7. Union formation and partner choice

Hamel, Christelle; Huschek, Doreen; Milewski, Nadja; Valk, Helga De

doi:10.1515/9789048516926-008

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“…10 Additional analyses developed separately by gender (see Figures A-1, A-2, and A-3 in the Appendix) confirm that normative timetables vary for men and women, reflecting pervasive cultural differences in their age stratification (see, for example, Chiuri and del Boca 2010; Liu, Esteve, and Treviño 2019; Hogan and Astone 1986): In both destination areas, women tend to leave their parental home and form a new union before men, and they are less likely to live in a nonmarital union. However, in line with the existing literature (Hamel et al 2012;Zorlu and Van Gaalen 2016), second generations show that gender differences in the transition to adulthood are quite constant across different ethnic groups. Nevertheless, some minor points can be detected: In southern Europe, men show no marked disparities by generation (excepting G1) in the probability of living with parents, whereas G1.5 women display a predicted probability that is lower than that of majority group.…”

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Living arrangements of adult children of immigrants in selected European countries

Galasso¹,

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2020

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Living arrangements of adult children of immigrants in selected European countries

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2020

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“…Multiple studies have shown that policies can affect immigrants' integration (e.g. Goodman/Wright 2015), religiosity (Ersanilli/Koopmans 2011;Carol et al 2015), union formation (Hamel et al 2012;Carol et al 2014), and fertility patterns (Andersson/Scott 2005;Milewski 2007). Moreover, in line with theories on political socialisation through school, work or the media (Almond/Verba 1989) we expect to fi nd that the societal climate (e.g.…”

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Attitudes toward Abortion for Medical and Non-medical Reasons among the Turkish Second Generation in Europe – The Role of the Family and Societal Contexts

Milewski

Carol

2019

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This paper studies attitudes toward abortion among the second generation of Turkish migrants and their native counterparts in six western and northern European countries. We focus on Turkish migrants because they not only constitute one of the largest immigrant groups, but are also hypothesised to be culturally and demographically very distinctive from the native group. We used data from the project on “The Integration of the European Second Generation (TIES 2007-08)” from Austria, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland. The sample consisted of 4,761 respondents aged 18 to 35, 49.5 percent of whom were children of Turkish migrants born in Europe and 51.5 percent belonged to the respective non-migrant comparison groups. Unlike in other surveys, the question regarding attitudes toward abortion in the TIES questionnaire distinguished between “medical” and “non-medical” reasons for abortion, with the possible answers being “never”, “in specific cases” and “always”. We carried out multinomial logistic regression analyses and investigated three research questions: 1) Departing from assimilation theory, we examined whether the attitudes of migrant descendants differed from those of their non-migrant counterparts. Our results show that both groupings under study expressed a range of attitudes, and that abortion for medical reasons was more accepted than abortion for non-medical reasons. However, second-generation Turks were more likely than the natives to say that they would never accept abortion. 2) We investigated the extent to which the societal climate and the integration context of the respondents influenced their attitudes toward abortion, while assuming that we would find cross-country variation in these attitudes. Our results reveal that among natives, levels of acceptance of abortion are lowest in Germany and highest in Sweden and France. We found a similar country pattern for women and men of the second Turkish generation. 3) We explored the degree to which the respondents’ family contexts (childhood backgrounds as well as current socio-demographic variables) influenced their attitudes toward abortion. While these factors partially explained the variation within the Turkish second generation and within the native comparison group, the country differences remained significant. We conclude that attitudes toward abortion in the Turkish second generation are influenced by their family backgrounds, but also by their socialization experiences in European receiving countries. These findings suggest that cultural assimilation processes are occurring, but not to the point where the attitudes of migrant descendants have converged with the attitudes of natives in the respective destination country. * This article belongs to a special issue on migrant fertility.

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“…For many other groups, however, such as South Asians in Great Britain or Turks in the Netherlands, rates of mixing are low – around 10% in many cases. Concomitantly, rates of marriage to partners from the homeland have been high, >50% for second‐generation women from such groups as British Bangladeshis and Pakistanis and Dutch Moroccans and Turks ( e.g ., Muttarak and Heath, ; Hamel et al ., ). As the examples we have cited suggest, religious difference from the mainstream is an additional complication here.…”

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Comparing Immigrant Integration in North America and Western Europe: How much do the Grand Narratives Tell Us?

Alba

Foner

2014

International Migration Review

113

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In comparing different countries, studies often seek to account for the success of immigrant integration, or lack of it, in a small number of “grand ideas,” such as nationally specific “models” of integration, which attempt to provide overarching explanations for cross‐national differences and similarities. This article evaluates five grand ideas in light of our study examining how four European (Britain, France, Germany, and the Netherlands) and two North American (U.S., Canada) countries are meeting the challenges of integrating immigrants and their second‐generation children across a variety of domains from the labor market, to the educational system, to the polity. We conclude that while some of the grand ideas help to illuminate patterns of integration in particular domains, none provides a sufficiently encompassing explanation – and each has significant failings. Moreover, none of these ideas highlights all of the features that we argue are critical, although these do not boil down to one “grand narrative.” These features are the characteristics or qualities that immigrants bring with them when they move to Europe or North America; demographic and other social and economic trends there; and, perhaps most important, historically rooted social, political, and economic institutions in each receiving society that create barriers as well as bridges to integration and inclusion.

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7. Union formation and partner choice

Cited by 12 publications

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Living arrangements of adult children of immigrants in selected European countries

Living arrangements of adult children of immigrants in selected European countries

Attitudes toward Abortion for Medical and Non-medical Reasons among the Turkish Second Generation in Europe – The Role of the Family and Societal Contexts

Comparing Immigrant Integration in North America and Western Europe: How much do the Grand Narratives Tell Us?

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