{"title":"Individual and Spatial Determinants of Mortality During the Covid-19 Pandemic: The Case of Belgium in 2020","authors":"Mélanie Bourguignon, Joan Damiens, Yoann Doignon, Thierry Eggerickx, Audrey Plavsic, Jean-Paul Sanderson, Aurélie Bertrand","doi":"10.1002/psp.70019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70019","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The Covid-19 pandemic marked the year 2020. In Belgium, it led to a doubling in deaths, mainly grouped into two periods. This article aims to compare the relative importance of predictors and individual and spatial determinants of mortality during these two waves to an equivalent non-pandemic period and to identify whether and to what extent the pandemic has altered the sociodemographic patterns of conventional mortality. The analyses relate to all-cause mortality during the two waves of Covid-19 and their equivalent in 2019. They are based on matching individual and exhaustive data from the Belgian National Register with tax and population census data. A multi-level approach combining individual and spatial determinants was adopted. Mortality patterns during and outside the pandemic are very similar. As in 2019, age, sex, and household composition significantly determine the individual risk of dying, with a higher risk of death among the oldest people, men, and residents of collective households. However, their risk of death increases during the Covid period, especially in the 65–79 age group. Spatial information is no more significant in 2020 than in 2019. However, a higher risk of death is observed when the local excess mortality index or the communal proportions of single-person households or disadvantaged people increase. While the Covid pandemic did not fundamentally alter conventional mortality patterns, it did amplify some of the pre-existing differences in mortality.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"31 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143645680","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Temporal and Cross-Country (Dis)Similarities in Transition to Adulthood: A Comparison of 23 European Countries","authors":"Zafer Buyukkececi","doi":"10.1002/psp.70012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70012","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In recent decades, the transition to adulthood in Europe has received significant research interest. This study uses data from two rounds of the European Social Survey (ESS) to explore longitudinal work and family life courses through a multichannel sequence analysis. This method examines individual work and family events within a holistic context, allowing for a comprehensive understanding of how these events interrelate and quantifies similarities and differences in life courses across various indicators of adulthood. To further understand these transitions, the study employs dyadic regressions to identify both temporal and cross-country similarities and differences. It also introduces a novel approach that evaluates life courses based on substantive patterns and quantitative differences. The findings reveal that individuals from the same country and cohort generally exhibit more similar life courses. Postwar cohorts show the highest level of similarity in their life courses, while younger generations exhibit greater dissimilarity with other cohorts. Yet, within these younger cohorts, there is a trend towards increased homogeneity, indicating a re-standardization of life courses. The study also highlights regional variations: Southern European countries and those with liberal welfare systems show the most pronounced differences in the transition to adulthood, while Central and Eastern European countries experience the least de-standardization. Additionally, new patterns of transitioning to adulthood appear to be spreading from Northern Europe to other regions.</p>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"31 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/psp.70012","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143595583","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Contributions of Residential and Income Mobility in Different Life Stages to Increasing Low-Income Rates in Suburban Neighbourhoods","authors":"Timo M. Kauppinen, Aleksi Karhula","doi":"10.1002/psp.70020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70020","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Socioeconomic residential segregation has been increasing in many cities in Europe and globally. Selective migration is usually considered the main mechanism shaping the socioeconomic trajectories of neighbourhoods, although some studies have suggested it to have only minor contributions. However, it is worth looking, how persons in different life course situations affect these trajectories by their moves or income mobility. Living in a low-income neighbourhood may be related to a ‘transit stage’ in the life course, for example in the beginning of the work, housing, and family careers, and if the declining income level in the neighbourhood is related to such situations, it may be less indicative of problems in the area. This study explores how selective migration and income mobility have contributed to the income trajectories of suburban neighbourhoods experiencing downward trend in their income level in Finnish cities between 1997 and 2019, and how these contributions are related to different life course situations. We use individual-level register-based panel data covering the complete population of Finland and decomposition methods. Our findings emphasise the central role of selective migration in the increasing low-income rates. Particularly the residential mobility of young childless adults, commonly students, has increased the low-income populations. However, the main difference to other types of neighbourhoods is the net loss of employed middle-aged Finnish-born non-low-income residents. This calls for policies improving the attractiveness of these neighbourhoods for the non-low-income population.</p>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"31 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/psp.70020","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143595582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Geographies of Rural Migrants' Belonging During COVID-19 in Urban China","authors":"Chen Li, Shuangshuang Tang, Xin Li","doi":"10.1002/psp.70021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70021","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>COVID-19 has significantly affected vulnerable populations worldwide, particularly rural migrants in urban China, who have suffered immensely during the pandemic. This article explores how COVID-19 has influenced rural migrants' sense of belonging across various geographical scales. It posits that the pandemic has acted as an external force that reshaped governance, institutional arrangements and government policies, resulting in a new socio-spatial order that has reconstructed rural migrants' experiences of belonging. In Nanjing, the article finds that rural migrants diminished sense of belonging to the city is linked to strict COVID-19 measures, inadequate government support and ongoing institutional discrimination. Conversely, their sense of belonging to neighbourhood communities has improved due to increased opportunities for participation in community governance and activities. Additionally, their sense of belonging within their dwellings is influenced by personal experiences and interactions. Ultimately, this article enhances our understanding of the geographies and politics of belonging, offering insights into how urban China's unique governance structure during COVID-19 has impacted rural migrants' sense of belonging and civil rights.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"31 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143595584","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anna Maria Santiago, Lena Magnusson Turner, Hans Christian Sandlie
{"title":"Spatial Opportunity Structures and Final Home Leaving Among Young Adults in Norway","authors":"Anna Maria Santiago, Lena Magnusson Turner, Hans Christian Sandlie","doi":"10.1002/psp.70018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70018","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Previous studies in Norway found that leaving the parental home in young adulthood was facilitated by a generous welfare state coupled with cultural and normative values emphasising early independence and residential stability. Nonetheless, little is known about how spatial opportunity structures in Norway have contributed to recent patterns of home leaving. Using longitudinal register data for the period between 1991 and 2018, we assess the influence of spatial opportunity structures on final home leaving for four cohorts of Norwegian young adults (<i>N</i> = 216,778). For most Norwegian young adults, median age at final home leaving was 23 years but varied by gender, country background, and centrality level. Accelerated Failure Time models found predicted median age at final home leaving to be 12−18 months younger for women across all country background groups and reduced for young adults whose independent households were established in either more rural or urban municipalities in Norway. Our methodological approach clearly reveals the importance of interregional differences in spatial opportunity structures on patterns of home leaving. Future research should ascertain what the spatial drivers are that facilitate or delay independent household formation, which should be of interest to policymakers trying to promote a national ethos of equality of opportunity.</p>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"31 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/psp.70018","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143581605","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Negotiating Infrastructural Injustice in Poverty Alleviation Resettlement: The Case of the Southern Shaanxi Migration Project in China","authors":"Yangyang Li, Zhongzhi He, Xin (Cathy) Jin, Zhenbin Zhao, Xiaoyong Li, Jian Zhang, Yang Gao","doi":"10.1002/psp.70006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70006","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study responds to recent calls in migration research for a thorough investigation of infrastructural injustice in non-Western contexts. Using the southern Shaanxi migration project as a case study, the largest state-led population relocation project since the foundation of the People's Republic of China, we highlight three main findings. First, while the project has successfully contributed to ecological restoration and poverty alleviation, it has inadvertently created a passive form of migration infrastructural injustice, resulting in structural fragmentation of migrant families, dysfunctional family dynamics, and unequal intergenerational relationships. Second, although middle-aged and older-adult migrants and female migrants are the most vulnerable to infrastructural injustice, they demonstrate infrastructural agency by negotiating and responding to injustices through relational and collectivist approaches. Third, Confucian ethics function as a unique mediator, simultaneously complicit in infrastructural injustice yet capable of mitigating its effects by regulating and reshaping the nature of infrastructure. Finally, we call for situating infrastructural injustice within different cultural paradigms to demonstrate subjective responses that may contradict objective perceptions.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"31 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143555022","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mediating Proximate Care in Transnational Families in Sweden and the UK: Language Practices and Institutional Processes","authors":"Tony Capstick, Katarina Mozetič, James Simpson","doi":"10.1002/psp.70015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70015","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The paper advances our understanding of care in transnational families by exploring how proximate family members engage in care within two institutional contexts, a school and a hospital. It considers how care processes and outcomes are shaped by the transnational character of families and by the related power dynamics inherent within families and institutions. It does so by studying language and literacy practices that people engage in when they act as language brokers and literacy mediators for family members who are accessing care. Working with two families in the United Kingdom and Sweden, our analysis draws on fieldnotes, interviews with caregivers, and interactional data. We describe the language and literacy practices and interactional events associated with our participants' institutional encounters, relating them to individuals' intersecting positionalities. Analysis demonstrates the ways in which these practices enable them to challenge inequalities inherent in health and educational systems.</p>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"31 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/psp.70015","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143530147","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Caitlin Finlayson, Nicholas Harrigan, Ariane Utomo, Van Touch, Andrew McGregor, Katharine McKinnon, Brian R. Cook
{"title":"The Dual Employment Destinations for Rural Cambodians: Skills, Distance and Non-Monetary Returns on Migration","authors":"Caitlin Finlayson, Nicholas Harrigan, Ariane Utomo, Van Touch, Andrew McGregor, Katharine McKinnon, Brian R. Cook","doi":"10.1002/psp.70016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70016","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper applies the dual labour market migration concept to Cambodia and Thailand. We examine the migration patterns of 9066 individuals from 2507 households in rural Northwest Cambodia, distinguishing between internal migration within Cambodia and international migration to Thailand. We find that individuals from households with fewer resources, such as education, income, and land ownership, tend to migrate to Thailand, while those with more resources prefer internal migration within Cambodia. To deepen our contextual analysis of large-scale census data, we utilise 122 photos and stories related to the census data collection. Our findings indicate that members of low-resource households prioritise work in Thailand because it is geographically closer than the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh; it offers relatively higher monetary returns (around USD$12/day vs. $7.5/day in Cambodia); and migration is enabled by leaving children in Cambodia to be raised by grandparents. In contrast, members of high-resource households prioritise internal migration because Thai language requirements exclude them from primary labour sector jobs in Thailand, they can access family and manage care of children more easily, and they are able to maintain their social status and social networks. This research shows how physical and social distance interact with non-monetary factors and skill-based dual labour markets to generate complex patterns of migration both across and within national borders in Southeast Asia.</p>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"31 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/psp.70016","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143513650","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New Household Projections for Australia: Geographical Variations, Decomposition of Growth, and Implications for Policy","authors":"Tom Wilson, Jeromey Temple, Elin Charles-Edwards","doi":"10.1002/psp.70000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70000","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>In common with many other advanced economies, Australia is experiencing a crisis of worsening housing affordability. While some of the causes are longstanding, the crisis comes at a time of very high population growth driven by record high net immigration. This paper considers what the underlying demographic demand for housing, as expressed by the number of households, is likely to be over the next few years and then further ahead out to 2041. Particular attention is paid to the 2024–29 period because the Australian Government has announced a policy to build an additional 1.2 million new dwellings during this time. Using an updated version of the sequential propensity household projection model, household projections for 15 major regions of Australia were prepared for the period 2021–2041. Projected growth in the number of households was decomposed to reveal the contributions of various demographic and living arrangement drivers of growth. Alternative futures were considered using scenarios which take into account possible variations in both population and household variables. The projection results demonstrate the dominance of population growth in increasing household numbers, with additional growth contributed by population age structure change, while likely living arrangement trends will operate to dampen growth. Even considering alternative high growth futures, household growth over the 2024–29 period at the national scale is likely to be lower than 1.2 million. However, growth will vary considerably across the 15 regions, underscoring the need for housing supply to match geographical variations in household growth.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"31 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143423564","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Population Geographies in China: Future Directions of Travel","authors":"Hengyu Gu, Darren Smith, Hao Gu, Tiyan Shen","doi":"10.1002/psp.70014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"31 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143423563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}