International Handbooks of Population 3 László J. Kulcsár Katherine J. Curtis Editors International Handbook of Rural Demography International Handbook of Rural Demography International Handbooks of Population Volume 3 SeriesEditor DudleyL.Poston,Jr. ProfessorofSociology,GeorgeT.&GladysH.AbellProfessorofLiberalArts Director,AsianStudiesProgram TexasA&MUniversity ACADBldg.425B(office) CollegeStation,Texas77843-4351,USA The International Handbooks of Population offer up-to-date scholarly summaries andsourcesofinformationonthemajorsubjectareasandissuesofdemographyand population. Each handbook examines its particular subject area in depth, providing timely, accessible coverage of its full scale and scope, discusses substantive contri- butionsfordeeperunderstanding,andprovidesreliableguidanceonthedirectionof futuredevelopments. Volumes will explore topics of vital interest: Population Aging, Poverty, Mortality, Family Demography, Migration, Race and Ethnic Demography and more. Each volumewillprovideastate-of-the-arttreatmentofitsrespectivearea.Theserieswill quicklyproveusefultoabroadaudienceincludingdemographers,practitionersand scholarsacrossarangeofdisciplines. Forfurthervolumes: http://www.springer.com/series/8111 · László J. Kulcsár Katherine J. Curtis Editors International Handbook of Rural Demography 123 Editors LászlóJ.Kulcsár KatherineJ.Curtis KansasStateUniversity UniversityofWisconsin-Madison Sociology,AnthropologyandSocialWork CommunityandEnvironmentalSociology WatersHall202D 1450LindenDrive Manhattan,KS66506 Madison,WI53706 USA USA [email protected] [email protected] ISSN1877-9204 ISBN978-94-007-1841-8 e-ISBN978-94-007-1842-5 DOI10.1007/978-94-007-1842-5 SpringerDordrechtHeidelbergLondonNewYork LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2011937704 ©SpringerScience+BusinessMediaB.V.2012 Nopartofthisworkmaybereproduced,storedinaretrievalsystem,ortransmittedinanyformorby anymeans,electronic,mechanical,photocopying,microfilming,recordingorotherwise,withoutwritten permissionfromthePublisher,withtheexceptionofanymaterialsuppliedspecificallyforthepurposeof beingenteredandexecutedonacomputersystem,forexclusiveusebythepurchaserofthework. Printedonacid-freepaper SpringerispartofSpringerScience+BusinessMedia(www.springer.com) Acknowledgements ThishandbookwouldnothavebeenpossiblewithoutourcolleaguesintheW–2001– PopulationDynamicsandChange:Aging,EthnicityandLandUseChangeinRural Communities working group under the USDA CSREES. This community of rural demographersfromvariousacademicfieldshasbeentheconceptualnucleusbehind this project. We wish to thank Dudley L. Poston for his confidence and support throughout the whole process as well as David L. Brown and Joachim Singelmann fortheircontinuousadviceandencouragement. We would like to acknowledge the Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station at Kansas State University and the Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment Station at the UniversityofWisconsin-Madisonforsupportingtheproductionofthehandbook.We would also like to thank Rozalynn Klaas in the Applied Population Laboratory at theUniversityofWisconsin-Madisonforhercopyeditingthehandbookwithinfinite energyandpatience. This handbook is dedicated to all rural demographers, members of a relatively smallbutuniqueanddevotedcommunitywhounderstandthelinksbetweentheland and the people, and who carry on this scholarship for the benefit of all. We also dedicatethishandbooktothepeoplecomprisingtheworld’softenunrecognizedrural population. v Contents 1 WhyDoesRuralDemographyStillMatter? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 LászlóJ.KulcsárandKatherineJ.Curtis Part1 FundamentalIssuesandTrendsinRuralDemography 2 ChallengesintheAnalysisofRuralPopulations intheUnitedStates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 SteveH.Murdock,MichaelCline,andMaryZey 3 Rural Natural Increase in the New Century: America’s ThirdDemographicTransition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 KennethM.JohnsonandDanielT.Lichter 4 Migration and Rural Population Change: Comparative ViewsinMoreDevelopedNations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 DavidL.Brown 5 WorldUrbanization:DestinyandReconceptualization . . . . . . . . 49 AveryM.Guest 6 RuralAginginInternationalContext . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 E.HelenBerry Part2 RegionalandCountryCaseStudiesinRuralDemography 7 Europe’sRuralDemography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 AnthonyChampion 8 TheDemographyofRuralLatinAmerica:TheCaseofChile . . . . 95 LeifJensenandDavidAder 9 RuralDemographyinAsiaandthePacificRim . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 GavinJonesandPremchandDommaraju 10 Demographic Change and Rural-Urban Inequality inSub-SaharanAfrica:TheoryandTrends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 ParfaitM.Eloundou-EnyegueandSarahC.Giroux vii viii Contents 11 DemographicStructureandProcessinRuralChina . . . . . . . . . 137 DudleyL.Poston,MaryAnnDavis,andDanielleXiaodanDeng 12 RuralPopulationTrendsinMexico:Demographic andLaborChanges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 LandySanchezandEdithPacheco 13 RuralDemographyofIndia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 T.V.Sekher 14 TheAboriginalPeopleofCanada:ARuralPerspective . . . . . . . . 191 GustaveGoldmann Part3 Social,Economic,andEnvironmentalDynamics inRuralDemography 15 RuralRaceandEthnicity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207 RogelioSáenz 16 FamilyMatters:Gender,WorkArrangements, andtheRuralMyth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225 LeannM.TiggesandHaeYeonChoo 17 RuralFamiliesinTransition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239 KristinE.SmithandMarybethJ.Mattingly 18 RuralHealthDisparities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255 P.JohnelleSparks 19 Perspectives on U.S. Rural Labor Markets in the First DecadeoftheTwenty-FirstCentury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273 AlexanderC.Vias 20 Race and Place: Determinants of Poverty in the Texas BorderlandandtheLowerMississippiDelta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293 JoachimSingelmann,TimSlack,andKaylaFontenot 21 RuralJobs:MakingaLivingintheCountryside . . . . . . . . . . . 307 GaryPaulGreen 22 The Spatial Heterogeneity and Geographic Extent ofPopulationDeconcentration:Measurement andPolicyImplications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319 JoannaP.GanningandBenjaminD.McCall 23 Integrating Ecology and Demography to Understand the Interrelationship Between Environmental Issues andRuralPopulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333 ChristopherA.Lepczyk,MarcLinderman,andRogerB.Hammer 24 Boom or Bust? Population Dynamics in Natural Resource-DependentCounties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349 RichelleWinkler,ChengCheng,andShaunGolding Contents ix Part4 BroadPerspectivesforFutureRuralDemography 25 NeoliberalDemocratizationandPublicHealthInequalities in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Proposed Conceptual andEmpiricalDesign . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369 MoshiOptatHerman 26 DiverseRuralitiesinthe21stCentury:FromEffacement to(Re-)Invention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387 KeithHalfacree Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401 Contributors DavidAder DepartmentofAgriculturalEconomicsandRuralSociologyandthe PopulationResearchInstitute,PennsylvaniaStateUniversity,UniversityPark, PA16802,USA,[email protected] E.HelenBerry DepartmentofSociology,SocialWorkandAnthropology,Utah StateUniversity,Logan,UT84322-0730,USA,[email protected] DavidL.Brown DepartmentofDevelopmentSociology,CornellUniversity, Ithaca,NY14850,USA,[email protected] AnthonyChampion SchoolofGeography,PoliticsandSociology,Universityof Newcastle,NewcastleuponTyneNE17RU,UK,[email protected] ChengCheng AppliedPopulationLaboratory,DepartmentofCommunityand EnvironmentalSociology,UniversityofWisconsin-Madison,Madison,WI53706, USA,[email protected] HaeYeonChoo DepartmentofSociology,UniversityofWisconsin-Madison, Madison,WI53706,USA,[email protected] MichaelCline DepartmentofSociology,RiceUniversity,Houston, TX77005-1827,USA,[email protected] KatherineJ.Curtis DepartmentofCommunityandEnvironmentalSociology, UniversityofWisconsin-Madison,Madison,WI53706,USA,[email protected] MaryAnnDavis DepartmentofSociology,SamHoustonStateUniversity, Huntsville,TX77341-2446,USA,[email protected] DanielleXiaodanDeng DepartmentofSociology,TexasA&MUniversity, CollegeStation,TX77843-4351,USA,[email protected] PremchandDommaraju DivisionofSociology,SchoolofHumanitiesandSocial Sciences,NanyangTechnologicalUniversity,637332Singapore, [email protected] ParfaitM.Eloundou-Enyegue DepartmentofDevelopmentSociology,Cornell University,Ithaca,NY14853,USA,[email protected] KaylaFontenot DepartmentofSociology,LouisianaStateUniversity,Baton Rouge,LA70803,USA,[email protected] xi