Germans in Germany's Ethnic Neighborhoods

Explaining Race and Ethnic Disparities in Birthweight in Chicago Neighborhoods

This paper examines the contribution of neighborhood and maternal characteristics to birthweight differentials among infants born to non-Hispanic black, non-Hispanic white, and Mexican-origin Hispanic mothers (of any race). Linear regression models with neighborhood fixed effects were estimated using birth certificate records for all births in Chicago from 1990. About 30 percent of the black/wh...

A tale of two Germanys

Editor—The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 marked the beginning of the end of communism in eastern Europe and in eastern Germany. As McKee and Fister point out, certain constellations of epidemiological and demographic variables characterise the resultant process of political and economic transition: low or even decreasing life expectancy (especially for men) and higher prevalences of alcoholis...

The Forced Expulsion of Ethnic Germans from Czechoslovakia after World War II: Memory, Identity, and History

Germans ' tourist behaviour in Sweden

Introduction Tourism literature tends to convey the impression that tourists are exceedingly active during their holidays (Thornton, Williams & Shaw, 1997; Shaw & Williams, 2002; Walmsley, 2004). This is the case especially when non-academic studies are considered (see for example F.U.R., 2007; Nutek, 2007). However, this assumption might be influenced by the methodologies employed and the case...

Desmond Mervyn Germans