TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mateos,Pablo
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Names, Ethnicity and Populations: Tracing Identity in Space 
T2  - Advances in Spatial Science, The Regional Science Series,
SN  - 9783642454134
AV  - HT388 
U1  - 338.9 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Berlin, Heidelberg
PB  - Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Imprint: Springer
KW  - Economics
KW  - Geography
KW  - Regional economics
KW  - Migration
KW  - Demography
KW  - Human Geography
KW  - Economics/Management Science
KW  - Regional/Spatial Science
KW  - Economic Geography
N1  - Part I: Theory: Identity and names -- Part II: Methods: Name-based ethnicity classifications -- Part III: Applications: Mapping names and ethnicity
N2  - Ethnicity has become one of the most studied human dimensions in social and biomedical sciences over the past decade. However, there are important shortcomings in the means available to researchers to define and classify human group difference in past, as well as contemporary populations. Personal naming conventions usually adhere to unwritten social norms and customs that with time end up producing distinctive cultural, ethnic, linguistic, religious and geographic patterns in name distributions. This book follows the fascinating journey of personal names across the world, using maps and networks to identify alternative combinations of ethnic and geographic origins in contemporary population groups and neighbourhoods. This innovative approach allows population researchers to build more nuanced understandings about the history and immediate future of our contemporary multicultural societies, at a time in which the predominant political discourse and public debates are challenging increasing population diversity in the developed world
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45413-4
ER  -