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This open access book presents the trends and patterns of demographic and family changes from all eleven countries in the region for the past 50 years. The rich data are coupled with historical, cultural and policy background to facilitate an understanding of the changes that families in Southeast Asia have been going through. The book is structured into two parts. Part A includes three segments preceded by a briefing on Southeast Asia. The first segment focuses on marital and partnership status in the region, particularly marriage rates, age at marriage, incidence of singlehood, cohabitation, and divorce. The second segment focuses on fertility indicators such as fertility rates (total, age-specific, adolescent), age at childbearing, and childlessness. The third presents information on household structures in the region by examining household sizes, and incidence of one-person households, single-parent families, as well as extended and composite households. Part B presents indicators of children and youths well-being.
Demographic transition --- Families --- Population Structure of Southeast Asia --- Population Density --- Female Labour Force Participation --- Gender Inequality Index (GII) --- Singulate Main Age at Marriage (SMAM) --- Singlehood and Consensual Union --- Marriage and Divorce --- Marital and Partnership Status in Southeast Asia --- Fertility Indicators in Southeast Asia --- Household Structures in Southeast Asia --- Total Fertility Rate (TFR) --- Main Age at Childbearing (MAC) --- Age-Specific Fertility Rates (ASFR) --- Childlessness in Southeast Asia --- Average Household Size in Southeast Asia 1980-2010 --- Household Types in Southeast Asia, 1970-2010 --- Living Arrangements among Older Adults in Southeast Asia --- Child and Youth Well-Being --- Education Levels in Southeast Asia
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This open access book presents the trends and patterns of demographic and family changes from all eleven countries in the region for the past 50 years. The rich data are coupled with historical, cultural and policy background to facilitate an understanding of the changes that families in Southeast Asia have been going through. The book is structured into two parts. Part A includes three segments preceded by a briefing on Southeast Asia. The first segment focuses on marital and partnership status in the region, particularly marriage rates, age at marriage, incidence of singlehood, cohabitation, and divorce. The second segment focuses on fertility indicators such as fertility rates (total, age-specific, adolescent), age at childbearing, and childlessness. The third presents information on household structures in the region by examining household sizes, and incidence of one-person households, single-parent families, as well as extended and composite households. Part B presents indicators of children and youths well-being.
Demographic transition --- Families --- Population Structure of Southeast Asia --- Population Density --- Female Labour Force Participation --- Gender Inequality Index (GII) --- Singulate Main Age at Marriage (SMAM) --- Singlehood and Consensual Union --- Marriage and Divorce --- Marital and Partnership Status in Southeast Asia --- Fertility Indicators in Southeast Asia --- Household Structures in Southeast Asia --- Total Fertility Rate (TFR) --- Main Age at Childbearing (MAC) --- Age-Specific Fertility Rates (ASFR) --- Childlessness in Southeast Asia --- Average Household Size in Southeast Asia 1980-2010 --- Household Types in Southeast Asia, 1970-2010 --- Living Arrangements among Older Adults in Southeast Asia --- Child and Youth Well-Being --- Education Levels in Southeast Asia
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This open access book presents the trends and patterns of demographic and family changes from all eleven countries in the region for the past 50 years. The rich data are coupled with historical, cultural and policy background to facilitate an understanding of the changes that families in Southeast Asia have been going through. The book is structured into two parts. Part A includes three segments preceded by a briefing on Southeast Asia. The first segment focuses on marital and partnership status in the region, particularly marriage rates, age at marriage, incidence of singlehood, cohabitation, and divorce. The second segment focuses on fertility indicators such as fertility rates (total, age-specific, adolescent), age at childbearing, and childlessness. The third presents information on household structures in the region by examining household sizes, and incidence of one-person households, single-parent families, as well as extended and composite households. Part B presents indicators of children and youths well-being.
Demographic transition --- Families --- Population Structure of Southeast Asia --- Population Density --- Female Labour Force Participation --- Gender Inequality Index (GII) --- Singulate Main Age at Marriage (SMAM) --- Singlehood and Consensual Union --- Marriage and Divorce --- Marital and Partnership Status in Southeast Asia --- Fertility Indicators in Southeast Asia --- Household Structures in Southeast Asia --- Total Fertility Rate (TFR) --- Main Age at Childbearing (MAC) --- Age-Specific Fertility Rates (ASFR) --- Childlessness in Southeast Asia --- Average Household Size in Southeast Asia 1980-2010 --- Household Types in Southeast Asia, 1970-2010 --- Living Arrangements among Older Adults in Southeast Asia --- Child and Youth Well-Being --- Education Levels in Southeast Asia
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"An up-close account of how Nigerians' self-reliance in the absence of reliable government services enables official dysfunction to strengthen state powerWhen Nigerians say that every household is its own local government, what they mean is that the politicians and state institutions of Africa's richest, most populous country cannot be trusted to ensure even the most basic infrastructure needs of their people. Daniel Jordan Smith traces how innovative entrepreneurs and ordinary citizens in Nigeria have forged their own systems in response to these deficiencies, devising creative solutions in the daily struggle to survive.Drawing on his three decades of experience in Nigeria, Smith examines the many ways Nigerians across multiple social strata develop technologies, businesses, social networks, political strategies, cultural repertoires, and everyday routines to cope with the constant failure of government infrastructure. He describes how Nigerians provide for basic needs like water, electricity, transportation, security, communication, and education-and how their inventiveness comes with consequences. On the surface, it may appear that their self-reliance and sheer hustle render the state irrelevant. In reality, the state is not so much absent as complicit. Smith shows how private efforts to address infrastructural shortcomings require regular engagement with government officials, shaping the experience of citizenship and strengthening state power.Every Household Its Own Government reveals how these dealings have contributed to forms and practices of governance that thrive on official dysfunction and perpetuate the very inequalities and injustices that afflict struggling Nigerians"-- "In Nigeria, Africa's most populous and richest country in terms of per capita GDP, people say that "every household is its own local government." What they mean is that politicians and state institutions have not delivered-and cannot be trusted to ensure-even the most basic infrastructure. Nigeria is a place where, for many people, water must be purchased daily from vendors carting jerrycans filled from boreholes dug in wealthier neighbors' compounds. Small businesses rely on mini-generators for electricity because the national grid supplies power only sporadically. "Public transportation" depends mostly on networks of privately-owned buses and armies of independent motorcycle-taxi drivers. On the surface, it appears that Nigerians' self-reliance render the state irrelevant. In reality, all of these ostensibly private efforts to address infrastructural shortcomings involve regular state-society interaction. These dealings have contributed to forms and practices of state power and everyday citizenship that ironically thrive on official dysfunction and tragically perpetuate the very inequalities and injustices that struggling Nigerians most lament. This book examines the ways that Nigerians across multiple social strata have developed vibrant informal economies-businesses, social networks, political ties, cultural strategies, and daily habits-to cope with the constant failure of government-provided infrastructure. Based on years of ethnographic research-focusing in particular on the case study of Umuahia, a small city in Igbo-speaking southeastern Nigeria-and written in jargon-free prose, each chapter focuses on a different domain: water, electricity, transportation, communication, education, and security. Drawing on a myriad of examples of how ordinary citizens and small-scale entrepreneurs encounter and must deal with government officials, bureaucrats, regulators, and police as they try to cobble together essential infrastructure, Smith ultimately argues that the state is not so much absent as complicit"--
Economic policy. --- Infrastructure (Economics) --- Nigeria --- Apprenticeship. --- Back office. --- Bathroom. --- Borehole. --- Bureaucrat. --- Capitalism. --- Civil service. --- Civil society. --- Collective action. --- Complaint. --- Computer Village. --- Corporate identity. --- Cottage Industry. --- Credit (finance). --- Cronyism. --- Crystal Clear (company). --- Cumulative effects (environment). --- Customer. --- Deputy commissioner. --- Economy. --- Electric power distribution. --- Electricity. --- Entrepreneurship. --- Everyday life. --- Facebook. --- Fuel. --- Governance. --- Government Office. --- Government. --- Grandparent. --- Grassroots. --- Handout. --- Headline. --- Home security. --- Hydroelectricity. --- Income. --- Infrastructure. --- Instance (computer science). --- Internet access. --- Jerrycan. --- John Templeton Foundation. --- Landline. --- Laundry detergent. --- Life expectancy. --- Livelihood. --- Mains electricity. --- Manufacturing. --- Markup (business). --- Mattress. --- Mechanic. --- Memorization. --- Metal gate. --- Military dictatorship. --- Mobile phone. --- Modernity. --- Multinational corporation. --- Municipal authority (Pennsylvania). --- NITEL. --- Nigerians. --- Online banking. --- Owerri. --- Plumbing. --- Police commissioner. --- Preschool. --- Primary school. --- Private school. --- Private university. --- Privatization. --- Public institution (United States). --- Public university. --- Refrigerator. --- Regulation. --- Room and board. --- Ruler. --- Salary. --- School meal. --- Secret society. --- Shelf life. --- Small business. --- Social science. --- Standby generator. --- State (polity). --- State capture. --- State formation. --- State-owned enterprise. --- Subcontractor. --- Subsidy. --- Task force. --- Teacher. --- Tertiary education. --- Their Lives. --- Total fertility rate. --- Traditional authority. --- Tuition payments. --- Uganda. --- Usage. --- Vendor. --- Vodacom. --- Wholesaling. --- Wiring (development platform).
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"An in-depth look at the many ways immigration has redefined modern America. The impact of immigrants over the past half century has become so much a part of everyday life in the United States that we sometimes fail to see it. This deeply researched book by one of America's leading immigration scholars tells the story of how immigrants are fundamentally changing this country.An astonishing number of immigrants and their children-nearly eighty-six million people-now live in the United States. Together, they have transformed the American experience in profound and far-reaching ways that go to the heart of the country's identity and institutions.Unprecedented in scope, One Quarter of the Nation traces how immigration has reconfigured America's racial order-and, importantly, how Americans perceive race-and played a pivotal role in reshaping electoral politics and party alignments. It discusses how immigrants have rejuvenated our urban centers as well as some far-flung rural communities, and examines how they have strengthened the economy, fueling the growth of old industries and spurring the formation of new ones. This wide-ranging book demonstrates how immigration has touched virtually every facet of American culture, from the music we dance to and the food we eat to the films we watch and books we read.One Quarter of the Nation opens a new chapter in our understanding of immigration. While many books look at how America changed immigrants, this one examines how they changed us. It reminds us that immigration has long been a part of American society, and shows how immigrants and their families continue to redefine who we are as a nation"--
Immigrants --- Ethnicity --- United States --- United States --- United States --- Emigration and immigration --- Social aspects. --- Race relations. --- Ethnic relations. --- 1960s. --- Abolitionism. --- Abraham Beame. --- Adult. --- African Americans. --- Andy García. --- Annual Cap. --- Asian Americans. --- Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories. --- Barack Obama. --- Bill Clinton. --- Birth rate. --- Birthright citizenship in the United States. --- Census. --- Chinese emigration. --- Cinco de Mayo. --- Civilian Labor Force. --- Columbus Day. --- Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. --- Deindustrialization. --- Demographics of China. --- Demography. --- Economic recovery. --- Economy and Society. --- Economy of the United States. --- Ecuadorians. --- Edward James Olmos. --- Ethnic enclave. --- Ethnoburb. --- Expense. --- Family reunification. --- Foreign born. --- Fortune 500. --- Grandparent. --- H-1B visa. --- Half-caste. --- Hebrews. --- Hispanic. --- Illegal immigration. --- Immigration Act of 1924. --- Immigration to the United States. --- Immigration. --- Indian Americans. --- Insider. --- Irving Berlin. --- Isaac Bashevis Singer. --- Jamaican Americans. --- John F. Kennedy. --- John McCain. --- Joseph Heller. --- Korean diaspora. --- Koreans. --- Lin-Manuel Miranda. --- Majority minority. --- Mexican Americans. --- Mexicans. --- Michael Dukakis. --- Middle East. --- Middle class. --- Midterm election. --- Minority group. --- Mitt Romney. --- Model minority. --- Multiracial Americans. --- Multiracial. --- New People. --- Oscar Handlin. --- Path to citizenship. --- Peter Brimelow. --- Political machine. --- Population decline. --- Population transfer. --- Presidency of Barack Obama. --- Progressive Era. --- Protestantism. --- Race and ethnicity in the United States Census. --- Race and ethnicity in the United States. --- Racism. --- Realigning election. --- Recession. --- Refugee. --- Retirement age. --- Richard Rodgers. --- Society of the United States. --- Suburb. --- Suffrage. --- Superiority (short story). --- Telemundo. --- The Passing of the Great Race. --- Time (magazine). --- Total fertility rate. --- Tuition payments. --- Unemployment. --- United States Census Bureau. --- Voting Rights Act of 1965. --- Voting. --- White flight. --- Work permit (United Kingdom). --- Wyclef Jean. --- Zadie Smith.
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