Zero Population Growth-For Whom? Differential Fertility and Minority Group Survival.

Abstract

This volume contains the record of the 1975 Conference on Population and Intergroup Relations sponsored by the American Jewish Committee as a forum for views on effects of population change on intergroup relations. The goals set forth both for the background papers and for the conference deliberations are the following: 1) to assemble available information on national and international and intergroup problems related to population changes; 2) to assess the demographic realities underlying these problems; 3) to explore the need for and feasibility of a broader program of activities in this area to be undertaken by AJC and/or other organizations; and 4) yield an AJC publication based on the prepared papers and the conference discussion that will focus attention on these problems and their solutions. Contents include: 1) the view from the past: population change and group survival by Etienne van de Walle; 2) alarums excursions and delusions of grandeur: implicit assumptions of group efforts to alter differential fertility trends by Frederick S. Jaffe; 3) demographic and political implications of immigration policy by Charles B. Keely; 4) ethnic and fertility: what and so what by Bernard Berelson; 5) demogrpahy and American Jewish survival by calvin Goldscheider; and 6) dialogues--group fertility: factors and trends; attempts to alter fertility rates; a fertility policy for Jewish survival? and immigration and population change.