What kind of theory for what kind of population geography?

Graham, Elspeth

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“…A considerable portion of this research has considered the methods that have been used to construct understandings about rural populations. In particular, attention has been given to documenting the limitations of traditional quantitative approaches to population studies (Brown and Knopp, 2006;Cadwell, 1997;Coale and Watkins, 1986;Graham, 1999Graham, , 2000Sivley, 2004). Critiques of quantitative approaches to understanding population change have questioned the assumptions researchers make when assigning causation to observed relationships in the data and the spatial homogeneity of observed trends.…”

Section: Constructing Ageing Populations: Making the Case For A Mixedmentioning

confidence: 99%

On constructing ageing rural populations: ‘Capturing’ the grey nomad

Davies

2011

Journal of Rural Studies

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Section: Constructing Ageing Populations: Making the Case For A Mixedmentioning

confidence: 99%

On constructing ageing rural populations: ‘Capturing’ the grey nomad

Davies

2011

Journal of Rural Studies

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“…In the 1990s a re-emphasis was given to theoretical development within the field of population geography; for example, Halfacree and Boyle's (1993) study focused on the biographical approach, and White and Jackson (1995) called for a 're-theorisation of population geography'. More recently Graham (2000) suggested returning to demographic transition theory and other 'layers of theory' that underpin population research. Findlay (2004: 187) sums up how 'the challenge facing population geographers at the start of the 1990s was to engage with a wider theorisation of their work… the advances that have been achieved in these realms have been quite small, but very valuable'.…”

Section: Theorising the Untheorisedmentioning

confidence: 99%

Asylum‐seekers and refugees: a structuration theory analysis of their experiences in the UK

Healey

2006

Population Space and Place

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Asylum seekers and refugees: a structuration theory analysis of their experiences in the UK AbstractMuch of the literature on asylum seekers and refugees tends to be atheoretical. This article uses ideas from Giddens' structuration theory as a conceptual framework to analyse the voices of a group of asylum seekers and refugees. The empirical database consists of semistructured interviews with 18 asylum seekers and refugees living in the UK from a wide range of countries, including Ethiopia, Kenya, Poland, Somalia, and the Yemen. The study shows that the experiences of asylum seekers and refugees are impacted by both structural and individual agency factors. The former, it is argued, consist of public and political reaction towards the increase in the number of asylum applications, while the latter include asylum seeker and refugee experiences of specific places and people which can create social networks. Structural factors had the greatest impact upon the integration of the participants into the host society. The nature of the experiences of asylum seekers and refugees can influence the way they feel about their position in the host society. For example, negative experiences of the UK can reduce their sense of security in the society whereas positive experiences can increase their feelings of comfort. Structuration theory conceptualises how asylum seekers and refugees utilise coping strategies to raise their comfort level in the host country.

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“…McKendrick (1999) has argued that methodology itself is epistemologically positioned, and that a mixing of quantitative and qualitative methods could highlight this positionality and suggest ways of triangulating around it. Graham (1999) (Graham, 2000). Even if all practice of demography was 'theoretical', how should one address this?…”

Section: Foucault's Population Geographies 149mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As such, empiricism must be challenged not just in methodology, but also in openness to considering deeper structures and mechanisms. Graham also pushed towards not just philosophical but also political considerations in her criticism of the Eurocentrism of transition theory and the need for a critical population geography (Graham, 2000). This argument has perhaps been made most forcefully in Findlay's discussion of population geography in the twenty-first century (Findlay, 2003).…”

Section: Foucault's Population Geographies 149mentioning

confidence: 99%