Research Handbook on Population Heterogeneities

This comprehensive Research Handbook explores how population heterogeneity affects, and is affected by, demographic dynamics of fertility, mortality and migration. Leading experts offer a state-of-the-art overview, highlighting the most pressing challenges and critical developments, to deepen understanding and inspire policy reform. Chapters highlight how increasing heterogeneity, across multiple dimensions, including education, family structure, migration history, health and gender identity, impacts wider societal and economic changes. Using diverse case studies, they show how divisions matter as they enable organization around identities and widen distances between groups. They demonstrate how demographic shifts, population aging, over-population, depopulation, or migration, critically influence the chances of a prosperous future for humanity. The Handbook also recommends avenues for future study, including obstacles facing non-heterosexual partnering and parenthood and integrated policies combining public security and social inclusion. The Research Handbook on Population Heterogeneities is an invaluable resource for scholars and students of development studies, human geography, sustainable development and sociology. Policymakers focusing on social demography issues will also benefit from its astute analysis and practical suggestions.