Population & Development Paperbacks

New and Published Books

1. Asian Cities, Migrant Labor and Contested Spaces

   Edited by Tai-Chee Wong, Jonathan Rigg

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

   This volume explores how migration is playing a central role in the renewing and reworking of urban spaces in the fast growing and rapidly changing cities of Asia. Migration trends in Asia entered a new phase in the 1990s following the end of the Cold War which marked the advent of a renewed phase...

   Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
2. Circulation in Population Movement (Routledge Revivals)

   Substance and concepts from the Melanesian case

   Edited by Murray Chapman, R. Mansell Prothero

   First published in 1985, this collection of essays deals with processes of population movement and how they have operated over time. It is also about people: Melanesian’s who number some five million and inhabit the region stretching from the Indonesian province of Irian Jaya to the Independent...

   Published March 31st 2013 by Routledge
3. The Global Health Care Chain

   From the Pacific to the World

   By John Connell

   Series: Routledge Research in Population and Migration

   For more than a quarter of a century there has been significant international migration of skilled health workers, but in the last decades, with critical changes in both sending and receiving countries, few parts of the world are now unaffected by the consequences of the migration of health workers...

   Published October 9th 2012 by Routledge
4. China's Urban Space

   Development under market socialism

   By Terry McGee, George C.S. Lin, Mark Wang, Andrew Marton, Jiaping Wu

   Series: Routledge Studies on China in Transition

   China’s urban growth is unparalleled in the history of global urbanization, and will undoubtedly create huge challenges to China as it modernizes its society. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this book presents an overview of the radical transformation of China’s urban space since the 1970s,...

   Published March 23rd 2011 by Routledge
5. Labour Migration and Social Development in Contemporary China

   Edited by Rachel Murphy

   Series: Comparative Development and Policy in Asia

   Since the mid-1980s, mass migration from the countryside to urban areas has been one of the most dramatic and noticeable changes in China. Labour migration has not only exerted a profound impact on China’s economy; it has also had far-reaching consequences for its social development. This book...

   Published May 31st 2010 by Routledge