60:10674 African
Development Bank Group (Abidjan, Ivory Coast). Population
policies for sustainable economic and social development in
Africa. [1992?]. 103, [3] pp. Abidjan, Ivory Coast. In Eng.
This is a report from the 1992 Annual Meeting Symposium of the
African Development Bank Group, held in Dakar, Senegal, May 11, 1992.
The subject of the meeting was population policy for sustainable
economic and social development in Africa. The report consists of
seven presentations by both African and non-African experts on aspects
of population policy including human resource development, poverty, and
women in development; agricultural and rural development; population
policy in the African sociocultural context; environmental issues; and
demographic trends and their policy
implications.
Correspondence: African Development Bank
Group, B.P. 1387, Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
60:10675 Avramov,
Dragana. Child care, school time schedules and
professional activity of parents. In: European population. Volume
2: demographic dynamics, edited by Alain Blum and Jean-Louis Rallu.
1993. 343-69 pp. John Libbey Eurotext: Montrouge, France. In Eng.
The author reviews the literature on child care issues in Europe,
with a focus on policy approaches taken by different countries to aid
working parents. The impact of national programs on fertility levels
is also assessed.
Correspondence: D. Avramov, Institute of
Social Sciences, Svetog Save 22a, 11000 Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
60:10680 Badelt,
Christoph. "Parents' salary" and "freedom of choice"
between paid and unpaid work: empirical results of a controversial
concept. ["Erziehungsgeld" und "Wahlfreiheit" zwischen Erwerbs-
und Familienarbeit: empirische Evidenz zu einem kontroversiellen
Konzept.] Demographische Informationen, 1992-1993. 5-15, 155 pp.
Vienna, Austria. In Ger. with sum. in Eng.
The author summarizes
results from a study on the impact of a parents' salary in Vorarlburg,
a province in western Austria. "According to this concept parents are
'paid' by the government for taking care of their children during the
first years after birth, while giving up paid work in the labour
market. Critics oppose this concept because of its potentially
negative implications for the labour force participation of women....It
is shown that the public transfer payment substantially improves the
financial situation of the families involved but also affects the
distribution of money and power between the spouses within the
households. Moreover, it is pointed out that the payment of a parents'
salary itself has 'asymmetrical' effects, which could be balanced if
more efforts were made to improve the child care facilities for
children under three."
Correspondence: C. Badelt,
Wirtschaftsuniversitat Wien, Wirtschafts- und Sozialpolitik, Augasse
2-6, 1090 Vienna, Austria. Location: Princeton University
Library (SPR).
60:10681 Mezei,
Smaranda. Policy regulation and demographic behaviour.
Romanian population policy and its consequences. Materialien zur
Bevolkerungswissenschaft, No. 79, 1993. 57-68 pp. Wiesbaden, Germany.
In Eng.
The effect of population policy in Romania up to 1989 is
discussed. The author finds that "Romania's population policy up to
1989, for which any contraceptive method was illegal and punished, and
where as a consequence there was a severe control of information
regarding family planning,...had a real and very important impact on
attitudes and behaviour...[and] on health, especially on that of women
and children." Data on deaths from illegal abortion, maternal
mortality, and child abandonment are
presented.
Correspondence: S. Mezei, Institute of
Sociology, Bucharest, Romania. Location: Princeton University
Library (SPR).
60:10686 Daniels,
Roger. United States policy towards Asian immigrants:
contemporary developments in historical perspective. International
Journal, Vol. 48, No. 2, Spring 1993. 310-34 pp. Toronto, Canada. In
Eng.
The author presents a brief history of U.S. migration policy
concerning migrants from Asia to the United States. Data are from
official and other published sources, with special consideration to
data from the 1990 census.
Correspondence: R. Daniels,
University of Cincinnati, Department of History, Cincinnati, OH 45221.
Location: New York Public Library, New York, NY.
60:10687 Fibbi,
Rosita. Continuities and changes in Swiss migration
policy. [Continuites et changements dans la politique migratoire
suisse.] Schweizerische Zeitschrift fur Soziologie/Revue Suisse de
Sociologie, Vol. 19, No. 1, Mar 1993. 47-64, 284 pp. Zurich,
Switzerland. In Fre. with sum. in Eng.
"In May 1991 the Swiss
Federal Government...submitted to the Parliament some proposals aiming
at reshaping the immigration policy. In this article, we give an
overview of the current re-organisation of policy, we analyse the
underlying logic of the adopted measures as well as their possible
consequences, and we try to show how the policy towards foreigners
interferes with the policy towards refugees and asylum-seekers. We
describe the political and economic motivations behind the changes in
policy....We show how immigration policy and asylum policy have become
gradually incompatible....The contradiction is obvious in three aspects
of the current policy: the ethnic selection, the selection according
to occupations, and the legitimation of the
selection."
Correspondence: R. Fibbi, Universite de
Lausanne, Institut d'Anthropologie et Sociologie, BFSH2, 1015 Lausanne,
Switzerland. Location: Princeton University Library (PR).
