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This book is a broad collection of short and concise chapters addressing important issues relating to population levels, trends, and differentials. In addition to traditional population concerns, such as growth, composition, fertility, mortality, and migration, the articles address a broad range of related issues, including climate change, environmental degradation, socio-economic development, and policy development. The articles are concise, focused on specific issues, and presented in a style that avoids technical jargon and is easily understood by a broad range of readers. The articles are not only aimed at conveying population information, but also providing important messages for informed policy formulation and program implementation. Among the many issues addressed are human rights, laws, women, gender, climate change, COVID-19 pandemic, ageing, retirement, and abortion. Written in an accessible way, the book will appeal to many general readers wishing to know more about population issues.

Part 1. Age Structure -- 1. 2024: The Historic Reversal of America's Population -- 2. America's Retirement Riddle -- 3. America's Age Tipping Point is Approaching — we're Totally Unprepared -- 4. As Americans Age, a Demographic Crisis Looms -- 5. Caring for The Old -- 6. Population Ageing: An Inescapable Future -- 7. Quitting Work in Retirement? Fuhgeddaboudit -- 8. Raise Retirement Ages -- Part 2. Climate Change -- 9. America's Climate Change Conclusion -- 10. Climate Change Conclusion: Time for Bold Action -- 11. Climate Change Crisis Nonacceptance -- 12. Climate Change Requires Population Stabilization for America -- 13. Climate Change with 8 Billion Humans -- 14. Earth Day to Earth Disaster -- 15. Hamburgers and Climate Change -- 16. The Climate Change Shuffle: Deny, Delay, and Do Nothing -- 17. Too Hot for Climate Change: Limiting Population Growth -- Part 3. Development -- 18. Androids in Human Populations -- 19. As Foes and Allies Rise, America's Downward Spiral Accelerates -- 20. Billionaires 'kvetching' about Population Collapse -- 21. Debunking Demographic Denialism -- 22. Food and People -- 23. Planet Earth into Planet Plastics -- 24. Who's not Voting in America? -- 25. Why Aren't More Women Angry? -- Part 4. Fertility -- 26. Abortion and the Supreme Court: An American Tragedy -- 27. Abortion Decision Felt Worldwide -- 28. America's Views on Abortion Remain Steady - its Laws are a Different Story -- 29. Don't Blame American Women for Fewer Births -- 30. Future Fertility Fantasies -- 31. The Challenges of High Fertility, Rapidly Growing Populations -- Part 5. Growth -- 32. After Years of US Population Growth, it's Time for a Pause -- 33. America's Majority - Minority Confusion -- 34. America's Population Growth Future -- 35. For America's Future Population, how much is too much? -- 36. Is the US Population in Decline? More Ponzi Demography -- 37. No, Henny Penny, America's Demographic Sky is not Falling -- 38. Population Growth Diversity Continuing in the 21st Century -- 39. Population Stabilization, not Growth, is the Key to America's Future -- 40. Slower Population Growth Signals Successes and Benefits -- Part 6. Households -- 41. A Possible Solution to Childcare -- 42. America's Single Parent Families -- 43. Breakdown of Poverty in America is a Mirror to the Nation's Reality -- 44. Dating in a Changing America -- 45. Living alone in America -- 46. The end of Marriage in America? -- 47. Why aren't more American Women and Men in the Labor Force? -- Part 7. International Migration -- 48. America's Immigration Policy Reform: Polemics, Idealism and Slogans -- 49. America's Open Border Policy -- 50. An Open Borders World -- 51. For the Foreseeable Future, Immigration will Fuel U.S. Population Growth -- 52. How Many More Immigrants and who should they be? -- 53. Migration Pawns: Unaccompanied Children -- 54. US Population Stability Requires Immigration – Just not too Much -- Part 8. Irregular Migration -- 55. America's Unauthorized Immigrants have been Left out of the Conversation -- 56. Illegal Immigration Dilemma -- 57. Illegal Immigration: A Global Crisis of the 21st Century -- 58. Smuggler Services for Illegal Immigration -- 59. What should be the Consequences for Illegal Immigration? -- 60. Why the Surprise Over Illegal Immigration that's only Poised to Grow? -- Part 9. Mortality -- 61. America's Pandemic of the Unvaccinated -- 62. America's Unhealthy Lifestyles -- 63. Demographic Impact of Coronavirus Pandemic: An Overview -- 64. Don't Refuse a Covid-19 Vaccine -- 65. One thing Americans can't Deny: The Nation's Low Life Expectancy -- 66. The Dying Children Divide -- 67. The Lives and Deaths of Infants: America's Discouraging Disadvantage -- Part 10. Policies -- 68. America's Experiencing a Binary Sex Transformation -- 69. America's Taxes - Complex, Incomprehensible and Unfair -- 70. Growing Disconnects Between Citizens and Legislators Endanger US Democracy -- 71. It's Time for a Discussion About Life After Being Born in America -- 72. The 'Great Replacement' Theory Rejects History and Reality -- 73. The Most Likely to be in the Jailhouse Now -- 74. The Republicans' Opposition to Elder Support is Decades in the Making -- 75. U.S. Political Divides on Demographics -- Part 11. Refugees -- 76. America's Refugee and Asylum Debate -- 77. Attention America: There's an Asylum Iceberg Dead Ahead -- 78. Rejecting Refugee Realities: Somebody else's Problem -- 79. Right to Asylum: Bye-Bye -- 80. Twilight for the 1951 Refugee Convention.

International migration and the global community : overview / Joseph Chamie and Mary G. Powers -- Migration in an interconnected and gendered world / Monica Boyd -- Comments on migration in an interconnected world, new directions for action / D. A. Coleman -- The pragmatism of the Global Commission on International Migration / Howard Duncan -- Irregular migration and cohesion / Austin T. Fragomen, Jr -- Improving international migration governance / Mary M. Kritz -- The economy, development, social well-being, and work in the final report of the GCIM / Agustin Escobar Latapi -- The impact of immigration on New York City / Peter Lobo -- Migration and development and the commission's report / Bob Lucas -- Towards greater coherence, capacity, and cooperation / Susan Martin -- Reflections on the final report of the Global Commission on International Migration / Demetrios G. Papademetriou -- The Global Commission on International Migration : challenges and paradoxes / Michael S. Teitelbaum

Executive Summary This article comprehensively examines international migration trends and policies in light of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. It begins by reviewing migration developments throughout the past 60 years. It then examines pandemic-related migration trends and policies. It concludes with a series of general observations and insights that should guide local, national, regional, and international policymakers, moving forward. In particular, it proposes the following: National measures to combat COVID-19 should include international migrants, irrespective of their legal status, and should complement regional and international responses. Localities, nations, and the international community should prioritize the safe return and reintegration of migrants. States and international agencies should plan for the gradual re-emergence of large-scale migration based on traditional push and pull forces once a COVID-19 vaccine is widely available. States should redouble their efforts to reconcile national border security concerns and the basic human rights of migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers. States and the international community should accelerate their efforts to address climate-related migration. States of origin, transit, and destination should directly address the challenges of international migration and not minimize them.