Population Geography Books

New and Published Books

1. The Global Health Care Chain

   From the Pacific to the World

   By John Connell

   Series: Routledge Research in Population and Migration

   For more than a quarter of a century there has been significant international migration of skilled health workers, but in the last decades, with critical changes in both sending and receiving countries, few parts of the world are now unaffected by the consequences of the migration of health workers...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. Reworking the Relationship between Asylum and Employment

   By Penelope Mathew

   Touching on the laws and practices of a wide array of countries around the globe, this book examines the extent to which refugees and asylum-seekers’ right to work is protected by international human rights law. The book examines a number of key international treaties, national constitutions and...

   Published May 2nd 2012 by Routledge
3. Migrating Music

   Edited by Jason Toynbee, Byron Dueck

   Series: CRESC

   Migrating Music considers the issues around music and cosmopolitanism in new ways. Whilst much of the existing literature on ‘world music’ questions the apparently world-disclosing nature of this genre – but says relatively little about migration and mobility – diaspora studies have much to say...

   Published April 22nd 2012 by Routledge
4. Population Geography: Progress & Prospect (Routledge Revivals)

   Edited by Michael Pacione

   First published in 1986, this book presents a comprehensive overview of the contemporary state of knowledge in the field of population geography. It discusses the contemporary state of the art and surveys new research developments and new thinking in the major branches of the subject. It thereby...

   Published March 25th 2012 by Routledge
5. Migration in Comparative Perspective

   Caribbean Communities in Britain and France

   By Margaret Byron, Stéphanie Condon

   Series: Routledge Research in Population and Migration

   This book presents a comparative perspective on post-war Caribbean migration to Britain and France. Both migrations were responses to the link between former colonies and colonial powers. However, the movements of labor occurred within separately and differently evolving political contexts,...

   Published February 22nd 2012 by Routledge
6. The International Migration of Health Workers

   Edited by John Connell

   Series: Routledge Research in Population and Migration

   This volume provides the first detailed overview of the growing phenomenon of the international migration of skilled health workers. The contributors focus on who migrates, why they migrate, what the outcomes are for them and their extended families, what their experiences in the workforce are, and...

   Published February 22nd 2012 by Routledge
7. Circulation in Population Movement (Routledge Revivals)

   Substance and concepts from the Melanesian case

   Edited by Murray Chapman, R. Mansell Prothero

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   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...

   Published February 21st 2012 by Routledge
8. Refugees, Recent Migrants and Employment

   Challenging Barriers and Exploring Pathways

   Edited by Sonia McKay

   Series: Routledge Research in Population and Migration

   Upheavals in vast areas of the world have led to a growing number of international refugees, a significant proportion of which have made their way to the West. At the same time, economic and social pressures, together with skills and labour shortages, have encouraged the migration for work of...

   Published August 15th 2011 by Routledge
9. Ageing in East Asia

   Challenges and Policies for the Twenty-First Century

   Edited by Tsung-hsi Fu, Rhidian Hughes

   Series: Comparative Development and Policy in Asia

   Ageing populations present considerable challenges to welfare states internationally, and East Asia is no exception. Demographics show that countries in East Asia either have the highest proportion of older people, or the speed at which their population is ageing is faster than anywhere else in the...

   Published March 15th 2011 by Routledge
10. Circulation in Third World Countries

    Edited by R Mansell Prothero, Murray Chapman

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Development

    Circulation is common in Third World countries and involves reciprocal flows of people, goods and ideas. The essays in this volume, first published in1985, discuss concepts associated with circulation in its various forms, and they present empirical evidence based on field work from holistic,...

    Published November 25th 2010 by Routledge