57:10713 Cairo
Demographic Centre (Cairo, Egypt). Population policies in
the third world: issues and practice. Twenty-fifth anniversary
commemorative conference, 1988. LC 89-961624. [1988]. iii, 349,
[20] pp. Cairo, Egypt. In Eng.
These are the proceedings of a
conference on population policies in developing countries, held to
commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Cairo Demographic
Centre. They consist of a series of reports on specific topics
discussed in panel sessions, including the World Population Plan of
Action, fertility policies, spatial distribution policies, mortality
and morbidity policies, and integrated approaches to population and
development planning. Country studies are also included on population
policies in China, Indonesia, Egypt, Tunisia, the Arabian Gulf,
Morocco, and the Sudan. A final paper assesses current and future
directions of population policies.
Correspondence: Cairo
Demographic Centre, 2 Lebanon Street, P.O. Box 73, Mohandiseen 12655,
Cairo, Egypt. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
57:10714 Donaldson,
Peter J. On the origins of the United States government's
international population policy. Population Studies, Vol. 44, No.
3, Nov 1990. 385-99 pp. London, England. In Eng.
"Based on
documents obtained from the archives of the Agency for International
Development and on the author's interviews with participants in the
field, this article describes the evolution of America's international
population policy. The analysis highlights the perceived negative view
of the consequences of rapid population growth that were popular among
American policy makers during the 1960s. Also discussed are
organizational and policy changes that took place within the Agency for
International Development's population programme during its early
years. The article concludes that the origins of America's
international population programme were fundamentally conservative, and
based on the assumption that a certain demographic balance was an
essential feature of the properly ordered social life."
This is a
revised version of a paper originally presented at the 1987 Annual
Meeting of the Population Association of America (see Population Index,
Vol. 53, No. 3, Fall 1987, p. 409).
Correspondence: P. J.
Donaldson, Population Council, P.O. Box 11-1213, Nana Post Office,
Bangkok 10112, Thailand. Location: Princeton University
Library (SPR).
57:10715 Instituto
Latinoamericano de Investigaciones Sociales [ILDIS] (La Paz,
Bolivia). Population. [La poblacion.] Temas de
Politica Social, No. 7, Jul 1988. 105 pp. La Paz, Bolivia. In Spa.
This publication is the result of a workshop on population policy
held on May 4, 1988, in La Paz, Bolivia. It consists of four papers on
aspects of the population situation in Bolivia, including papers on
population policy, fertility policy, foreign populations in Bolivia,
and spatial distribution and immigration.
Correspondence:
Instituto Latinoamericano de Investigaciones Sociales, Edificio Torre
de las Americas, Bloque B, 2do. Mezaninne, La Paz, Bolivia.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
57:10716 Meda,
Yirzaola. National Council on Population: what are the
priorities for the Second Five-year Plan? [Conseil National de la
Population: quelles priorites pour le 2e Plan quinquennal.] Carrefour
Africain, No. 1121, Apr 27, 1990. 10-3 pp. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
In Fre.
The author describes the origins of the National Council on
Population in Burkina Faso and its role in ensuring that demographic
factors are given proper consideration in the country's development
planning process.
Location: World Bank, Joint Bank-Fund
Library, Washington, D.C.
57:10717 United
Nations. Department of International Economic and Social Affairs (New
York, New York). World population policies. Volume III:
Oman to Zimbabwe. Population Studies, No. 102, Add.2;
ST/ESA/SERA/102/Add2, Pub. Order No. E.90.XIII.2. ISBN 92-1-151188-7.
1990. vi, 264 pp. New York, New York. In Eng.
This is the third of
three volumes presenting information on world population policies,
based on the continuous monitoring of population policies by the U.N.
Population Division. The work is organized alphabetically by country;
this volume covers countries from Oman to Zimbabwe. The information
for each country includes selected demographic indicators, current
government perceptions of those indicators, the general policy
framework, the institutional framework relevant to policy formation,
and specific policies and measures.
For Volumes I and II, published
in 1987 and 1989, see 54:10776 and 55:20694.
Correspondence: U.N. Department of International Economic
and Social Affairs, United Nations Secretariat, New York, NY 10017.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
57:10718 Albers,
Willi; Galler, Heinz P.; Graff, Carsten; Homburg, Stefan; Kammann, H.
Werner; Klanberg, Frank; Quinke, Hermann. Family
compensation and demographic trends. [Familienlastenausgleich und
demographische Entwicklung.] Schriften des Vereins fur Social politik,
Gesellschaft fur Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften, Neue Folge,
Vol. 175, ISBN 3-428-06432-1. LC 89-139656. 1988. 130 pp. Duncker und
Humblot: Berlin, Germany, Federal Republic of. In Ger.
This
publication contains six papers, most of which were presented at the
annual meeting of the Association for Social Policy's Committee on
Population Economy, held in February 1987 in Stuttgart. The meeting
focused on family compensation and demographic trends, with a
geographic emphasis on West Germany. The topics covered include the
economic basis of family compensation, concepts of optimal family
compensation, influencing the behavior of families with economic
measures, existing family compensation and its further development,
family life situations and compensation, and methods for estimating the
costs of family compensation.
Correspondence: Duncker und
Humblot, Dietrich-Schafer-Weg 9, Postfach 410329, 1000 Berlin 41,
Germany. Location: University of Michigan Library, Ann Arbor,
MI.
57:10719 Buttner,
Thomas; Lutz, Wolfgang. Estimating fertility responses to
policy measures in the German Democratic Republic. Population and
Development Review, Vol. 16, No. 3, Sep 1990. 539-55, 610, 612 pp. New
York, New York. In Eng. with sum. in Fre; Spa.
"This note attempts
to quantitatively measure the fertility response to a package of
pronatalist policy measures introduced in the German Democratic
Republic in 1976. To create a standard of comparison between the
fertility trend following the policy and the hypothetical trend without
the policy, an age-period-cohort model is applied to the data....The
results suggest that the policy is responsible for a short-term
increase in fertility of about 20 percent and a medium-term (up to
1987) increase of around 15 percent."
Correspondence: T.
Buttner, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis,
Population Program, A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
57:10720 Greenhalgh,
Susan. Socialism and fertility in China. In: World
population: approaching the year 2000, edited by Samuel H. Preston.
Jul 1990. 73-86 pp. Sage Publications: Newbury Park, California/London,
England. In Eng.
The author examines the forces underlying the
fertility decline that occurred in China in the 1970s and early 1980s.
She argues that "the success of the later-longer-fewer policy of the
1970s and of the one-child policy of the 1980s can only be explained by
reference to the larger socioeconomic and sociopolitical context in
which the policies were carried out. The construction of a socialist
society in the first decade of Communist rule restructured social
institutions and state-society relations in ways that fundamentally
altered both the economics of childbearing, reducing the attractiveness
of children to parents, and the politics of fertility decision making,
giving parents little choice but to comply with restrictive fertility
policies after they were introduced. The direction of fertility change
in the 1990s is likely to hinge on developments in rural economic
policies, whose future, the past has taught, is hazardous to
predict."
Correspondence: S. Greenhalgh, Population
Council, Research Division, One Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, New York, NY
10017. Location: Princeton University Library (FST).
57:10721 Greenhalgh,
Susan. The peasantization of population policy in Shaanxi:
cadre mediation of the state-society conflict. Population Council
Research Division Working Paper, No. 21, 1990. 48 pp. Population
Council, Research Division: New York, New York. In Eng.
"This paper
examines the evolution of state-society relations in China in the area
of population control. Using retrospective field data from the
northwestern province of Shaanxi, it traces shifts in reproductive
control in the 1980s and the strategies local birth planning cadres
used to help engineer those shifts. In the villages studied, the
economic and political reforms launched in the late 1970s both
undermined the mechanisms by which the one-child policy was to be
enforced and reduced the power of local officials charged with carrying
it out. Finding the de jure fertility policy unenforceable, local
birth planning cadres devised a more workable de facto policy and
enforced that instead. That de facto policy largely neglected the
state's rules on late marriage and childbearing, and allowed couples to
have two children, including one son. The paper traces the political
processes and charts the demographic consequences of this shift in
local fertility policy."
Correspondence: Population
Council, One Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, New York, NY 10017.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
57:10722 Hohn,
Charlotte. Policies relevant to fertility. In: Future
demographic trends in Europe and North America: what can we assume
today? edited by Wolfgang Lutz. 1991. 247-55 pp. Academic Press: San
Diego, California/London, England; International Institute for Applied
Systems Analysis [IIASA]: Laxenburg, Austria. In Eng.
This chapter
concerns "explicitly political options that have both direct and
indirect effects on fertility." The prospects for devising effective
pronatalist policies in developed countries are
examined.
Correspondence: C. Hohn, Bundesinstitut fur
Bevolkerungsforschung, Postfach 55 28, 6200 Wiesbaden 1, Germany.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
57:10723 Kessler,
Wolfgang. A slow gallop into the year of the horse: new
legislation on family planning in the People's Republic of China.
[In gebremstem Galopp ins Jahr des Pferdes: Neues Recht der
Geburtenplanung in der VR China.] Verfassung und Recht in Ubersee/Law
and Politics in Africa, Asia and Latin America, Vol. 23, No. 2, 1990.
107, 109-26 pp. Hamburg, Germany, Federal Republic of. In Ger. with
sum. in Eng.
The current efforts in China to restrict the rate of
population growth by adopting and implementing stringent birth control
legislation are described. The author notes that while such
legislation is being considered at the national level, existing
legislation at the provincial level remains in force. A translation of
the Birth Planning Rules of Zhejiang Province as of December 1989 is
provided as an example.
Correspondence: W. Kessler,
Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany, Shanghai, China.
Location: Princeton University Library (PR).
57:10724 Khan,
Haroon ar R. Political culture and the implementation of
population policies in India and Bangladesh. Pub. Order No.
DA8918380. 1988. 167 pp. University Microfilms International: Ann
Arbor, Michigan. In Eng.
The author examines the effects of
political factors, education, the value of children, and cultural
background on the implementation and acceptance of population policies
aimed at decreasing fertility in India and Bangladesh. "The results of
the study show that if people are skeptical about the future, have
greater trust in their children for support during old age or
emergencies than the government, then they tend to resist birth control
policies....Surprisingly, education does not seem to have a significant
influence in the practice of birth control."
This work was prepared
as a doctoral dissertation at the University of
Kansas.
Correspondence: University Microfilms
International, 300 North Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48106.
Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, A: Humanities
and Social Sciences 50(4).
57:10725 Larsen,
Ulla. An assessment of the one-child policy in China from
1980 to 1985. European Journal of Population/Revue Europeenne de
Demographie, Vol. 6, No. 3, Sep 1990. 257-84 pp. Amsterdam,
Netherlands. In Eng. with sum. in Fre.
The author examines the
characteristics of couples who had a second or third child under the
one-child policy in China. "An analysis of second and third live birth
conceptions, from January 1980 to July 1984, in the two Chinese
provinces of Hebei and Shaanxi from the In-Depth Fertility Surveys
showed: (1) in urban areas third live birth conceptions were quite
rare, and higher economic development was associated with lower second
live birth conception risks; and (2) in the countryside the preference
for sons was a strong predictor of both second and third live birth
conceptions, and higher household income was followed generally by
lower risks of second and third live birth conceptions, while other
socioeconomic factors had little effect."
Correspondence:
U. Larsen, State University of New York, Department of Sociology, Stony
Brook, NY 11794-4356. Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
57:10726 Lee,
Ronald; Miller, Tim. Population policy and externalities
to childbearing. In: World population: approaching the year 2000,
edited by Samuel H. Preston. Jul 1990. 17-32 pp. Sage Publications:
Newbury Park, California/London, England. In Eng.
Four categories
of externalities that affect childbearing are investigated in this
study: "reproductive dilution of collective wealth; cost spreading for
public goods; public-sector intergenerational transfers--health,
education, and pensions; and other governmental expenditures.
Intergenerational transfers are found to create large positive
externalities in industrial welfare states but small negative ones in
Third World countries. Public goods lead to sizable positive
externalities in both groups of countries. Other governmental
expenditures lead to considerable negative externalities. Collective
wealth in the form of publicly owned mineral reserves leads in some
cases to enormous negative externalities, while in other cases it is of
little importance." The results provide little support for
fertility-reduction policies in developing countries that go beyond the
provision of family planning services, but do provide support for the
subsidizing of childbearing and child-rearing in the United States,
where most child-related costs are
privatized.
Correspondence: R. Lee, University of
California, Department of Economics, Berkeley, CA 94720.
Location: Princeton University Library (FST).
57:10727 Levy,
Michel L. The ebb and flow of pro-natalism. [Flux et
reflux du natalisme.] Population et Societes, No. 251, Nov 1990. [4]
pp. Institut National d'Etudes Demographiques [INED]: Paris, France. In
Fre.
The author reviews various measures that have been adopted in
France since the Revolution to provide aid to families with children
and to promote fertility. Consideration is given to the reform of the
current social security system.
Correspondence: Institut
National d'Etudes Demographiques, 27 rue du Commandeur, 75675 Paris
Cedex 14, France. Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
57:10728 Lundberg,
Shelly; Plotnick, Robert D. Effects of state welfare,
abortion and family planning policies on premarital childbearing among
white adolescents. Family Planning Perspectives, Vol. 22, No. 6,
Nov-Dec 1990. 246-51, 275 pp. New York, New York. In Eng.
"This
study develops an empirical model that measures the influence of state
welfare, abortion and family planning policies on decisions concerning
premarital pregnancy, abortion and single parenthood. Data are based
on the fertility and marital experiences of white females from the
three youngest cohorts of the [U.S.] National Longitudinal Survey of
Youth, for 1979-1986. The results show that laws restricting
contraceptive availability are associated with a higher risk of
pregnancy. Restrictive policies on public funding of abortions reduce
the likelihood of abortion, while greater availability of abortion
services is associated with a higher likelihood that adolescents will
obtain abortions. Finally, the estimates indicate that higher welfare
benefits reduce the probability that pregnant adolescents will marry
before bearing their children."
Correspondence: S.
Lundberg, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
57:10729 Vasilev,
Dimitar. Economic measures as a form of social impact on
the reproductive behavior of spouses. [Ikonomicheskite merki kato
forma na sotsialno vazdeistvie varkhu reproduktivnoto povedenie na
sapruzite.] Naselenie, Vol. 7, No. 1, 1989. 47-68 pp. Sofia, Bulgaria.
In Bul. with sum. in Eng; Rus.
The economic measures taken by
various countries that are designed to influence the fertility behavior
of individual couples are reviewed. Data are from two groups of
countries: those experiencing low fertility that have completed the
demographic transition, and those with high fertility that have not.
An attempt is made to identify both the antinatalist and pronatalist
measures that have been the most effective.
Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
57:10730 Wang,
Xiangying. China's population policy. In: Studies in
African and Asian demography: CDC Annual Seminar, 1989. 1990. 1,037-51
pp. Cairo Demographic Centre: Cairo, Egypt. In Eng.
An overview of
China's population policy and family planning program is presented.
"This paper describes the policy, its evolution, implementation, and
its success."
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
57:10731 Bean, Frank
D.; Edmonston, Barry; Passel, Jeffrey S. Undocumented
migration to the United States: IRCA and the experience of the
1980s. ISBN 0-87766-490-0. LC 90-12967. 1990. xx, 271 pp. Rand
Corporation: Santa Monica, California; Urban Institute: Washington,
D.C. Distributed by University Press of America, 4720 Boston Way,
Lanham, MD 20706. In Eng.
"The 1986 Immigration Reform and Control
Act--the most sweeping revision of U.S. immigration policy since
1965--contains several major provisions but its most important
objective was to reduce illegal immigration. This book presents the
most up-to-date evidence available on the size of the illegal
population in the United States and how it has changed in the 1980s.
The various authors rely on several different data sources to tackle
the problem of estimating whether IRCA has had an impact on illegal
immigration to the United States and employ a variety of approaches to
tease out information on trends. Some present results based on data
collected in Mexico, the single most important source
country...."
Correspondence: Urban Institute Press, 2100 M
Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20037. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
57:10732 Beaujot,
Roderic. Immigration policy and sociodemographic change:
the Canadian case. In: Future demographic trends in Europe and
North America: what can we assume today? edited by Wolfgang Lutz.
1991. 359-77 pp. Academic Press: San Diego, California/London, England;
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis [IIASA]:
Laxenburg, Austria. In Eng.
"Starting with a brief history of
immigration policy, this chapter will consider the demographic,
socioeconomic, and sociocultural impacts of immigration to Canada."
The author includes a discussion of the impact of migration policy on
future migration flows to Canada.
Correspondence: R.
Beaujot, University of Western Ontario, Population Studies Centre,
London, Ontario N6A 5C2, Canada. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
57:10733 Choi,
Jin-Ho. Patterns of urbanization and population
distribution policies in the Republic of Korea. Regional
Development Dialogue, Vol. 11, No. 1, Spring 1990. 130-58 pp. Nagoya,
Japan. In Eng.
"This article will first examine the patterns of
urbanization in the [Republic of Korea] and describe the population
policies to date. It will then assess the effectiveness of those
policies [on spatial distribution] and finally, suggest possible future
policy directions." A comment by Ramamohan Mahidhara is included (pp.
152-8).
Correspondence: J.-H. Choi, Korea Research
Institute for Human Settlements, 10-2 Youido-dong, Youngdungpo-gu,
Seoul 150, Republic of Korea. Location: U.S. Library of
Congress, Washington, D.C.
57:10734 Finch,
Wilbur A. The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986:
a preliminary assessment. Social Service Review, Vol. 64, No. 2,
Jun 1990. 244-60 pp. Chicago, Illinois. In Eng.
"The Immigration
Reform and Control Act of 1986 represented a new attempt at controlling
immigration into the United States while offering legalization to a
large number of persons who earlier had entered illegally. An
examination of the provisions of this legislation and an analysis of
its implementation in relation to legalization, employer sanctions, and
nondiscrimination identify a range of problems that have yet to be
resolved. In addition, its impact on illegal immigration into the
United States is examined, and the problem posed by lack of accurate
statistics on undocumented workers currently residing in this country
is considered. Clearly, the law has failed to remove the undocumented
underclass from American society and may contradict economic reality as
America becomes increasingly dependent on immigrant workers to fill
labor shortages in future years."
Correspondence: W. A.
Finch, University of Southern California, University Park, Los Angeles,
CA 90089. Location: Princeton University Library (PR).
57:10735 Hansen,
Niles. Urbanization and population distribution policies
in Asia and the Pacific. Regional Development Dialogue, Vol. 11,
No. 1, Spring 1990. 208 pp. U.N. Centre for Regional Development:
Nagoya, Japan. In Eng.
This special issue is the product of a
cross-national research project set up to examine implicit and explicit
population distribution policies and programs and how they have
affected urbanization trends and urban management in the countries of
Asia and the Pacific region. It contains papers presented at a
workshop held in Honolulu, Hawaii, in March 1989.
Selected items
will be cited in this or subsequent issues of Population
Index.
Correspondence: U.N. Centre for Regional
Development, Nagono 1-47-1, Nakamura-ku, Nagoya 450, Japan.
Location: U.S. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
57:10736 Ito,
Ruri. Selective internationalization: foreign workers and
Japanese society. [L'internationalisation selective: travailleurs
etrangers et societe japonaise.] Revue Europeenne des Migrations
Internationales, Vol. 6, No. 2, 1990. 7-26 pp. Poitiers, France. In
Fre. with sum. in Eng; Spa.
Japanese legislation to regulate
international migration and increase governmental control over skilled
and unskilled migrants to Japan is discussed. "After a brief overview
of Japanese migratory experiences in the past and a presentation of
basic data concerning the new migrants, the article points out some of
the underlying socio-political stakes of this selective
internationalization. Two dimensions are of interest. Firstly, its
implications in connection with the emerging socio-economic
segmentation and the transformation taking place in the field of
employment structure. Secondly, and more importantly, its consequences
upon the integration policy of foreign populations, especially with
regard to Korean and Chinese communities."
Correspondence:
R. Ito, Meiji Gakuin University, Faculty of International Studies, 1518
Kami Kurata-Cho, Totsuka-ku, Yokohama 244, Japan. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
57:10737 Jones,
Gavin W. Structural economic change and its relationship
to urbanization and population distribution policies. Regional
Development Dialogue, Vol. 11, No. 1, Spring 1990. 1-22 pp. Nagoya,
Japan. In Eng.
The author examines the attitude of governments
toward trends in spatial distribution and urbanization, using data from
the U.N. Population Enquiry Among Governments. He points out that
during periods of rapid structural change, as experienced in many Asian
countries in recent years, large cities tend to absorb an increasing
share of both total and urban population growth. However, he also
notes an anti-urban bias among many third-world policymakers that
manifests itself in dissatisfaction with current trends in both spatial
distribution and urbanization. A comment by Ernesto M. Pernia is
included (pp. 19-22).
Correspondence: G. W. Jones,
Australian National University, Research School of Social Sciences,
G.P.O. Box 4, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia. Location: U.S.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
57:10738 Kim, Won
Bae. Population distribution policy in China: a
review. Regional Development Dialogue, Vol. 11, No. 1, Spring
1990. 159-91 pp. Nagoya, Japan. In Eng.
"After briefly reviewing
China's development strategy in the post-1949 period, this article
describes the policies and programmes adopted by the Chinese government
for controlling internal migration. The effects of those policies and
programmes on total migration rates, rural-to-urban migration,
interregional migration, interprovincial migration, and population
distribution among cities of different size are also assessed. The
increasing number of temporary migrants, including China's 'floating
population,' will be examined as well, together with recent policy
changes in population migration and movement." A comment by Lawrence
J. C. Ma is included (pp. 188-91).
Correspondence: W. B.
Kim, East-West Center, Population Institute, 1777 East-West Road,
Honolulu, HI 96848. Location: U.S. Library of Congress,
Washington, D.C.
57:10739 Murphy,
Joseph P.; Espenshade, Thomas J. Immigration's prism:
historical continuities in the Kennedy-Simpson legal immigration reform
bill. Population and Environment, Vol. 12, No. 2, Winter 1990.
139-58 pp. New York, New York. In Eng.
"National debates about U.S.
immigration policy usually involve a blend of three issues: (1) How
many immigrants should the United States accept? (2) Where should the
immigrants come from? (3) What criteria should be used in selecting
immigrants? The debate and compromise surrounding the Kennedy-Simpson
bill, passed by the U.S. Senate in July 1989 and constituting the
Senate's latest attempt to reform U.S. legal immigration policy, is no
exception. This paper examines the evolution of the Kennedy-Simpson
bill, partly to reveal current directions in the U.S. immigration
policy but more importantly to use this analysis as a prism through
which historical continuities in U.S. immigration reforms may be
isolated and evaluated."
Correspondence: T. J. Espenshade,
Princeton University, Office of Population Research, 21 Prospect
Avenue, Princeton, NJ 08544-2091. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
57:10740 Rondinelli,
Dennis A. Policies for balanced urban development in Asia:
concepts and reality. Regional Development Dialogue, Vol. 11, No.
1, Spring 1990. 23-59 pp. Nagoya, Japan. In Eng.
The author
summarizes government plans and policies in Asia that are designed to
influence the spatial distribution of the population. Information is
from U.N. surveys of governments. He concludes that most countries are
trying to encourage population growth and economic development in
medium-sized cities rather than in major urban centers or remote rural
areas. A comment by Mike Douglass is included (pp.
52-9).
Correspondence: D. A. Rondinelli, Research Triangle
Institute, Office for International Programs, P.O. Box 12194, Research
Triangle Park, NC 27709. Location: U.S. Library of Congress,
Washington, D.C.
57:10741 Sassen,
Saskia. U.S. immigration policy toward Mexico in a global
economy. Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 43, No. 2, Winter
1990. 369-83 pp. New York, New York. In Eng.
"This article will
briefly examine the main immigration flows, [from Mexico] into the
United States since 1965 in the light of major immigration policy
objectives, the impact of the internationalization of production on the
formation of migration flows, transformations in the U.S. labor market,
particularly those that may contribute to the absorption of the
post-1965 immigration, and finally, what all this means for policy."
The author's main hypothesis is that the failure of U.S. immigration
policy is due to an insistence on treating immigration, particularly
from Mexico, as an autonomous process independent of the growing
internationalization of economic affairs.
Correspondence:
S. Sassen, Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture and
Planning, Morningside Heights, New York, NY 10027. Location:
Princeton University Library (SF).
57:10742 Tsai,
Hsung-Hsiung. Population decentralization policies: the
experience of Taiwan. Industry of Free China, Vol. 73, No. 3, Mar
1990. 1-12 pp. Taipei, Taiwan. In Eng.
"Social and economic
policies and programs adopted by the government of Taiwan have slowed
the pace of population concentration and prevented the highly
concentrated distribution of population experienced by many developing
countries. After presenting a brief analysis of Taiwan's population
growth and distribution during the past three decades, this text
examines the policies and programs credited with having curbed
population concentration. They include both spatial development
policies established for the purpose of decentralizing the population
and its economic activities, and development policies that, although
not designed expressly to curb population concentration, have had such
an effect."
Correspondence: H.-H. Tsai, Council for
Economic Planning and Development, Urban and Housing Development
Department, Taipei, Taiwan. Location: World Bank, Joint
Bank-Fund Library, Washington, D.C.
57:10743 Zagorski,
K. Regional differences in immigration and economic
structure in Australia. International Migration/Migrations
Internationales/Migraciones Internacionales, Vol. 28, No. 3, Sep 1990.
347-68 pp. Geneva, Switzerland. In Eng. with sum. in Fre; Spa.
"The
scale of overseas immigration and the exceptional importance of the
role played by migrants in demographic, economic and cultural trends in
Australia makes the immigration policy one of the key components of
Australian politics. Both the immigration policy and the outcomes of
this policy are shaped by four major groups of factors: demographic,
economic, cultural, and political in a broad sense. The weighting of
these factors changes from period to period. This paper looks at the
extent to which some of these factors affect regional differentiation
of the immigration pattern. The analysis is focused on the influences
of employment structure and other socio-economic characteristics of
different Australian regions, exerted on overseas migration to these
regions."
Correspondence: K. Zagorski, Australian National
University, Research School of Social Science, Canberra ACT 2601,
Australia. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
