The 4^th International Conference on Population Geographies, 10-13 July 2007, Hong Kong

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME: Session A2-A8

2A. Population Change and Policy (1) (11 July 2007)

Chair: Paul NORMAN, U. of Leeds

11:10 Rethinking Populations for Use in Policy [ppt]

Philip REES, U. of Leeds, UK

11:30 Effects of Budgetary Policies on Population Migration - A Taiwanese Complexity Model Approach [ppt]

Minshen HSUEH and Shih-Kung LAI, National Taipei U., Taiwan

11:50 Adding Census Geographical Detail into the British Crime Survey for Modelling Crime [ppt]

Charatdao KONGMUANG¹, Graham P. CLARKE² and Andrew J. EVANS²,

¹Naresuan U., Thailand, ²U. of Leeds, UK

12:10 The Vulnerability of Student Populations and a New-Wave of Studentification? [ppt]

Darren P. SMITH, U. of Brighton, UK

3A. Population Change and Policy (2) (11 July 2007)

Chair: Philip REES, U. of Leeds

14:00 The Micro-geography of UK Demographic Change 1991-2001 [ppt]

Paul NORMAN, U. of Leeds, UK

14:20 Family, Location and Housing Quality. Does Residential Choice Run Within Families? [ppt]

Annika SMITS and Clara H. MULDER, U. of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

14:40 Spatial Interaction: An Audit of Population Flow Data in the UK [ppt]

John STILLWELL, Oliver DUKE-WILLIAMS and Adam DENNETT

School of Geography, U. of Leeds, UK

15:00 Family Migration and Women’s Labour Market Status in Britain:
The Effects of State Dependence and Geography [ppt]

Paul BOYLE¹, Zhiqiang FENG¹ and Vernon GAYLE², ¹U. of St Andrews, ²U. of Stirling, UK

15:20 Localized Spatial Factors for Economic Growth - Assessing the Endogenous Growth Hypothesis [ppt]

Wenjuan LI, Einar HOLM and Urban LINDGREN, Umeå U., Sweden

15:40 New Measure for Labor Market Assessment - Going beyond the Spatial Mismatch Hypothesis [ppt]

John ÖSTH, Uppsala U., Sweden

4A. International Migration (11 July 2007)

Chair: James FORREST, Macquarie U., Australia

16:30 A Real Change in US-Mexico Migration Patterns? Evidence from Four Comparative Mexican Surveys [ppt]

Cristóbal MENDOZA, U. of Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa, Mexico

16:50 Rediscovering the Japanese Identity Abroad: The Experience of Japanese Women Working in Singapore [ppt]

Takashi NAKAZAWA, Oita U., Japan

17:10 Chinese Singaporean Migrants: Transnational Capital Conversions [ppt]

Caroline PLÜSS, Nanyang Technological U., Singapore

17:30 The Chinese in Sydney, Australia: The Intergenerational Experience of a Fragmented Population Group in Australia’s Main Immigrant-receiving City

James FORREST, Macquarie U., Australia

17:50 The Impact of Immigration on the Population Structure of Greece [ppt]

Byron KOTZAMANIS¹ and Anastasia KOSTAKI², ¹U. of Thessaly, ²Athens U. of Economics and Business, Greece

18:10 The Settlement Patterns of the Foreign Population in Italy at the Start of the 21^st Century [ppt]

Corrado BONIFAZI¹, Frank HEINS¹ and Salvatore STROZZA², ¹Institute of Research on Population and Social Policies, ²U. of Naples “Federico II”, Italy

5A. Internal Migration (1) (12 July 2007)

Chair: Paul BOYLE, U. of St Andrews

8:40 Female Labour Migration from Okinawa to Central Japan: Current Conditions and Future Prospects [ppt]

Michiyo YOSHIDA, Setsunan U., Japan

9:00 Temporal Continuity in Return Migration in Australia 1976-2001 [ppt]

Angélique PARR¹, Dominic BROWN¹, Martin BELL¹ and Tom WILSON², ¹U. of Queensland, ²Charles Darwin U., Australia

9:20 Who Are the Australian Retirement Migrants? A Regression Analysis of Domestic Migrant’s Socio-Demographic Characteristics [ppt]

Nikola SANDER, Martin BELL and Dominic BROWN, U. of Queensland, Australia

9:40 Dynamic Flows on Vulnerable Labour Markets [ppt]

Charlotta HEDBERG, Stockholm U., Sweden

10:00 Peri-urbanization and the Social and Spatial Segregation of Migrants in China [pdf]

Shenghe LIU, Jing HUANG and Tian CHEN, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

6A. Internal Migration (2) (12 July 2007)

Chair: Martin BELL, U. of Queensland

11:10 Patterns of Internal Migration in Lao P.D.R. 1995-2005 [ppt]

Gunnar MALMBERG¹, Aina TOLLEFSEN¹ and Kabmanivanh PHOUXAY^1,2, ¹Umeå U., Sweden, ²National U. of Laos, Laos

11:30 Trends in Interregional Migration and Commuting in Sweden 1970-2001 [ppt]

Emma LUNDHOLM, Umeå U., Sweden

11:50 The Determinants of Temporary Population Mobility in Australia: A Poisson Regression Analysis [ppt]

Charles-Edwards ELIN, Dominic BROWN and Martin BELL, The U. of Queensland, Australia

7A. Fertility and Children (12 July 2007)

Chair: Darren P. SMITH, U. of Brighton

14:00 Modernisation Theories and Sex Ratios at Birth in Asia: The Case of Singapore

Elspeth GRAHAM, U. of St Andrews, UK

14:20 Replacement Migration in Low Fertility Populations: Shanghai, Hong Kong and Taiwan

Edward Jow-Ching TU¹ and Xin YUAN², ¹Hong Kong U. of Science & Technology, Hong Kong, ²Nankai U., China

14:40 One Country Two Systems: Below Replacement Fertility and Rural-urban Migration in China

Xin YUAN¹ and Zhongwei ZHAO², ¹Nankai U., China, ²The Australian National U., Australia

15:00 Understanding Populations of Children and Youth: Embodied Social Capital [ppt]

Louise HOLT, U. of Reading, UK

15:20 Household Registration Status – Disadvantaged Migrant Children in the Big City [ppt]

Kim Dung HOANG¹ and Nguyen Dinh THIET², ¹Research Center for Community Health and Ecological Environment, ²Commissions for Population Family and Children in Vietnam, Vietnam

8A. Mortality and Health

Chair: Alina POTRYKOWSKA, The Governmental Population Council of Poland

16:30 Marital Status, Health and Mortality: The Role of Living Arrangements [ppt]

Peteke FEIJTEN, Paul BOYLE and Gillian RAAB, U. of St Andrews, UK

16:50 The Mobility of CATTs

Daniel EXETER¹ and Paul BOYLE², ¹U. of Auckland, New Zealand, ²U. of St Andrews, UK

17:10 Life History Analysis of the Relationship between Migration and

Health Status: Study of Adult Population of Indonesia [ppt]

Salut MUHIDIN, Dominic BROWN and Martin BELL, The U. of Queensland, Australia

17:30 Living Alone and Mental Health: A Longitudinal Study [ppt]

Zhiqiang FENG, Peteke FEIJTEN and Paul BOYLE, U. of St Andrews, UK