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demography - Coggle Diagram

- - - - citizens- have full rights
      - denizens- privileged foreign nationals
      - helots- disposable work force in unskilled labour, poorly paid, illegally trafficked workers
  - - - multiculturalism- may wish to retain a separate cultural identity- acceptance may be limited to superficial differences- food ( shallow diversity) rather than fundamental ones- veiling of women (deep diversity)
      - assimilation polices are counterproductive- mark out minorities as other.
      - assimilation may encourage workers to blame migrants for unemployment
- - - - changes in position of women
      - decline In infant mortality rate
      - children are an economic liability
  - - - due to increase of immigration, mothers from outside UK have higher fertility rate than those of the UK
      - babies born to mothers from outisde the uk accounted for 25% of all births in 2001
- - - - those living in the north and Scotland have lower le than those in the south
    - - effects of ageing population
        
        public serivices- older people consume a larger proportion of services
        
        one person pensioner households- higher number of older people living alone. lots of housing taken up by single individuals
        
        ageism
        
        ageism age status socially constructed- old age is connected to dependancy and negative stereotypes
        
        dependancy ratio- older people who no longer work are often dependant on the working population to provide for them, as more people retire, there will be an increase of burden on working class
      - POLICY IMPLICATIONS
        
        changes to there retirement age
        
        reverse the trend of early retirement
        
        retraining to start different careers
        
        changing housing policies
        
        cultural changes in our attitudes towards older people