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This book problematizes and contextualizes decades of urbanization, immigration and population growth in the overseas department of French Guyana (located in South America between Brazil and Suriname) as a power conflict between the core France and local political actors over managing the population, its composition, its size and its spatial distribution. The introduction delineates the core elements and delimits the contours of the theoretical concept of “political demography”, largely based on the Myron Weiner and Michael Teitelbaum’s (2001) book of Political Demography and Demographic Engineering. The political demography theory crosses and federates the following four chapters that constitute the content of the book.
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Zéphirin, R. (2020). Introduction: Designing the Problematical and Theoretical Contours of Political Demography as Urban Governance Challenges. In: Political Demography and Urban Governance in French Guyana. Palgrave Pivot, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3832-2_1
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