Sumblog 10

What ain't no country I've ever heard of!

Recently, the topic of population came into discussion while talking about the environmental facet of Globalization. There are many different ways of controlling population falling under two main categories: Population Control (pertaining to the births/potential births) and immigration control.


Visual depictions of the effects of China's one child policy.
I chose these three charts in order to demonstrate the effects of
population control on a country's pop. growth and demographics


 

Population control focuses on preventing or even limiting births through voluntary and involuntary methods. Voluntary methods include the promotion of birth control and other forms of family planning. Involuntary methods include sterilization (linked to necessary government aid) and laws only allowing each family to have one child.

Immigration control attempts to limit or restrict the number of people that move across borders and settle down. Some countries create large legal barriers to live, work and act within their borders without citizenship status, while others physically deport immigrants or physically protect their borders.

My take on the issue of population control is that as effective as some government's actions on pop. control may be, countries have often regulated their pop. through social and structural means (i.e. as more people move to the cities, children become less productive, as they were in rural areas, and more of a liability. This often has led to declining fertility). As times and environments change for a country, so should the population. Also birth and immigration policies tend to be very difficult to enforce in my opinion. While it may be hard for a non-citizen to find legitimate work, they may have a very easy time finding illegitimate, unregulated work.