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Asylum seeking in Australia
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The rise in the number of asylum seekers in Australia presents considerable challenges to the state as they are a self-selected, demand-driven group, whose numbers, country of origin, ethnic background, and social demographic characteristics cannot be determined in advance of their arrival. Peopl
e who apply for protection at the border are regarded primarily as illegal immigrants, and only secondarily as asylum seekers, and the illegality of their entry has become the primary factor in the way they are treated by the state, rather than their need for protection. Two streams of asylum seekers ...
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Demography: Past, Present, and Future.(field of demography and methods of analysis)
Magazine article from: Journal of the American Statistical Association
; ...statement, Hauser and Duncan (1959) defined demography as "the study of the size, territorial distribution...definition, for their inclusion has broadened demography to encompass two types of demography: formal demography and population studies...
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Connections: Demography and Sociology in Twentieth Century Canada [1].
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of Sociology
; ...Specific areas are highlighted in which demography can be shown to have benefited the...in Canadian universities housing demography programs and courses from the 1960s. These specific areas include: demography's empirical, statistical and...
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Work group demography, social integration, and turnover.
Magazine article from: Administrative Science Quarterly
; Work Group Demography, Social Integration, and Turnover...explores the relationships among group demography, social integration of the group...individual-level and group-level age demography directly affect turnover and are not...
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Top management team demography and process: The role of social integration and communication
Magazine article from: IBAR
; ...three alternative models of the effects of the top management team's demography and process on organizational performance: ( 1 ) a demography model, in which team demography accounts entirely for performance outcomes, and process has no impact...
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Introduction to the Mathematics of Demography.
Magazine article from: Journal of Risk and Insurance
; ...ASA, University of Waterloo, Ontario Demography--the statistical and mathematical...science. The techniques of mathematic demography are now widely used by demographers...the sociologist's point of view, demography is entirely descriptive and qualitative...
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SOCIOLOGIST SCORES A HIT WITH DEMOGRAPHY HANDBOOK
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News
; ...re calling it the Harry Potter of demography: Texas A&M University sociology...Dudley Poston has published the first new demography Handbook since 1959, and the 900...that it will become the new bible of demography." Poston and his colleague, Michael...
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The Demography of Corporations and Industries.(Review)
Magazine article from: Business History
; ...CARROLL and MICHAEL T. HANNAN, The Demography of Corporations and Industries...describe the subject of corporate demography, making clear the ways in which...subject develops and differs from demography as the term is usually understood...
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The Demography of Africa.(Review) (book review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Asian and African Studies
; James D. Tarver, The Demography of Africa. (Westport Connecticut...policies, and finally the future of demography in Africa. In Chapter 1 the author introduces the reader to what demography is and then goes on to examine how population...
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AN ALTERNATIVE EXPLANATION FOR THE ASYMMETRICAL EFFECTS IN RELATIONAL DEMOGRAPHY RESEARCH
Magazine article from: Personnel Psychology
; Several relational demography studies have demonstrated asymmetrical...to investigate the simple effects of demography in workgroups, researchers have focused on relative or relational demography. Tsui and O'Reilly (1989) coined...
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Top management team demography and process: the role of social integration and communication. (includes appendix)
Magazine article from: Administrative Science Quarterly
; ...echelons research are the team's demography and process and organizational performance. Demography refers to the aggregated external characteristics...Pfeffer (1983: 348) argued that "demography is an important, causal variable that...
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