Product Description: A well-known and well-respected author provides this comprehensive yet accessible text that introduces students to population issues, concepts and theories. While keeping larger population issues in perspective, the text closely examines key factors in population processes, from fertility and mortality rates to agricultural production and urbanization...read more

'Compilation of 15 articles of uneven quality and length from 1987 Binational Symposium on Population Issues along the US-Mexico Border held in Tijuana. Includes topics such as: border marriages, fertility on both sides of the border, emigration, infant mortality and family planning in northern Mexico, and economic impact of undocumented migrants in the US Southwest'--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/