Migration and Population Replacement

Effect of Immigration on the Canadian Population: Replacement Migration?

Immigration has a substantial influence on the size and growth of the population and the labour force, and also considerable influence on the socio-cultural composition, as seen through ethnicity, language and visible minority status. Given the uneven distribution of immigrants over regions, and their subsequent re-migration patterns, immigration accentuates the growth of the largest cities. Im...

Migration , Population Change , and the Rural Environment MIGRATION , POPULATION CHANGE , AND THE RURAL ENVIRONMENT

The movement of human populations across the planet has character ized human societies throughout history. Historically, resource scarcity or depletion has induced this movement. In recent years, rural populations and their relationships to their environment are again attracting growing interest, especially in connection with population change and particularly migration. Rural areas contain mos...

‘Low’ Fertility and Population Replacement in Scotland

It has been argued that Scotland faces population ageing and decline that will have potentially serious economic and social consequences, and that the origin of these process lie in its low and declining fertility rates. This paper argues that low fertility is not the problem it is purported to be, and that pro-natalism is both undesirable and unnecessary. It suggests that low fertility and pop...

Reversing Wolbachia-based population replacement.

Genetic manipulation that reduces the competence of a vector population to transmit pathogens would provide a useful tool to complement current control strategies, which are based primarily on the reduction/exclusion of vector populations and the prophylactic/therapeutic treatment of the vertebrate host population. Genetic drive is an important component of vector population replacement strateg...

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