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Sustained and Universal Fertility Recuperation in Kazakhstan
The fertility rates of Kazakhstan have reversed to levels not seen for several decades. The striking fertility increase poses questions regarding the...
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Evaluating the elderly satisfaction in medical recuperation building in the cold regions of China
Under the influence of aging aggravation, more and more the elderly people spend most of their time in medical buildings. However, there is still a...
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U.S. Fertility Decline and Recuperation Following the Great Recession by County-Level Industrial Composition of the Labor Force
Amid a persistent U.S. fertility decline since the Great Recession, fertility recuperation patterns by geographic regions were not homogeneous. This...
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Projecting the Contribution of Assisted Reproductive Technology to Completed Cohort Fertility
Assisted reproductive technology (ART) is increasingly influencing the fertility trends of high-income countries characterized by a pattern of...
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Colonial recursion: state categories of race and the emergence of the “Non-Western Allochthone”
Recent scholarship on state-based race categories shows that racial classification is anything but stable and self-evident. Indeed, states...
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On becoming the subject of health screening: a case study in ‘Conditioned Freedom’
The paper mobilises a personal experience of participation in a population-based health screen to explore wider aspects of subjectivity, choice and...
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Positive global environmental impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown: a review
Global environmental change is mainly due to human behaviours and is a major threat to sustainability. Despite all the health and economic...
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Delayed Fertility as a Driver of Fertility Decline?
A major transformation of life in the last decades has been the delay in fertility – that is, the decrease in fertility among people below age 25–30....
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Economic Cycles and Entry into Parenthood: Is the Association Changing and Does it Affect Macro-Level Trends? Micro-Level Hazard and Simulation Models of Belgian Fertility Trends, 1960–2010
The association between economic cycles—typically measured in terms of GDP growth or swings in unemployment—and macro-level fertility trends has...
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The second demographic transition in Japan: a review of the evidence
Despite a half century of below-replacement fertility, Japan is typically not included in discussions and evaluations of the second demographic...
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Women as Agents of Change: Male Circumcision and HIV Prevention in Kenya
The recent promotion of male circumcision as a public health strategy is based on research evidence from three randomised control trials conducted in...
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Disability, Sexuality, and Postcoloniality in Bengali Fiction
Manik Bandyopadhyay’s Pragoitihishik (1937) gives recognition and value to disabled sexuality which Bengali fiction has either been disinclined to...
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Writers and politics: Gisèle Sapiro’s advances within the Bourdieusian sociology of the literary field
This article undertakes a critical analysis of the work of Gisèle Sapiro, with reference to sociology of literature. From 1999 (Sapiro,
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Conceptualizing Community-based Environmental Peacebuilding in Cesar, Colombia
In conflict studies, environmental peacebuilding (EPB) has become an established concept to explain how environmental cooperation among opposing...
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Migrant Construction Workers’ Agency in Times of Economic Recession
This chapter aims to shed light on migrant construction workers’ agency by focusing on settled Albanians in Italy and Greece who are employed in the...
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Family Life Courses, Uncertain Futures, and the Changing World of Work: State-of-the-Art and Prospects
Labour markets in post-industrial countries have been undergoing tremendous transformations in the last two decades, substantially changing the...
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Dance Diversity on YouTube: How Participatory Culture Encourages Inclusive Masculinities
Anglo-American cultures traditionally constructed dance as a feminine activity, thus devaluing it, and making men who danced vulnerable to...
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(Im)mobility and Co** Practices Among Albanian Construction Workers and Their Families Amidst the Great Recession and Its Aftermath
This chapter explores the ways in which Albanian migrant builders and their families cope with the effects of the Great Recession, looking beyond the...
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The Evolution of Family-Related Behaviours in the Western Balkans and Their Impact on Present and Future Family and Population Structures: An Analysis Concerning the Period 1945–2050
Changes in family behaviours like marital and fertilityFertility postponement, increase in the proportion of adults never marring and not...