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Reviews the interdisciplinary literature examining ideological influences that have helped shape population control policy in recent decades. A powerful critique of what has become a top-down, ethnocentric approach toward a narrowly focused policy has emerged from scholars in both the Third World & more developed regions. Concerns with issues such as outside intervention in national sovereignty, ethical aspects associated with the implementation of fertility control programs, exclusion of Third World scholars from research programs in their own countries, & unwillingness of programs to consider complex social & cultural dimensions of high fertility, are among those addressed by this literature. Also examined is the role of professional demographers, as part of the population establishment network in the US, in providing respectable justification for questionable policy intervention. 58 References. Adapted from the source document.

In this review of literature dealing with the postwar immigrant experience in urban Australia, some of the key interpretations of residential segregation are assessed. The article focuses on studies which have examined ethnic clusters formed by southern Europeans in Sydney and Melbourne and more recently by Indochinese refugees. Much of the analysis to date has been based on measuring static residential patterns rather than social interaction, and the need to question the significance of ethnic concentrations which sometimes characterize the early stages of immigrant adaptation is suggested.