The Changing Face of Canada: Essential Readings in Population

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Roderic P. Beaujot, Donald W. Kerr
Canadian Scholars’ Press, 2007 - Social Science - 389 pages
Canadian society is rapidly changing. This concise, up-to-date volume masterfully captures this change. Edited by two of Canada's leading demographers, Roderic Beaujot and Don Kerr, this book is an exciting entry in Canadian population studies, drawing from a variety of disciplines, including sociology, geography, economics, history, and epidemiology. The Changing Face of Canada is an essential text for demography courses across the country.

Each reading has been meticulously edited and concisely ordered into five essential sections:
  • fertility
  • mortality
  • international migration, domestic migration and population distribution
  • population aging
  • population composition
Vital issues include: the role of immigration in Canada's future; the deteriorating economic welfare of immigrants; globalization, undocumented migration, and unwanted refugees; Aboriginal population change; implications of unprecedented low fertility; and the astonishing demographic transformation of Canadian cities.
 

Contents

Preface
9
FERTILITY
25
Chapter 8
30
Chapter 3
43
Chapter 4
59
Chapter 5
71
MORTALITY
87
Chapter 7
101
Canada in International
213
Chapter 16
227
Chapter 17
243
POPULATION COMPOSITION
251
Chapter 19
269
Chapter 20
283
Chapter 21
297
Chapter 22
311

Narrowing Sex Differential in Life Expectancy in Canada
127
INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION
141
Chapter 11
159
Chapter 13
181
Chapter 14
197
Chapter 23
329
Canadian Population Estimates 19712005
339
References
351
Copyright Acknowledgments
383
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