tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-199496762024-03-18T10:37:38.168+00:00demography.matters.blogUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger684125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19949676.post-90766078995058360442020-12-17T04:36:00.000+00:002020-12-17T04:42:18.301+00:00A brief note on the blog and on COVID-19The subject of COVID-19, a virus that burst forth from its rom obscurity in (most likely) one population or another of wild mammals in China to become a global zoonotic pandemic, is well-suited for Demography Matters. Speaking for myself, I have felt unable to address this topic because it is so all-encompassing. It has transformed my life and those of my friends and family, it has wrought Randy McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04707497864911987241noreply@blogger.com41tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19949676.post-14778514863702743092019-05-04T03:58:00.001+00:002019-05-04T04:03:50.343+00:00Some links: immigration, cities, small towns, French Canada, Eurasia, China, Brexit, musicAnother links post!
Skepticism about immigration in many traditional receiving countries appeared. Frances Woolley at the Worthwhile Canadian Initiative took issue with the argument of Andray Domise after an EKOS poll, that Canadians would not know much about the nature of migration flows. The Conversation observed how the rise of Vox in Spain means that country’s language on immigration is setRandy McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04707497864911987241noreply@blogger.com84tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19949676.post-77590810581305725082019-03-20T17:55:00.000+00:002019-03-20T17:55:00.353+00:00Some links: longevity, real estate, migrations, the futureI have been away on vacation in Venice--more on that later--but I am back now.
Old age popped up as a topic in my feed. The Crux considered when human societies began to accumulate large numbers of aged people. Would there have been octogenarians in any Stone Age cultures, for instance? Information is Beautiful, meanwhile, shares an informative infographic analyzing the factors that go into Randy McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04707497864911987241noreply@blogger.com33tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19949676.post-65367577484499422942019-03-01T17:40:00.000+00:002019-05-04T11:46:24.662+00:00Some news links: Montréal & Calcutta migration, Chinese languages, former Soviet Union, borders
La Presse notes that suburbanization proceeds in Montréal, as migration from the island of Montréal to off-island suburbs grows. This is of perhaps particular note in a Québec where demographics, particularly related to language dynamics, have long been a preoccupation, the island of Montréal being more multilingual than its suburbs.
The blog Far Outliers has been posting excerpts from The Epic Randy McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04707497864911987241noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19949676.post-49415355902674649212019-02-20T17:42:00.000+00:002019-02-20T17:42:33.066+00:00Some news links: public art, history, marriage, diaspora, assimilationSome more population-related links popped up over the past week.
CBC Toronto reported on this year’s iteration of Winter Stations. A public art festival held on the Lake Ontario shorefront in the east-end Toronto neighbourhood of The Beaches, Winter Stations this year will be based around the theme of migration.
JSTOR Daily noted how the interracial marriages of serving members of the US Randy McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04707497864911987241noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19949676.post-46581407031864778752019-02-14T16:29:00.000+00:002019-02-14T16:29:28.705+00:00Some news links: history, cities, migration, diasporasI have some links up for today, with an essay to come tomorrow.
JSTOR Daily considers the extent to which the Great Migration of African-Americans was a forced migration, driven not just by poverty but by systemic anti-black violence.
Even as the overall population of Japan continues to decline, the population of Tokyo continues to grow through net migration, Mainichi reports.
This CityLab Randy McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04707497864911987241noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19949676.post-31886169630780689142019-02-05T04:50:00.000+00:002019-02-05T04:55:14.126+00:00Some news links: fertility, population aging, migration, demography is not destiny, EurabiaOver the past week, I've come across some interesting news reports about different trends in different parts of the world.
The Independent noted that the length and severity of the Greek economic crisis means that, for many younger Greeks, the chance to have a family the size they wanted--or the chance to have a family at all--is passing. The Korea Herald, meanwhile, noted that the fertility Randy McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04707497864911987241noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19949676.post-36681460985670043462019-01-27T15:33:00.000+00:002019-01-27T15:33:30.765+00:00Some links from the blogosphereAs a prelude to more substantial posting, I thought I would share with readers some demographics-related links from my readings in the blogosphere.
The blog Far Outliers, concentrating on the author's readings, has been looking at China in recent weeks. Migrations have featured prominently, whether in exploring the history of Russian migration to the Chinese northeast, looking at the Korean Randy McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04707497864911987241noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19949676.post-70702538212979577762018-12-12T04:32:00.000+00:002018-12-12T04:38:52.617+00:00"Simulated Dendrochronology of U.S. Immigration 1790-2016"The blog Information is Beautiful has just now shared the results of the 2018 iteration of the Information is Beautiful Awards, a celebration of "the world's world’s best data-visualisations and infographics." Many of these data-visualizations and infographics deal with demographics, in one way or another. The winner, the video "Simulated Dendrochronology of U.S. Immigration 1790-2016" assembled Randy McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04707497864911987241noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19949676.post-86902654709192633112018-12-04T04:58:00.000+00:002018-12-04T04:58:12.417+00:00Two notes on HIV/AIDS in 2018Early on the evening of the 1st of December in Toronto, on World AIDS Day, I stopped by the AIDS Memorial. Fresh red and white carnations were woven among the panels as citylight gleamed in the background.
Many of the assembly of links I posted this evening over at my personal blog relating to World AIDS Day dealt with how it was being remembered. Others dealt with successful approaches to theRandy McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04707497864911987241noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19949676.post-55599952585187770292018-02-10T04:59:00.001+00:002018-02-10T05:02:29.082+00:00On the unreality of imagining chain migration to be a bad thingI have been paying attention to the world, as best as I can; I have been paying attention to demographics, though sadly not here. (Looking at the posts gathered together in the "Demographics" category at my blog, A Bit More Detail, should give you an idea as to what I've been watching.) I have not, for reasons including my mixed unhappiness and concern and confusion at ongoing trends in American Randy McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04707497864911987241noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19949676.post-86617164200852856742017-10-08T04:11:00.000+00:002017-10-08T04:18:14.975+00:00On the demographic issues of Puerto Rico in an era of exodusI was reminded of my post questioning the viability of Caribbean islands in an era of worsening natural disasters when I began reading reports of the devastation wrought on Puerto Rico by Hurricane Maria.
Hurricane Maria is Puerto Rico’s worst in nearly a century, a double blow as it follows the destructive Hurricane Irma by just two weeks. The costs, both human and financial, have only begun toRandy McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04707497864911987241noreply@blogger.com66tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19949676.post-19082721705685879912017-09-26T03:57:00.003+00:002017-09-26T03:57:43.675+00:00What demographic issues do you think deserve coverage?I know I ask this periodically of our readership, but I remain curious. What population-issues do you think should be covered, here or elsewhere? Are there particular regions or particular themes you would like explored?
(I can promise a post on Puerto Rico for tomorrow. More to come after that, too.)Randy McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04707497864911987241noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19949676.post-62885456801702825272017-09-21T04:00:00.000+00:002017-09-21T04:02:18.105+00:00On a devastating hurricane season in the Caribbean and migration futuresHurricane season this year in the Caribbean is shaping up to be terrible. I had not quite realized how terrible, the imagery of devastation aside, until I learned that the devastation wrought by Hurricane Irma had forced the evacuation of Barbuda, smaller of the two major islands which make up the country of Antigua and Barbuda. The island has been emptied of its population of some eighteen Randy McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04707497864911987241noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19949676.post-69222463892283883562017-09-12T03:59:00.001+00:002017-09-12T04:00:27.031+00:00On the labour shortages of Sarufutsu, HokkaidoLate last month, I came across Masahiro Hidaka's Bloomberg article "Japan's Richest Village Can't Find Workers for Its Factory". In this article, Hidaka describes how the village of Sarufutsu, northernmost village in Hokkaido and thus all Japan, is facing a shutdown of its hugely profitable scallops fishery because it is literally running out of workers.
The village -- which is closer to the Randy McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04707497864911987241noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19949676.post-68280827100816898482017-08-29T03:30:00.000+00:002017-08-29T03:30:17.081+00:00Five links about refugees and migrations: border debris, Cornwall's camps, and online fraudEarlier today at my blog, I linked to an article published earlier this month in the Toronto Star. In "Fleeing to Canada, asylum seekers’ old lives revealed in the scraps found along New York’s Roxham Rd.", journalist Allan Woods looked at the debris discarded by refugee claimants fleeing potential threats in Trump's America.
There were airplane boarding passes and luggage tags from Haiti, Randy McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04707497864911987241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19949676.post-24722515150179524372017-07-05T03:56:00.000+00:002017-07-05T04:04:56.010+00:00On the recent fall in American fertility rates: Is this American convergence?The Washington Post was just one of many news sources to note a recent report provided by the National Vital Statistics System of the Centers for Disease Control, "Births: Provisional Data for 2016" (PDF format). This report noted that not only had the absolute number of births fallen, but that the total fertility rate in 2016 was the lowest it had been in more than three decades: "The 2016 totalRandy McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04707497864911987241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19949676.post-955701727497724462017-02-12T04:55:00.000+00:002017-02-12T05:00:11.235+00:00Hans Rosling, in memoriamI was shocked and saddened to learn of the death earlier this week of Gapminder's Hans Rosling. 68 was too young for anyone, certainly too young for someone so dedicated to helping the world know itself through the truth. Scott Gilmore's article in MacLean's is one I recommend.
From Davos, to the White House, to the offices of the World Bank, Rosling could be found tirelessly preaching the Randy McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04707497864911987241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19949676.post-72261861510938259122017-01-01T00:33:00.001+00:002017-01-01T00:33:57.905+00:00On Max Roser's A history of global living conditions in 5 charts and the futureSome days ago, I saw shared on Facebook an essay, Max Roser's "A history of global living conditions in 5 charts" at the Our World in Data project. In this essay, Roser makes the argument--contrary to the zeigeist of 2016--that, in fact, in the longue durée things have been getting decidedly better for people. Extreme poverty and premature mortality have faded, rates of literacy and education Randy McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04707497864911987241noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19949676.post-2213984024244860692016-12-19T15:43:00.001+00:002016-12-19T15:44:33.379+00:00Nature's Amy MaxMen on the achievements of Gapminder's Hans RoslingIn January 2011 and June 2013, I linked to two videos by Swedish statistician and popularizer Hans Rosling demonstrating different demographic trends. Today, via 3 Quarks Daily, I came across Amy Maxmen's excellent long-format article on Rosling and his accomplishments, "Three minutes with Hans Rosling will change your mind about the world". It does a great job of explaining just what Rosling, Randy McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04707497864911987241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19949676.post-64700847137676665262016-12-10T00:54:00.001+00:002016-12-10T00:55:28.667+00:00"Census still vulnerable to political meddling, says former chief"Canadian newsmagazine MacLean's hosts Jordan Press' Canadian Press article "Census still vulnerable to political meddling, says former chief". Wayne Smith warns that the Canadian census is still vulnerable to political interference, even with new legislation.
The federal government’s bid to protect Statistics Canada from political interference has a significant oversight that exposes the census Randy McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04707497864911987241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19949676.post-54967470457213760532016-12-03T03:38:00.001+00:002016-12-03T03:38:25.351+00:00The Globe and Mail on the Syrian refugee population in CanadaIn The Globe and Mail, journalist Joe Friesen's data-driven analysis "Syrian exodus to Canada: One year later, a look at who the refugees are and where they went" takes a look at how the tens of thousands of Syrian refugees resettled Canada are doing.
The initial surge of arrivals was fuelled primarily by privately sponsored refugees whose applications were already in the pipeline under the Randy McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04707497864911987241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19949676.post-18167162361792773012016-11-29T04:58:00.000+00:002016-12-03T03:34:18.915+00:00A brief note on the demographic prospects of CubaOver at my blog this evening, I posted an article reflecting on the evidence for substantial economic decline in Cuba under Castro, not only decline relative to its peers (southern and central Europe, high-income Latin America) but even, at times, of absolute decline. A country that had severe problems of inequality went on to acquire worse problems. Of all the economies in the world to be Randy McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04707497864911987241noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19949676.post-35493293091606328362016-11-24T04:56:00.000+00:002016-11-24T04:56:07.668+00:00What demographic issues do you think matter right now?Are there particular trends you are interested in? Are there particular regions you would like to read about? Would analyses of the present here, try to predict the future, aim for a better understanding of the past? Would you like to be the one doing the analyzing?
Discuss, please.Randy McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04707497864911987241noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19949676.post-68835421301963174732016-11-16T04:58:00.000+00:002016-11-24T04:56:31.354+00:00A brief observation on the 2016 US presidential electionI've been following the aftermath of the 2016 presidential elections in the United States over at my blog with no small amount of concern. I acknowledge, in the interest of openness, that I would have personally preferred an election victory by Clinton over Trump, rooted in my belief that she would be better equipped to handle issues--including demographic ones--better than Trump. Still, it is Randy McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04707497864911987241noreply@blogger.com0