Development Studies: Population & Development

Edited by Heather Xiaoquan Zhang

In recent decades, China has undergone rapid economic growth, industrialisation and urbanisation concomitant with deep and extensive structural and social change, profoundly reshaping the country’s development landscape and urban-rural relationships. This book applies livelihoods approaches to…

Paperback – 2017-11-15
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Routledge Explorations in Development Studies

By Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh

This ground-breaking book is one of the first to analyse the important phenomenon of South-South educational migration for refugees. It focuses particularly on South-South scholarship programmes in Cuba and Libya, which have granted free education to children, adolescents and young adults from two…

Paperback – 2017-11-14
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Routledge Studies in Development, Mobilities and Migration

Edited by Yuk Wah Chan, Sin Yee Koh

With the rapid economic development of China and the overall shift in the global political economy, there is now the emergence of new Chinese on the move. These new Chinese migrants and diasporas are pioneers in the establishment of multiple homes in new geographical locations, the development of…

Hardback – 2017-11-09
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Routledge Series on Asian Migration

Edited by Carl Middleton, Rebecca Elmhirst, Supang Chantavanich

This book contributes to a better understanding of the relationship between migration, vulnerability, resilience and social justice associated with flooding across diverse environmental, social and policy contexts in Southeast Asia. It challenges simple analyses of flooding as a singular driver of…

Hardback – 2017-11-02
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Routledge Studies in Development, Mobilities and Migration

Edited by Gustavo de L. T. Oliveira, Susanna B. Hecht

Soy in South America constitutes one of the most spectacular booms of agro-industrial commodity production in the world. It is the pinnacle of modernist agro-industrial practices, serving as a key nexus in food–feed–fuel production that underpins the agribusiness–conservationist discourse of "land…

Hardback – 2017-10-24
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Critical Agrarian Studies

By Katharine Charsley

Since restrictions on commonwealth labour immigration to Britain in the 1960s, marriage has been the dominant form of migration between Pakistan and the UK. Most transnational Pakistani marriages are between cousins or other more distant relatives, lending a particular texture to this transnational…

Paperback – 2017-10-23
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Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian Studies Series

By Andrew Foxall

While the collapse of communism in Russia was relatively peaceful, ethnic relations have been deteriorating since then. This deterioration poses a threat to the functioning of the Russian state and is a major obstacle to its future development. Analysing ethnic relations in the North Caucasus, this…

Paperback – 2017-10-12
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BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

By Olga Gurova

This book explores how clothing consumption has changed in Russia in the past 20 years as capitalism has grown in a postsocialist state, bringing with it a "consumer revolution." It shows how there has been and continues to be a massive change in the fashion retail market and how ideal…

Paperback – 2017-10-12
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Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series

Edited by Brian Pratt, Rachel Hayman

This publication focuses on the challenges faced by civil society to remain sustainable in response to major changes in the global political, economic and social environment. Academics and practitioners from all over the world have contributed original articles, practical notes and viewpoints which…

Hardback – 2017-10-10
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By Serena Cosgrove, Benjamin Curtis

Understanding Global Poverty introduces students to the study and analysis of poverty, helping them to understand why it is pervasive across human societies, and how it can be reduced through proven policy solutions. Using the capabilities and human development approach, the book foregrounds the…

Paperback – 2017-09-15
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Edited by Tony Champion, Thomas Cooke, Ian Shuttleworth

The frequency with which people move home has important implications for national economic performance and the well-being of individuals and families. Much contemporary social and migration theory posits that the world is becoming more mobile, leading to the recent ‘mobilities turn’ within the…

Hardback – 2017-08-24
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International Population Studies

By Monica Costa

A growing number of governments have made commitments to achieving gender equality and women's rights, with many using gender responsive budgeting (GRB) to allocate resources for the delivery of economic policy and governance that benefit men and women equally. At a time when GRB is…

Hardback – 2017-08-15
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Routledge ISS Gender, Sexuality and Development Studies