| Description |
1 online resource (251 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Library Editions: Demography Series ; v.12 |
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Routledge Library Editions: Demography Series
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Part I: Positions and Politics -- 1 Population, Resources and Rights -- Fertility Versus Policy -- The Politics of Policy -- Politics and Population -- Population and Development -- Population and Environment -- Population Policy and Individual Rights -- Feminism and Family Planning -- Falling Fertility -- Ideology and Population Meet -- Population and Politics, Children and Women -- Part II: Pronatalism |
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2 Background Noises: Ideology in Religion, Culture and Nature -- Scriptural Injunctions and Religious Inducements -- Christianity and Contraception -- Demographic Competition -- The Medical Imperative -- Infertility and its Discontents -- Parent Power -- 3 Children: Value Added -- The Cult of the Child -- Child Labour -- Child Labour, Family Size and Motivation -- School and Work -- Child Labour in the Developed World -- Child Work and Parent Power -- International Adoption -- Children's Rights -- 4 The Zero Option -- Childlessness and the Media -- Names and Numbers -- Investigating the Childfree |
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The Making of A Non-Parent -- Managing the Opposition -- Old Age and Social Security -- Policy Implications of Childlessness -- 5 The Myths of the Only Child -- Expert Opinion and Psychological Theories -- Research on the Only Child -- Chinese Only-Child Research -- Part III: Population Policy -- 6 India: Forty Trying Years -- Evolution of a Policy -- Two Steps Back -- Contraceptive Controversy -- The Conundrum of the Sex-Ratio in India -- The Perplexities of Population Policy in India -- 7 Kerala: The Economical Model -- A History of Difference -- Trouble at the Model |
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8 China: Bearing Pressure -- Demographic History -- Politics and the One-Child Policy -- Assessing the Policy -- Bending the Gender Ratio -- Effects of the Economic Reforms -- 9 Tibet: Dragon Tales -- Background and History -- Chinese Rule and Stewardship -- Role of the Exiles -- Resurgence of Traditional Economy and Culture -- Population Policy -- Migrants and Tourists -- Travel Reports -- 'Genocide' as Public Relations -- 10 Immigration: Artificial Increase -- Give me your Poor... -- Myths About Migrants -- Motives for Migration: Pull Factors -- The Impact on the Migrants.. |
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...And on Sending Countries -- Reasons for Refugees -- Undocumented Workers -- Controlling Public Outcry -- 11 Afterword: Untying Assistance -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000936155 |
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1000936155 |
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