Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t: The Challenges of Including and Comparing the Children of Immigrants in European Survey Data

Lessard-Phillips, Laurence; Galandini, Silvia; Valk, Helga De; Fibbi, Rosita

doi:10.1007/978-94-024-1141-6_2

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“…Furthermore, we include in the analysis non-migrants (or "stayers") in the country of origin. Although various researchers have recommended this approach (Schoenmaeckers et al 1999;Glick 2010;Lessard-Phillips et al 2017), it has been implemented only in a few European studies due to data constraints (Nauck 2007;White 2011;Baizán et al 2014;Krapf/Wolf 2015;Baykara-Krumme/Milewski 2017;Klimek 2017;Wolf/Mulder 2018).…”

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Fertility Intentions and Views on Gender Roles: Russian Women in Estonia from an Origin-destination Perspective

Puur

Vseviov

Abuladze

2019

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In this article we investigate fertility intentions of Russian women in Estonia from an origin-destination perspective. Russian migrants to Estonia and their descendants are compared with women in the sending and host countries in order to identify similarities and differences in intended transitions to first, second and third births. The study is based on the Estonian and Russian Generations and Gender Surveys, which were conducted in 2004/2005, and employs logistic regression models. The dependent variables are intentions to become a mother, to have a second child, or to have a third child. The hypotheses for the study are mainly derived from the adaptation, cultural maintenance, and selection (characteristics) perspectives. We also incorporate attitudes towards gender roles into the models, which have proven to be a salient factor in shaping childbearing intentions, but have seldom been considered in studies of migrant fertility.Our results lend support to both the adaptation and cultural maintenance perspectives. In accord with the latter, the similarity between the childbearing intentions of Russian migrants and their descendants in Estonia and those of their counterparts in Russia suggests that socialisation to the ethnic subculture has prevailed over the influence of the host society. We attribute this outcome to contextual features that have retarded integration processes. By contrast, we observe that proficiency in the host country language, residence in areas where the host population constitutes a large majority and having a native partner significantly contribute to the adaptation of migrants’ intentions to have another child to those of the host population. These results provide support to the adaptation argument. Finally, our study reveals a positive association between egalitarian views on gender roles and women’s intentions to have another child. However, variation in gender role attitudes accounts for a relatively minor part of the difference in intended fertility between the groups addressed in this study.* This article belongs to a special issue on migrant fertility.

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Fertility Intentions and Views on Gender Roles: Russian Women in Estonia from an Origin-destination Perspective

Puur

Vseviov

Abuladze

2019

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“…Defining the second generation as a category in a quantitative survey is a tricky task (Lessard-Phillips et al, 2017). The LCS includes descendants of parents who have grown up in Switzerland as well as descendants of parents who migrated to Switzerland.…”

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The LIVES-FORS cohort survey: A longitudinal diversified sample of young adults who have grown up in Switzerland

Spini

Morselli

Elcheroth

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Longitudinal and Life Course Studies

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The LIVES-FORS Cohort Study (LCS) is a longitudinal annual survey following a cohort of young adults born between 1988 and 1997 who grew up in Switzerland (initial N = 1,691). The LCS was launched in 2013 and complements the Swiss Household Panel (SHP) by overrepresenting the second generation of immigrants ('secondos'). The principal aim of the study is to observe the transition into adulthood with a focus on the life course and on vulnerability processes, comparing participants whose parents arrived in Switzerland as adults to participants whose parents have grown up in Switzerland. The LCS provides rich data both on the factual (such as education, employment and financial situation) and on the self-judgement (wellbeing, personality and health, for example) dimensions of respondents' lives. The first wave of the LCS used a life-history calendar to collect information on each respondent's past life trajectory. In this first wave, several life trajectories were investigated (residence, cohabitation, couple's relationship, family, activities and health). This paper provides an overview of the LCS with a specific focus on the first four waves (the last data were released in December 2017).

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“…This is why studies of second-generation immigrants tend to homogenise situations that could be distinct. Recent literature has tended to construct typologies of individuals with immigrant parentage (Heath, Rothon, and Kilpi 2008;Lessard-Phillips et al 2015). Such typologies help to understand immigrant integration within the population (Lessard-Phillips et al 2015;Rumbaut 2005).…”

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“…Such research is still relatively young in Europe (De Valk and Milewski 2011). On the one hand, second-generation immigrants have in many cases not yet reached the end of their reproductive age; on the other hand, given the difficulty of identifying second-generation immigrants in the European surveys, establishing groups for meaningful comparison is challenging Lessard-Phillips et al 2015;Kulu and Milewski 2007). However, studying the fertility behaviour of individuals in their late 20s or early 30s is, in many cases, indicative of completed fertility (Kreyenfeld and Andersson 2014).…”

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First and second births among immigrants and their descendants in Switzerland

Rojas¹,

Bernardi²,

Schmid³

2018

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Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t: The Challenges of Including and Comparing the Children of Immigrants in European Survey Data

Cited by 14 publications

References 51 publications

Fertility Intentions and Views on Gender Roles: Russian Women in Estonia from an Origin-destination Perspective

Fertility Intentions and Views on Gender Roles: Russian Women in Estonia from an Origin-destination Perspective

The LIVES-FORS cohort survey: A longitudinal diversified sample of young adults who have grown up in Switzerland

First and second births among immigrants and their descendants in Switzerland

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