Alan B Simmons
Biographic Data
| ID | 245613 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alan B Simmons |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alan B |
| FAMILY NAME | Simmons |
| SIGNATURE | SIMMONS A B |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 84 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Engendering Transnational Voices: Studies in Family, Work and Identity ed. by Guida Man, and Rina Cohen
Reviewed by: Engendering Transnational Voices: Studies in Family, Work and Identity ed. by Guida Man, and Rina Cohen Alan Simmons Guida Man and Rina Cohen, eds. Engendering Transnational Voices: Studies in Family, Work and Identity. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2015. 353pp. Introduction plus 15 chapters. Author bios. Index. $32.24 sc. Since its emergence in the 1990s, the transnational framework has come to dominate the field of mi…
Not Boxed In: Acculturation and Ethno-Social Identities of Central American Male Youth in Toronto
Schooling Goals and Social Belonging Among Central American-origin Male Youth in Toronto
Following a pattern observed elsewhere in North America, male Central American-origin youths in Toronto are, on average, less likely than others to do well in high school and less likely to go on to post-secondary studies. In an effort to better understand how these outcomes emerge, this study examines variation in academic goals between individuals, changes in individual academic goals over time, and social-relations factors associated with such…
Immigrants and the Labour Force: Policy, Regulation, and Impact
What Are the Conditions for Successful Refugee Return
zations to establish conditions for peaceful, voluntary refugee return and resettlement.These studies focus particularly on the conditions for successful return in situations where human rights and peace have been restored sufficiently that the refugee-return projects are able to address the following specific questions: Can the returnees be guaranteed housing?Can their properties be given back to them?Will returning farmers have access to land?H…
Research and Policy Issues in the Field of International Migration and North American Economic Integration
Canadian Immigration Policy in the Early 1990s: A Commentary on Veugelers and Klassen's Analysis of the Breakdown in the Unemployment-Immigration Linkage
The author comments on an article by J. W. P. Veugelers and T. R. Klassen. "Veugelers and Klassen's (1994) paper makes an important contribution by confirming in detail three findings on Canadian immigration policy that have been noted only more casually and less clearly in previous studies. In this commentary on their paper, I seek to clarify the significance of their findings and to set forth some important issues and hypotheses which are not c…
Refugees and the Prospects for Peace and Development in Central America
Refugees and Peace in Central America
Latin American Migration to Canada: New Linkages in the Hemispheric Migration and Refugee Flow System
Trends in migration from Latin America to Canada since the 1960s are described with a focus on the political conditions in the sending region and their effects on out-migration. The author then evaluates current trends and projects future patterns. (ANNOTATION
Canadian immigration policy: State strategies and the quest for legitimacy
Selon les auteurs de cette communication, les données tirées d'entrevues avec les décideurs et de l'observation participante au processus d'élaboration des politiques militent en faveur d'une interprétation de la politique canadienne de l'immigration qui s'articule autour du rǒle de l'État. Pour eux, l'État est une entitéà double visage, à la fois puissante et vulnérable, et c'est ce caractère double qui conditionne les tendances actuelles en mat…
The United Nations Recommendations and Data Efforts: International Migration Statistics
This article provides a critical review of the United Nations’ efforts to improve international migration statistics. The review addresses the challenges faced by the U.N. effort, the direction in which this effort is going, gaps in the current approach, and priorities for future action
The United Nations Recommendations and Data Efforts: International Migration Statistics
Alan B. Simmons, The United Nations Recommendations and Data Efforts: International Migration Statistics, The International Migration Review, Vol. 21, No. 4, Special Issue: Measuring International Migration: Theory and Practice (Winter, 1987), pp. 996-1016
Recent studies on place-utility and intention to migrate: An international comparison
Population Movements: Their Forms and Functions in Urbanization and Development
Social Change and Internal Migration: A Review of Research Findings from Africa, Asia and Latin America
Slowing Metropolitan City Growth in Asia: Policies, Programs, and Results
Population distribution patterns are a cause for concern in the larger developing nations of Asia and policies which seek to modify these patterns particularly the unprecedented rapid growth of metropolitan areas are in effect. Urban growth had been unintentionally fostered by 1) an expanding labor force; 2) the investment of international capital in industry located in large cities; 3) expanding governmental bureaucracies and service institution…
The Socialization of Sex-Roles and Fertility Ideals: A Study of two Generations in Toronto
A pilot study was conducted in Canada to assess intergenerational change and continuity with regard to sex-roles and fertility ideals. 95 mother-adolescent child pairs in metropolitan Toronto were studied. The pairs were: 1) British-origin Protestant; 2) Italian-origin Catholic; or 3) European-origin Jewish. Agreement between mothers and children on the following 5 areas was measured: 1) sex-role stereotypes; 2) sex-role self-concepts; 3) sex-rol…
Colombia: Stages of Family Planning Adoption, 1964-1969
A 1964 survey of 2241 women aged 20-50 and a 1969 survey of 675 women aged 15-49 in Bogota Colombia were compared to examine changes in family planning acceptance. In 1964 82% of the women knew of at least 1 contraceptive method compared to 97% in 1969. The percentage generally favorable to family planning was 68% in 1964 rising to 76% by 1969. The average ideal family size in 1964 was 3.64. 67% in 1964 and 73% in 1969 stated they wanted no more …
Ambivalence toward small families in Rural Latin America
Data from a rural fertility survey conducted among 6814 15-49 year old women in Costa Rica. Colombia, Mexico, and Peru in 1968 and 1969 is used to determine social definitions of large and small families and advantages and disadvantages associated with family size. Large families were defined as having between 9.5-10.7 children. Small families were defined as having 3.2-4.0 children. 79% found disadvantages to large families (costs and/or influen…
Rural—Urban Migration: Who Comes, Who Stays, Who Returns? The Case of Bogotá, Columbia, 1929–1968
The characteristics of rural urban migrants arriving over the 1929-68 period in Bogota, Colombia were examined, focusing on male migrants and the effect of migrant selectivity over time on the educational and occupational levels of Bogota and the predominantly rural region where most migrants to Bogota originate. Data were obtained primarily from a stratified (by social class) random sample of 3579 men aged 15-64 living in Bogota in September 196…
Rural-Urban Migration: Who Comes, Who Stays, Who Returns? The Case of Bogota, Columbia, 1929-1968
Alan B. Simmons, Ramiro Cardona G., Rural--Urban Migration: Who Comes, Who Stays, Who Returns? The Case of Bogotá, Columbia, 1929-1968, The International Migration Review, Vol. 6, No. 2, Internal Migration in Latin America (Summer, 1972), pp. 166-181
Industrialization, family and fertility: A structural-psychological analysis of the Brazilian case
This paper addresses itself to some linkages between macro-social structure (industrialization, social class), social psychological variables (husband-wife decision making), psychological variables (attitudes), and fertility. A total of 726 currently mated women with proven fertility in five Brazilian communities were interviewed to determine various attitudes, their work experience, their participation in family decisions, their fertility ideals…
Industrialization, family and fertility: A structural-psychological analysis of the Brazilian case
This paper addresses itself to some linkages between macro-social structure (industrialization, social class), social psychological variables (husband-wife decision making), psychological variables (attitudes), and fertility. A total of 726 currently mated women with proven fertility in five Brazilian communities were interviewed to determine various attitudes, their work experience, their participation in family decisions, their fertility ideals…
Canadian immigration policy: State strategies and the quest for legitimacy
Selon les auteurs de cette communication, les données tirées d'entrevues avec les décideurs et de l'observation participante au processus d'élaboration des politiques militent en faveur d'une interprétation de la politique canadienne de l'immigration qui s'articule autour du rǒle de l'État. Pour eux, l'État est une entitéà double visage, à la fois puissante et vulnérable, et c'est ce caractère double qui conditionne les tendances actuelles en mat…
Recent studies on place-utility and intention to migrate: An international comparison
Latin American Migration to Canada: New Linkages in the Hemispheric Migration and Refugee Flow System
Trends in migration from Latin America to Canada since the 1960s are described with a focus on the political conditions in the sending region and their effects on out-migration. The author then evaluates current trends and projects future patterns. (ANNOTATION
Slowing Metropolitan City Growth in Asia: Policies, Programs, and Results
Population distribution patterns are a cause for concern in the larger developing nations of Asia and policies which seek to modify these patterns particularly the unprecedented rapid growth of metropolitan areas are in effect. Urban growth had been unintentionally fostered by 1) an expanding labor force; 2) the investment of international capital in industry located in large cities; 3) expanding governmental bureaucracies and service institution…
Not Boxed In: Acculturation and Ethno-Social Identities of Central American Male Youth in Toronto
Ambivalence toward small families in Rural Latin America
Data from a rural fertility survey conducted among 6814 15-49 year old women in Costa Rica. Colombia, Mexico, and Peru in 1968 and 1969 is used to determine social definitions of large and small families and advantages and disadvantages associated with family size. Large families were defined as having between 9.5-10.7 children. Small families were defined as having 3.2-4.0 children. 79% found disadvantages to large families (costs and/or influen…
The Socialization of Sex-Roles and Fertility Ideals: A Study of two Generations in Toronto
A pilot study was conducted in Canada to assess intergenerational change and continuity with regard to sex-roles and fertility ideals. 95 mother-adolescent child pairs in metropolitan Toronto were studied. The pairs were: 1) British-origin Protestant; 2) Italian-origin Catholic; or 3) European-origin Jewish. Agreement between mothers and children on the following 5 areas was measured: 1) sex-role stereotypes; 2) sex-role self-concepts; 3) sex-rol…
The United Nations Recommendations and Data Efforts: International Migration Statistics
This article provides a critical review of the United Nations’ efforts to improve international migration statistics. The review addresses the challenges faced by the U.N. effort, the direction in which this effort is going, gaps in the current approach, and priorities for future action
Schooling Goals and Social Belonging Among Central American-origin Male Youth in Toronto
Following a pattern observed elsewhere in North America, male Central American-origin youths in Toronto are, on average, less likely than others to do well in high school and less likely to go on to post-secondary studies. In an effort to better understand how these outcomes emerge, this study examines variation in academic goals between individuals, changes in individual academic goals over time, and social-relations factors associated with such…
Rural-Urban Migration: Who Comes, Who Stays, Who Returns? The Case of Bogota, Columbia, 1929-1968
Alan B. Simmons, Ramiro Cardona G., Rural--Urban Migration: Who Comes, Who Stays, Who Returns? The Case of Bogotá, Columbia, 1929-1968, The International Migration Review, Vol. 6, No. 2, Internal Migration in Latin America (Summer, 1972), pp. 166-181
Rural—Urban Migration: Who Comes, Who Stays, Who Returns? The Case of Bogotá, Columbia, 1929–1968
The characteristics of rural urban migrants arriving over the 1929-68 period in Bogota, Colombia were examined, focusing on male migrants and the effect of migrant selectivity over time on the educational and occupational levels of Bogota and the predominantly rural region where most migrants to Bogota originate. Data were obtained primarily from a stratified (by social class) random sample of 3579 men aged 15-64 living in Bogota in September 196…
Refugees and the Prospects for Peace and Development in Central America
Colombia: Stages of Family Planning Adoption, 1964-1969
A 1964 survey of 2241 women aged 20-50 and a 1969 survey of 675 women aged 15-49 in Bogota Colombia were compared to examine changes in family planning acceptance. In 1964 82% of the women knew of at least 1 contraceptive method compared to 97% in 1969. The percentage generally favorable to family planning was 68% in 1964 rising to 76% by 1969. The average ideal family size in 1964 was 3.64. 67% in 1964 and 73% in 1969 stated they wanted no more …
Industrialization, family and fertility: A structural-psychological analysis of the Brazilian case
This paper addresses itself to some linkages between macro-social structure (industrialization, social class), social psychological variables (husband-wife decision making), psychological variables (attitudes), and fertility. A total of 726 currently mated women with proven fertility in five Brazilian communities were interviewed to determine various attitudes, their work experience, their participation in family decisions, their fertility ideals…
Rural—Urban Migration: Who Comes, Who Stays, Who Returns? The Case of Bogotá, Columbia, 1929–1968
The characteristics of rural urban migrants arriving over the 1929-68 period in Bogota, Colombia were examined, focusing on male migrants and the effect of migrant selectivity over time on the educational and occupational levels of Bogota and the predominantly rural region where most migrants to Bogota originate. Data were obtained primarily from a stratified (by social class) random sample of 3579 men aged 15-64 living in Bogota in September 196…
Rural-Urban Migration: Who Comes, Who Stays, Who Returns? The Case of Bogota, Columbia, 1929-1968
Alan B. Simmons, Ramiro Cardona G., Rural--Urban Migration: Who Comes, Who Stays, Who Returns? The Case of Bogotá, Columbia, 1929-1968, The International Migration Review, Vol. 6, No. 2, Internal Migration in Latin America (Summer, 1972), pp. 166-181
Colombia: Stages of Family Planning Adoption, 1964-1969
A 1964 survey of 2241 women aged 20-50 and a 1969 survey of 675 women aged 15-49 in Bogota Colombia were compared to examine changes in family planning acceptance. In 1964 82% of the women knew of at least 1 contraceptive method compared to 97% in 1969. The percentage generally favorable to family planning was 68% in 1964 rising to 76% by 1969. The average ideal family size in 1964 was 3.64. 67% in 1964 and 73% in 1969 stated they wanted no more …
Ambivalence toward small families in Rural Latin America
Data from a rural fertility survey conducted among 6814 15-49 year old women in Costa Rica. Colombia, Mexico, and Peru in 1968 and 1969 is used to determine social definitions of large and small families and advantages and disadvantages associated with family size. Large families were defined as having between 9.5-10.7 children. Small families were defined as having 3.2-4.0 children. 79% found disadvantages to large families (costs and/or influen…
The Socialization of Sex-Roles and Fertility Ideals: A Study of two Generations in Toronto
A pilot study was conducted in Canada to assess intergenerational change and continuity with regard to sex-roles and fertility ideals. 95 mother-adolescent child pairs in metropolitan Toronto were studied. The pairs were: 1) British-origin Protestant; 2) Italian-origin Catholic; or 3) European-origin Jewish. Agreement between mothers and children on the following 5 areas was measured: 1) sex-role stereotypes; 2) sex-role self-concepts; 3) sex-rol…
Social Change and Internal Migration: A Review of Research Findings from Africa, Asia and Latin America
Slowing Metropolitan City Growth in Asia: Policies, Programs, and Results
Population distribution patterns are a cause for concern in the larger developing nations of Asia and policies which seek to modify these patterns particularly the unprecedented rapid growth of metropolitan areas are in effect. Urban growth had been unintentionally fostered by 1) an expanding labor force; 2) the investment of international capital in industry located in large cities; 3) expanding governmental bureaucracies and service institution…
Population Movements: Their Forms and Functions in Urbanization and Development
Recent studies on place-utility and intention to migrate: An international comparison
The United Nations Recommendations and Data Efforts: International Migration Statistics
This article provides a critical review of the United Nations’ efforts to improve international migration statistics. The review addresses the challenges faced by the U.N. effort, the direction in which this effort is going, gaps in the current approach, and priorities for future action
The United Nations Recommendations and Data Efforts: International Migration Statistics
Alan B. Simmons, The United Nations Recommendations and Data Efforts: International Migration Statistics, The International Migration Review, Vol. 21, No. 4, Special Issue: Measuring International Migration: Theory and Practice (Winter, 1987), pp. 996-1016
Canadian immigration policy: State strategies and the quest for legitimacy
Selon les auteurs de cette communication, les données tirées d'entrevues avec les décideurs et de l'observation participante au processus d'élaboration des politiques militent en faveur d'une interprétation de la politique canadienne de l'immigration qui s'articule autour du rǒle de l'État. Pour eux, l'État est une entitéà double visage, à la fois puissante et vulnérable, et c'est ce caractère double qui conditionne les tendances actuelles en mat…
Latin American Migration to Canada: New Linkages in the Hemispheric Migration and Refugee Flow System
Trends in migration from Latin America to Canada since the 1960s are described with a focus on the political conditions in the sending region and their effects on out-migration. The author then evaluates current trends and projects future patterns. (ANNOTATION
Canadian Immigration Policy in the Early 1990s: A Commentary on Veugelers and Klassen's Analysis of the Breakdown in the Unemployment-Immigration Linkage
The author comments on an article by J. W. P. Veugelers and T. R. Klassen. "Veugelers and Klassen's (1994) paper makes an important contribution by confirming in detail three findings on Canadian immigration policy that have been noted only more casually and less clearly in previous studies. In this commentary on their paper, I seek to clarify the significance of their findings and to set forth some important issues and hypotheses which are not c…
Refugees and the Prospects for Peace and Development in Central America
Refugees and Peace in Central America
Research and Policy Issues in the Field of International Migration and North American Economic Integration
What Are the Conditions for Successful Refugee Return
zations to establish conditions for peaceful, voluntary refugee return and resettlement.These studies focus particularly on the conditions for successful return in situations where human rights and peace have been restored sufficiently that the refugee-return projects are able to address the following specific questions: Can the returnees be guaranteed housing?Can their properties be given back to them?Will returning farmers have access to land?H…
Immigrants and the Labour Force: Policy, Regulation, and Impact
Schooling Goals and Social Belonging Among Central American-origin Male Youth in Toronto
Following a pattern observed elsewhere in North America, male Central American-origin youths in Toronto are, on average, less likely than others to do well in high school and less likely to go on to post-secondary studies. In an effort to better understand how these outcomes emerge, this study examines variation in academic goals between individuals, changes in individual academic goals over time, and social-relations factors associated with such…
Engendering Transnational Voices: Studies in Family, Work and Identity ed. by Guida Man, and Rina Cohen
Reviewed by: Engendering Transnational Voices: Studies in Family, Work and Identity ed. by Guida Man, and Rina Cohen Alan Simmons Guida Man and Rina Cohen, eds. Engendering Transnational Voices: Studies in Family, Work and Identity. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2015. 353pp. Introduction plus 15 chapters. Author bios. Index. $32.24 sc. Since its emergence in the 1990s, the transnational framework has come to dominate the field of mi…
Not Boxed In: Acculturation and Ethno-Social Identities of Central American Male Youth in Toronto
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