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

 

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME: Session D2-D8

 

2D. IGU Commission on Population and Vulnerability Session: Demography and the Vulnerability of Populations (1) (11 July 2007)

Organizers: Daniel HOGAN (State U. of Campinas) and Alina POTRYKOWSKA (The Governmental Population Council of Poland)

Chair: Daniel HOGAN, State U. of Campinas

 

11:10 Consequences of 'Environmental Refugees': Towards a Conceptual Framework [ppt]

Alistair GEDDES  and Allan FINDLAY, U. of Dundee, UK

 

11:30 Hazards and Vulnerability for the Population on the Brazilian Coast: Sea Level Rise and Reasons for Concern [ppt]

Luiz do CARMO and Andrea Ferraz YOUNG, State U. of Campinas, Brazil

 

11:50 Geographies of Vulnerability and Resilience: Legacies of the Art and Artists of the Carrolup Native Settlement, Western Australia [ppt]

Ellen Percy KRALY, Colgate U., USA

 

12:10 Vulnerability at stages in the migration process: departure, arrival, settlement and integration [ppt]

Eduardo MARANDOLA Jr. and Daniel HOGAN, Campinas State U., Brazil

 

3D. IGU Commission on Population and Vulnerability Session: Demography and the Vulnerability of Populations (2) (11 July 2007)

Organizers: Daniel HOGAN (State U. of Campinas) and Alina POTRYKOWSKA (The Governmental Population Council of Poland)

Chair: Deborah SPORTON, U. of Sheffield

 

14:00 Population, Mobility and Environment: The Vulnerability of Commuters in Metropolitan Areas [ppt]

Daniel HOGAN, State U. of Campinas, Brazil

 

14:20 City-ward Migration, Vulnerability and Adaptability of Internal Migrant Population in Fiji Islands

Manoranjan MOHANTY, U. of the South Pacific, Fiji

 

14:40 Vulnerability of Irregular Migrants in Germany

Rainer WEHRHAHN and Ina von SCHLICHTING, U. Kiel, Germany

 

15:00 Making the New Urban Working Class in East Asian Global City: the Case of Korean-Chinese Migrant Casual Labourers in Seoul's Service Sector Industry

Anna Myunghee KIM, Oxford U., UK

 

 

15:20 The Impact of Migration on Health and Social Conditions in Nicaragua [ppt]

Cecilia GUSTAFSSON, Umeå U., Sweden

 

15:40 The Vulnerability of International Migrants in Rural Areas of Udon Thani and Khon Kaen,Thailand [ppt]

Sukanya AIMIMTHAM, Khon Kaen U., Thailand

 

4D. IGU Commission on Population and Vulnerability Session: Demography and the Vulnerability of Populations (3) (11 July 2007)

Organizers: Daniel HOGAN (State U. of Campinas) and Alina POTRYKOWSKA (Polish Academy of Sciences)

Chair: Paul GANS, U. of Mannheim

 

16:30 Vulnerable Women and Protective Men: Fear Strategies in the Swedish Town of Umeå [ppt]

Linda SANDBERG, Umeå U., Sweden

 

16:50 HIV/AIDS, Livelihoods and Elderly Vulnerabilities in the Global ‘South’ [pdf]

Deborah SPORTON, U. of Sheffield, UK

 

17:10 The Future of Japanese Society and the Vulnerabilities of Population Decline [ppt]

Michael SUTTON, Ritsumeikan U., Japan

 

17:30 Regional Patterns of Population Ageing in Poland - Vulnerable Areas [ppt]

Slawomir KUREK, Pedagogical U. of Krakow, Poland

 

17:50 Recent Development of Private Housing Markets and its Consequences for Elderly Owners of Real Estate in the Rural Periphery of West Germany: An Example of a Shrinking Region in Bavaria [ppt]

Harald STANDL, Bamberg U., Germany

 

5D. IGU Commission on Global Change and Human Mobility: Globility Session (1) (12 July 2007)

Organizers: Armando MONTANARI (Rome U. “La Sapienza”) and Yoshitaka ISHIKAWA (Kyoto U.)

Chair: Armando MONTANARI, Rome U. “La Sapienza”

 

8:40 The 1995-2000 Interprefectural Migration of Foreign Residents of Japan: Salient Features and Multivariate Explanation [ppt]

Yoshitaka ISHIKAWA1 and Kao-Lee LIAW2, 1Kyoto U., Japan, 2McMaster U., Canada

 

9:00 Korean Entrepreneurs in Japan: A Case Study of Ikuno Area, Osaka [ppt]

Hyunmi JO, Kyungpook National U., Korea

 

9:20 International Migration and Filipino Female Entertainers to Japan: Philippine Pubs in Sakae Walk Streets, Nagoya city [ppt]

Ryogo ABE, Nagoya U., Japan

 

9:40 Post-war Immigration from Japan to Canada: Its Reasons, Characteristics and Meanings [ppt]

Natsuko CHUBACHI, Queen’s U., Canada

 

10:00 The Role of Recruit Agencies for Working Japanese Women in Singapore [ppt]

Yoshimichi YUI, Hiroshima U., Japan

 

10:20 International Marriage Migration from Rural Thailand to Germany [ppt]

Satoshi NAKAGAWA1 and Sekson YONGVANIT2, 1Kobe U., Japan, 2Khon Kaen U., Thailand

 

6D. IGU Commission on Global Change and Human Mobility: Globility Session (2) (12 July 2007)

Organizers: Armando MONTANARI (Rome U. “La Sapienza”) and Yoshitaka ISHIKAWA (Kyoto U.)

Chair: Yoshitaka ISHIKAWA, Kyoto U.

 

11:10 Population Attractiveness of Cities: Popular Theories Re-examined

Boris A. PORTNOV, U. of Haifa, Israel

 

11:30 Settlements: Human Mobility and Local Development

Armando MONTANARI1 and Barbara STANISCIA2, 1Rome U. “La Sapienza”, 2U. G. d’Annunzio Chieti-Pescara, Italy

 

11:50 Family Selection of Migrant(s) and FM Interactions

Lei ZHANG and Zhongdong MA, Hong Kong U. of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

 

12:10 New Forms of Labour Mobility in Latvia

Zaiga KRISJANE, U. of Latvia, Latvia

 

7D. IGU Commission on Global Change and Human Mobility: Globility Session (3) (12 July 2007)

Organizers: Armando MONTANARI (Rome U. “La Sapienza”) and Yoshitaka ISHIKAWA (Kyoto U.)

Chair: Armando MONTANARI, Rome U. “La Sapienza”

 

14:00 Foreign Presence and Migration of Women in the Chieti-Pescara Metropolitan Area

Barbara STANISCIA1 and Armando MONTANARI2, 1U. G.d’Annunzio Chieti-Pescara, 2Rome U. “La Sapienza” Roma, Italy

 

14:20 Isolated or Connected: an Economic and Social View on Impacts of Children’s Migration on Elderly Care [ppt]

Zhongdong MA and Guowei ZHOU, Hong Kong U. of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

 

14:40 The New Demographic and Social Challenges in Spain: the Aging Process and the Immigration [pdf]

Josefina DOMÍNGUEZ MUJICA and Raquel GUERRA TALAVERA, U. of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

 

15:00 The Mobility of Population and the Residential Structure in an Area with Underprivileged Working Conditions in China: A Case Study of Fushun City, Liaoning Province [ppt]

Yasuhisa ABE1 and Nan ZHENG2, 1Hiroshima Kokusai Gakuin U., 2Nagoya U., Japan

 

15:20 Migration Process in Small Towns of Latvia [ppt]

Maris BERZINS, U. of Latvia, Latvia

 

8D. Population and Environment (12 July 2007)

Chair: Sukanya AIMIMTHAM, Khon Kaen U.

 

16:30 Demographic Impacts on Environmental Security: A Conceptual View [ppt]

Frank SWIACZNY, Federal Institute for Population Research, Germany

 

17:30 Vulnerability on the Use of the City Territory by the Tourists [ppt]

Marilia STEINBERGER and Neio CAMPOS, U. of Brasília, Brazil