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After the destruction of the Polish state by the invading Nazi and Soviet armies in the autumn of 1939, about 30,000 Polish nationals fled to eastern Lithuania. This article examines the relationship between population displacement and ethnic rivalry in Lithuania at the onset of the Second World War. As 'war victims' in need of help and protection, over time these Polish refugees became increasingly 'ethnicised', socially differentiated and isolated from Lithuanian society, and vilified as a potential political threat. Furthermore, the official decision to create a legal category of so-called 'newcomers' deprived those Poles who had settled in Vilnius between the wars of citizenship and residence rights in Lithuania. This policy inflated the number of 'refugees' to more than 100,000. Various other official measures, such as the creation of camps, forced labour schemes, deportations and repatriations, show how the government manipulated the refugee crisis for its own political purposes. Apres la destruction de l'etat polonais par les armees nazies et sovietiques envahissantes en automne 1939, environ 30,000 Polonais se sont enfuis en Lituanie orientale. Cet article examine la relation entre deplacement de population et rivalite ethnique en Lituanie au debut de la Deuxieme Guerre mondiale. En tant que 'victimes de guerre' en besoin d'aide et de protection, ces refugies polonais sont devenus de plus en plus 'ethnicises', socialement differencies et isoles de la societe lituanienne et diffames comme un danger politique potentiel. En outre, la decision officielle de creer une categorie legale de soi-disant 'nouveaux arrivants' a prive les Polonais qui s'etaient etablis a Vilnius durant l'entre-deux-guerres des droits de citoyennete et de residence en Lituanie. Cette politique a gonfle le nombre de 'refugies' a plus de 100,000. Diverses autres mesures officielles, telles que la creation de camps, des plans de travail force, des deportations et des rapatriements, montrent comment le gouvernement a manipule la crise des refugies pour ses propres buts politiques. Nach der Zerstorung des polnischen Staates durch die einmarschierenden nationalsozialistischen und sowjetischen Truppen im Herbst 1939 flohen etwa 30 000 polnische Staatsangehorige nach Litauen. Dieser Artikel untersucht die Beziehung zwischen der Entwurzelung der polnischen Bevolkerung und ethnischen Rivalitaten in Litauen zu Beginn des Zweiten Weltkrieges. Als 'Kriegsopfer' hilfs- und schutzbedurftig, wurden diese polnischen Fluchtlinge zunehmend 'enthnisiert', dadurch aus der litauischen Mehrheitsgesellschaft ausgegrenzt und isoliert sowie als mogliche politische Gefahr denunziert. Zudem bedeutete die neugeschaffene rechtliche Kategorie des 'Neuankommlings' fur jene Polen, die sich schon in der Zwischenkriegszeit in der litauischen Haupstadt Wilna niedergelassen hatten, den Verlust der Staatsangehorigkeit und des Aufenthaltsrechts in Litauen. Dadurch stieg in der Statistik die Zahl der sogenannten Fluchtlinge auf 100 000 an. Andere offizielle Massnahmen (wie die Errichtung von Lagern, die Einfuhrung von Zwangsarbeiterprogrammen, Deportationen und Repatriierungen) zeigen, wie die Regierung die Fluchtlingskrise fur ihre eigenen politischen Zwecke manipulierte. doi:10.1017/S0960777307004122

At the southern tip of Africa, culmination of one of the world's great population shifts is there for the witnessing: a southward movement of Bantu-speaking Black Africans, previously stalled in South Africa's Eastern Cape first by climatic factors and later by European-imposed racial segregation. Cape Town, throughout its demographic history a 'Coloured' and 'White' city, is now Africanizing. Liberation from apartheid has brought rapid African influx, and the metropolitan population has more than doubled in less than twenty years. Sociocultural tensions and sociocultural possibilities ensue. Keywords: Africa, Cape Town, demographic change, migration, racism., After years of pretending that it was not part of Africa, Cape Town is finding that Africa is very much part of it. --Christopher Hope, 1998 Manifest Destiny: The phrase [...]

The socio-cultural impact of Polynesians' migration to other Oceanian countries is evaluated. An analysis of immigrants' host country experiences on their homeland's political and economic structures is presented.

Issues are discussed regarding the construction of national identity by Singaporeans confronted with transnational conditions. The example of Singaporean transmigrants working in China is used, and it is argued that transnational location enhances the sense of national identity. Physical presence in a place appears not to be necessary for a feeling of nationhood.

Until recently, there has been a near consensus among policymakers and scholars that the objective of ethnic conflict management should be to support and preserve integrated, multiethnic societies. In the [...]

The post-war integration of expellees in Polland, East Germany and West Germany was measured using common parameters such as employment and income levels, equality opportunities, political representation and intermarriages. It was found that integration was more successful in West Germany than in the socialist states of East Germany and Polland where the expellees never became loyal nor politically active. Government focus on group interests strengthened the economic and cultural potentials of the expellees.

An analysis of the process of international migration is presented. The analysis assumes that settled friends and family assume information exchange with potential migrants at destination and origing points. A model incorporates the process of migration flow and applies a differential equation method for evaluating variables. It is shown that the model can predict migration movements by examining concerned historical, demographic and economic data.

The long-term demographic effects of immigration on a population experiencing below-replacement fertility are studied by assuming that the size and age composition of the immigrant population do not change over time. The size of the first-generation immigrant population becomes stationary within the time period not greater than the human life span. Thereafter, the number dying equals the number entering over any given time interval. The stationarity of the native population, among which deaths exceed births, is maintained by the compensating number of births to the immigrant population. The limiting age distribution of the country's population, although stationary, may not decline monotonically with age and my look like a camel's back, with one or two humps.

"For the people of low-lying island states of the world ... and certainly of my small island country of Tuvalu in the Pacific, this is no longer a debatable argument. […]

Econometric suburbanization model analyzes shift of population (by income and race) and employment in 106 large metropolitan areas. Differential mobility of wealthy and whites leaves poor and nonwhites in central cities. 'Class flight' found to be self-reinforcing; 'white flight' not confirmed. Tax-rate differences, not public-service spending, prompt suburban flight. Population and employment locale found to be symbiotic.