Overview
Current social and economic changes in Canada raise many questions. Will Canada's education system be able to maintain its competitiveness when faced with increasing globalization? Will the growing numbers of immigrants and their children be successfully integrated? How will Canada's social institutions respond to a rapidly aging population? The Changing Canadian Population assembles answers from many of Canada's most distinguished scholars, who reassess the current state of society and Canada's preparedness for the challenges of the future.
Full Product Details
Author: Barry Edmonston ,
Eric Fong ,
Eric Fong ,
Eric Fong
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 3.00cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.680kg
ISBN: 9780773537934
ISBN 10: 0773537937
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 10 January 2011
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Awaiting stock
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Reviews
The editors deserve praise for producing a fairly comprehensive and well-integrated volume and concise introductory overview of its contents. An indispensable resource for policy makers, researchers, and students alike. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Choice
The editors deserve praise for producing a fairly comprehensive and well-integrated volume and concise introductory overview of its contents. An indispensable resource for policy makers, researchers, and students alike. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Choice With its ethnically diverse, ageing and geographically distributed population, Canada provides a fascinating case study of contemporary population issues. The Changing Canadian Population is a timely intervention in the field. Drawing together contributions from some of Canada's leading demographers, sociologists and economists, Barry Edmonston and Eric Fong have edited an excellent collection of chapters on topics as diverse as population growth, income, ageing, labour market outcomes, immigration, fertility, urbanization, patterns of cohabitation and ethnicity. British Journal of Canadian Studies
With its ethnically diverse, ageing and geographically distributed population, Canada provides a fascinating case study of contemporary population issues. The Changing Canadian Population is a timely intervention in the field. Drawing together contributions from some of Canada's leading demographers, sociologists and economists, Barry Edmonston and Eric Fong have edited an excellent collection of chapters on topics as diverse as population growth, income, ageing, labour market outcomes, immigration, fertility, urbanization, patterns of cohabitation and ethnicity. - Anna Boucher, British Journal of Canadian Studies, Autumn 2012
Author Information
Barry Edmonston is a research professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Victoria. Eric Fong is a professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto.
