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Migration and Cities: An Introduction
This chapter introduces the empirical context and analytical framework within which the volume is inscribed. We discuss how urbanisation processes...
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Question of ethnic group formulation in the Chinese census
In conjunction with official government information and existing research literature, this article discusses ethnic group formulation in the censuses...
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The Role of Immigration in Changing the Social Fabric of Australian Cities
Australia’s cities are among the most multi-ethnic in the world. Immigration since the end of the Second World War has had a profound influence in...
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Settlement and Rental Housing Experiences Among Recent Immigrants in the Suburbs of Vancouver: Burnaby, Richmond, and Surrey
The suburbanization of immigrants in Canada is a relatively recent phenomenon, and these suburban settlement experiences and residential patterns are...
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Racial and Temporal Differences in Fertility–Education Trade-Offs Reveal the Effect of Economic Opportunities on Optimum Family Size in the United States
Contemporary trends in low fertility can in part be explained by increasing incentives to invest in offspring’s embodied capital over offspring...
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COVID-19 pandemic indicators and variation with vaccinations in Malaysia: a regional-based geo-visualization and geo-ecological regression study
Our objective was to study the impact of vaccinations on COVID-19 pandemic indicators across different regions of Malaysia. We collected...
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Environmental correlates of mortality: How does air pollution contribute to geographic disparities in cardiovascular disease mortality?
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death in the United States, but CVD mortality rates vary substantially across U.S. counties....
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Structuring Race into the Machine: The Spoiled Promise of Postgenomic Sequencing Technologies
Genetics has been a fruitful area of study for anthropologists of technology since the late twentieth century. In all its wide range of...
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‘A Life Worth Living: All My Days’—Rural Social Work with Older People
In rural areas of the United Kingdom (UK), the number and proportion of older people with care and support needs are increasing (Office for National...
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We Are Not All “Model”: Health of Older Asian Refugees in the United States
This chapter describes the health status and social determinants of health of older Asian-origin refugees resettled in the USA. Older refugees form...
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Rise of a Collective Creole Identity in South Africa Through Historical Contextualization
In our globalized world, creole identities constructed from a mosaic of multiple individual identities, connected by specific cultural traditions,...
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Gayal–Human Relationships in the Forests of Bangladesh
This paper presents changes in the relationships between the gayal (Bos frontalis) and humans in South Asia—especially in Bangladesh—in light of...
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(De-)ethnicizing Estonian language acquisition and practice
Drawing on over four years of ethnographic data, this article explores how Estonian language acquisition policies and practices tend to be overtly...
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No Longer Indigenous
Investigating individual level-Indigenous identification change by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians has been enabled through the...
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Is There a Problem with Migrant Concentrations? Evidence from Four Australian Cities
This chapter explores residential concentrations of migrants in the four main Australian gateway cities—Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Perth—drawing...
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Latino and Asian Segregation in New Destinations
Over the past several decades, hundreds of large and small communities across the United States saw Latino and Asian migration and population growth...
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British South Asian Political Conservatisms: The Brown Tory
The UK Conservative partyConservative party leadership contest in 2022 consisted of predominantly ethnic minority candidates. The first British-born...
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Data Disaggregation with American Indian/Alaska Native Population Data
More than any other racial group, American Indian/Alaska Natives (AIAN) face the risk of imprecise survey estimates due to survey processes regarding...
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Informal Volunteering and Immigrant Generations: Exploring Overlooked Dimensions in Immigrant Volunteering Research
Volunteering by immigrants provides dual a contribution: To civil society, immigrant volunteers can add an untapped human and social capital, social...
