Fewer Men, More Babies
Fewer Men, More Babies

Author: Timothy T. Schwartz

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 9780739128671

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Based on original ethnographic research, this book demonstrates how the process unfolds in contemporary rural Haiti; how intensive work regimes make children necessary; how this necessity conditions sexual behavior, gender relations, and kinship; and why, despite massive contraceptive campaigns, birth rates in rural Haiti continue to be among the highest in the world. Timothy T. Schwartz offers a solution to a demographic paradox that some of the most prominent sociologists and demographers of the twentieth century noted but were never able to explain: among impoverished small farmers, when more men are absent due to male wage migration, the women remaining behind give birth to more, not fewer, babies. Book jacket.

Population Growth and Urbanization in Latin America
Population Growth and Urbanization in Latin America

Author: John Melton Hunter

Publisher: Schenkman Books

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13:

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Conference papers, case studies of population growth, rural migration and urbanization in the Caribbean and Latin America - discusses the impact of social change; includes projections to 2000; studies agrarian reform and farming development project in Mexico, internal migration and rural development in Honduras, population dynamics in Peru and St Vincent and the Grenadines, regional development in Brazil, the Lebanese Arab community (immigration) in Colombia; ends with a philosophical note on development policy. Graphs, maps, organigram, references, statistical tables.