in the tropics from 1815 to 1914.

Author : Jamie Longazel
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 16,62 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Central America
ISBN : 9781439919798

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"This book uses theories of social death and the construction of lives as disposable across legal, public health, criminal, carceral, media, labor, and medical arenas to examine the fatal stakes of migration policy and practice for migrants crossing the U.S. southern border"--

Author : Roundtable on the Demography of Forced Migration
Publisher :
Page : 1224 pages
File Size : 17,94 MB
Release : 2001-04-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN :

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Includes statistics.

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 24,71 MB
Release : 1999-11-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0309065453

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Immigrant children and youth are the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. population, and so their prospects bear heavily on the well-being of the country. Children of Immigrants represents some of the very best and most extensive research efforts to date on the circumstances, health, and development of children in immigrant families and the delivery of health and social services to these children and their families. This book presents new, detailed analyses of more than a dozen existing datasets that constitute a large share of the national system for monitoring the health and well-being of the U.S. population. Prior to these new analyses, few of these datasets had been used to assess the circumstances of children in immigrant families. The analyses enormously expand the available knowledge about the physical and mental health status and risk behaviors, educational experiences and outcomes, and socioeconomic and demographic circumstances of first- and second-generation immigrant children, compared with children with U.S.-born parents.

Author : Ralph Shlomowitz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 39,79 MB
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN :

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This is a collection of previously published essays on the mortality suffered by British convicts and free emigrants on the voyage to Australia, and by Indian, Chinese, African, and Pacific Islander indentured labourers on their voyages to a variety of destinations across the world. The success of various administrative measures in reducing mortality at sea during the 19th century is documented, and shown to have a bearing on current debates on the explanation of the 19th-century mortality decline in western societies.

Author : Wilhelm Kirch
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1611 pages
File Size : 43,89 MB
Release : 2008-06-13
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1402056133

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The Encyclopedic Reference of Public Health presents the most important definitions, principles and general perspectives of public health, written by experts of the different fields. The work includes more than 2,500 alphabetical entries. Entries comprise review-style articles, detailed essays and short definitions. Numerous figures and tables enhance understanding of this little-understood topic. Solidly structured and inclusive, this two-volume reference is an invaluable tool for clinical scientists and practitioners in academia, health care and industry, as well as students, teachers and interested laypersons.

Author : Frank Trovato
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 17,36 MB
Release : 2017-11-24
Category : Immigrants
ISBN : 1785365975

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Publications in this field have, in general, been based predominantly on the experiences of individual national settings. Migration, Health and Survival offers a comparative approach, bringing together leading international scholars to provide original works from the United States, Canada, Australia, France, Germany, England and Wales, Norway, Belgium and Italy.